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car-following model: a standalone construct

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Transportation engineering

a model in which each driver's acceleration responds to the speed and gap of the vehicle ahead.

In transportation engineering, car-following model refers to a model in which each driver's acceleration responds to the speed and gap of the vehicle ahead. This meaning comes from Gazis (1961) in Operations Research.[1]

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References

Gazis, D. C., Herman, R., & Rothery, R. W. (1961). Nonlinear Follow-the-Leader Models of Traffic Flow. Operations Research, 9(4), 545-567. https://doi.org/10.1287/opre.9.4.545

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