Modeling overtaking behavior in virtual reality traffic simulation system

Overtaking behavior in traffic is complex and the traffic information is heterogeneous, current researches on virtual reality traffic simulation have paid little attention on modeling overtaking behavior, considering the different traffic situation. In this paper, an intelligent vehicle model is proposed to better understandings of traffic situation and to assist overtaking behaviors analysis in traffic simulation. Then overtaking behavior model based on the intelligent vehicle is introduced in detail, the lane changing behavior model is analyzed because it is the base of overtaking behavior. Besides, overtaking behavior is realized by the coordination mechanism of agent-based multi-controller, which incorporates different traffic situation to explore overtaking behavioral mechanism in traffic. The preliminary results show the effectiveness of our method to simulate overtaking behavior in virtual reality traffic simulation system.