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Abstract

The microscopic car-following model by Bando et al. [1-4] is extended by incorporating multi-vehicle interactions. It is shown that the reaction to more than one vehicle ahead leads to a stabilization of the dynamical behavior, i.e. the stable region increases. Still the fundamental macroscopic properties of traffic, free flow and congested flow, are described. More important, due to the multi-anticipative driving behavior driving in narrow platoons is forced such that a third fundamental property of traffic flow, the so-called synchronized flow [5], is modeled as well.

PACS. 64.60.Fr Equilibrium properties near critical points, critical exponents - 05.70.Fh Phase transitions: general aspects - 47.20.Ky Nonlinearity (including bifurcation theory)

Received: 23 March 1998 / Accepted: 3 August 1998

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