Physics of Autonomous Driving based on Three-Phase Traffic Theory
| Autor: | Kerner, Boris S. |
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| Rok vydání: | 2017 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. E 97, 042303 (2018); in: R. A. Meyers (ed.), Encyclopedia of Complexity and Systems Science |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevE.97.042303; |
| Popis: | We have revealed physical features of autonomous driving in the framework of the three-phase traffic theory for which there is no fixed time headway to the preceding vehicle. A comparison with the classical model approach to autonomous driving for which an autonomous driving vehicle tries to reach a fixed (desired or "optimal") time headway to the preceding vehicle has been made. It turns out that autonomous driving in the framework of the three-phase traffic theory exhibits the following advantages in comparison with the classical model of autonomous driving: (i) The absence of string instability. (ii) Considerably smaller speed disturbances at road bottlenecks. (iii) Autonomous driving vehicles based on the three-phase theory decrease the probability of traffic breakdown at the bottleneck in mixed traffic flow consisting of human driving and autonomous driving vehicles; on the contrary, even a single autonomous driving vehicle based on the classical approach can provoke traffic breakdown at the bottleneck in mixed traffic flow. Comment: 5 pages, 4 figures |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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