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Non-lane-discipline-based car-following model incorporating the electronic throttle dynamics under connected environment

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This study proposes a new car-following model considering the effects of the electronic throttle dynamics to capture the characteristics of connected autonomous vehicular traffic flow without lane discipline. In particular, the proposed model incorporates the effects of both electronic throttle opening angle and lateral gap into the traffic flow model by assuming that the information on electronic throttle dynamics is shared by surrounding vehicles through vehicle-to-vehicle communications. Stability of the proposed model is analyzed using the perturbation method. Numerical experiments analyze three scenarios: start, stop and evolution processes for the scenarios of lane-discipline-based full velocity difference (FVD) model, non-lane-based full velocity difference car-following (NLBCF) model and non-lane-discipline and throttle-based car-following model, respectively. Results from numerical experiments illustrate that the proposed car-following model has a larger stale region compared with the FVD and NLBCF models. In addition, it also demonstrates that the proposed car-following model can better represent the characteristics of connected and autonomous vehicular traffic flow in terms of the responsiveness, smoothness and stability with respect to the position, velocity, acceleration/deceleration and space headway profiles.

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This work is jointly supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China under Grant 61773082,61304197 and 61503053, by the Key Project of Basic Science and Emerging Technology of Chongqing under Grant cstc2017jcyjBX0018, by the National Key Research and Development Program under Grant 2016YFB0100906 and the Doctoral Start-up Funds of CQUPT under Grant no. A2012-26.

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  1. Collaborative Innovation Center for Industrial Internet of Things, College of Automation, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, People’s Republic of China

    Yongfu Li, Hang Zhao, Taixiong Zheng & Huizong Feng

  2. Research Center of System Theory and Application, Chongqing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Chongqing, 400065, People’s Republic of China

    Fenglan Sun

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Li, Y., Zhao, H., Zheng, T. et al. Non-lane-discipline-based car-following model incorporating the electronic throttle dynamics under connected environment. Nonlinear Dyn 90, 2345–2358 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11071-017-3807-4

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