Overtaking Behavior Simulation of Vehicle Platoon in Face-to-Face Traffic Flow

Vehicle Platoon is the important technique for increasing the traffic capacity of road network safely. Our research group has been studying the velocity control model of the vehicle in the vehicle platoon. Previous studies focus on the control of vehicle in the platoon in order to make the platoon stable. The aim of this study is to control the vehicle velocity when a vehicle platoon overtakes a frontal vehicle without colliding with a vehicle traveling in the other lane. The velocity control model is defined as the vehicle following model. The validity of the model is confirmed in the computer simulation and the experiment of LEGO MINDSTORM. The results show that comparison of simulation and experiment shows that the experiment results agree well with the simulation results.