Criteria for convective versus absolute string instability in car-following models
Ward, Jonathan A. and Wilson, R. Eddie (2011) Criteria for convective versus absolute string instability in car-following models. Proceedings of The Royal Society A Mathematical Physical and Engineering Sciences (doi:10.1098/rspa.2010.0437 ).
Download
Full text not available from this repository.
Description/Abstract
The linear stability properties of car-following models of highway traffic are analysed. A general family of models is introduced and the subsequent analysis developed in terms of its partial derivatives. Two measures of wave propagation, namely (i) the group velocity and (ii) the signal velocity, are introduced and computed. These measures are used to classify how instability propagates disturbances, measured relative to the frame of the road along which the vehicles drive. Detector data suggest that disturbances should propagate only in an upstream direction (convective upstream instability), and it is shown how to parametrize models to agree with data and avoid unrealistic downstream propagation (absolute and convective downstream instability).
| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| ISSNs: | 1364-5021 (print) 1471-2946 (electronic) |
| Keywords: | highway traffic, car-following models, instability, wave propagation |
| Subjects: | H Social Sciences > HE Transportation and Communications T Technology > TE Highway engineering. Roads and pavements |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Civil Engineering and the Environment |
| Item ID: | 184665 |
| Date Deposited: | 06 May 2011 10:20 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Aug 2011 04:43 |
| Contributors: | Ward, Jonathan A. (Author) Wilson, R. Eddie (Author) |
| Date: | 20 August 2011 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/184665 |
Actions (login required)
 |
View Item |
