Mimicking human driving behaviour for realistic simulation of traffic flow. (13th October 2010)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Cai, Hua; Lin, Yingzi; Cheng, Bo
• Is Part Of: International journal of simulation and process modelling. Volume 6:Number 2(2010)
• Page Start: 126
• Page End: 136
• Publication Date: 2010-10-13
• Subjects: driving simulators -- driver modelling -- autonomous vehicle simulation -- traffic flow simulation -- autonomous vehicles -- human-in-the-loop simulation -- driver-driver interaction; Management -- Computer simulation -- Periodicals; Mathematical models -- Periodicals; Operations research -- Periodicals; Simulation methods -- Periodicals; 003.05
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1740-2123

Abstract

Simulated autonomous vehicles running on simplified driver models may lead to some drawbacks because of the very limited 'human-like' errors and driver?driver interactive capability. This study proposes a simulation framework of realistic traffic flow that contains several types of autonomous vehicles. The vehicles operated by ideal driver models simulate the traffic flow in the far-field areas while the vehicles operated by cognitive driver models simulate the near-field areas owing to more 'human-like' behaviour. Extended human-in-the-loop simulation uses real human drivers to enhance active driver-driver interaction. This simulation framework can be used to improve the fidelity of driving simulators.