{"title":"Modified Gipps model: a collision-free car following model","authors":"Dhwani Shah , Chris Lee , Yong Hoon Kim","doi":"10.1080/15472450.2023.2289149","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Car following (CF) models are used in microscopic traffic simulation tools to help assess the effects of a new road design or to assess the effect of change in traffic flow. In 1981, Gipps developed a collision avoidance CF model using the Newtonian laws of motion to describe the motion of each vehicle in a stream of traffic. It is one of the most widely used CF models in both research and practice. Although it is claimed that the Gipps model produces collision-free results, the model produces a collision when the intention of the following vehicle is to brake harder than the perceived deceleration of lead vehicle. For the ease of simulations, a traffic simulation tool is expected to not show unrealistic crashes. This study was carried out to make the Gipps model collision-free in all conditions. It first highlights the conditions where the original Gipps model produces a collision. Then the study derives an equation for a collision-free Gipps CF model. This modified Gipps CF model produces collision-free results that always maintain a safe spacing with the lead vehicle.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"29 1","pages":"Pages 18-31"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8000,"publicationDate":"2025-01-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","FirstCategoryId":"5","ListUrlMain":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/org/science/article/pii/S154724502300110X","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"TRANSPORTATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
Car following (CF) models are used in microscopic traffic simulation tools to help assess the effects of a new road design or to assess the effect of change in traffic flow. In 1981, Gipps developed a collision avoidance CF model using the Newtonian laws of motion to describe the motion of each vehicle in a stream of traffic. It is one of the most widely used CF models in both research and practice. Although it is claimed that the Gipps model produces collision-free results, the model produces a collision when the intention of the following vehicle is to brake harder than the perceived deceleration of lead vehicle. For the ease of simulations, a traffic simulation tool is expected to not show unrealistic crashes. This study was carried out to make the Gipps model collision-free in all conditions. It first highlights the conditions where the original Gipps model produces a collision. Then the study derives an equation for a collision-free Gipps CF model. This modified Gipps CF model produces collision-free results that always maintain a safe spacing with the lead vehicle.
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The Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems is devoted to scholarly research on the development, planning, management, operation and evaluation of intelligent transportation systems. Intelligent transportation systems are innovative solutions that address contemporary transportation problems. They are characterized by information, dynamic feedback and automation that allow people and goods to move efficiently. They encompass the full scope of information technologies used in transportation, including control, computation and communication, as well as the algorithms, databases, models and human interfaces. The emergence of these technologies as a new pathway for transportation is relatively new.
The Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems is especially interested in research that leads to improved planning and operation of the transportation system through the application of new technologies. The journal is particularly interested in research that adds to the scientific understanding of the impacts that intelligent transportation systems can have on accessibility, congestion, pollution, safety, security, noise, and energy and resource consumption.
The journal is inter-disciplinary, and accepts work from fields of engineering, economics, planning, policy, business and management, as well as any other disciplines that contribute to the scientific understanding of intelligent transportation systems. The journal is also multi-modal, and accepts work on intelligent transportation for all forms of ground, air and water transportation. Example topics include the role of information systems in transportation, traffic flow and control, vehicle control, routing and scheduling, traveler response to dynamic information, planning for ITS innovations, evaluations of ITS field operational tests, ITS deployment experiences, automated highway systems, vehicle control systems, diffusion of ITS, and tools/software for analysis of ITS.