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SUMMARY:How do Humans Drive a Car? - Modelling Accelerations and Discrete-
 Choice Situations in Freeway and City Traffic
DTSTART:20101125T121500
DTSTAMP:20260407T051322Z
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CATEGORIES:Conferences - Seminars
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Martin Treiber\, TU Dresden\nFor an experienced human dr
 iver\, the "operational" driving tasks seem to be easy: After all\, one us
 ually has no problem to accelerate or brake in order to reach a desired sp
 eed\, or keeping sufficient space to avoid crashes. The same applies when 
 deciding if it is safe to enter a priority road\, to overtake\, or to pass
  a "yellow" traffic light that will be "red" in the next few seconds. When
  attempting to cast this driving behaviour into equations of a mathematica
 l model\, however\, one feels more like a driving beginner: It is all but 
 easy to find models that reproduce the human driving behaviour! In this ta
 lk\, I will discuss "car-following models" for the accelerations\, and "de
 cision models" for discrete-choice situations such as lane changing or ent
 ering a priority road. The models can be parametrized to represent driving
  behaviour such as timid/aggressive\, experienced/unexperienced\, or fast 
 vs. relaxed. One model has been implemented into a semi-automatic car\, an
 d the author has been driven with it on public freeways. I will report abo
 ut this experience. Fially\, by means of simulations\, I will show how ext
 ernal measures (such as speed limits)\, and the drivers themselves influen
 ce the probability of traffic breakdown and the development of stop-and-go
  traffic.\n\nMartin Treiber [Dr. rer. nat.\, 1996\, University of Bayreuth
 \, Germany] is at the Departement of Transport and Traffic Sciences\, Dres
 den University of Technology\, Germany. He teaches traffic modelling & sim
 ulation\, econometrics\, and statistics. His research interests include ve
 hicular traffic dynamics and modelling\, traffic data analysis & state est
 imation\, and driver ass istance systems. This includes several public and
  commercial projects. He developed a ra nge of simple yet realistic traffi
 c models and runs the popular web site www.traffic-simulation.de . He has 
 over 60 peer-reviewed publications and currently is writing a textbo ok on
  traffic modeling and simulation.
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