Modeling of inter vehicular gaps and driver behavior in heterogeneous traffic stream with weak lane discipline

Abstract

The traffic stream of developing countries like India is different than that of the developed world due to two peculiar phenomena i Weak lane discipline random placement of vehicles over entire width of the road and ii Presence of heterogeneous or mixed traffic or large number of vehicle types In such traffic conditions reaction of drivers is not just in the form of acceleration or deceleration but also simultaneous veering or lateral movement Thus lateral and longitudinal gap maint