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