Study on stability of traffic flow for cooperative driving control

In the literature of traffic flow theory, the research on the effect on stability of traffic flow for cooperative driving control possesses an important significance. However, presently the the study on the problem is unsatisfactory because it is difficult to determine the impact qualitatively or quantitatively in real traffic experiment. In this paper, some efforts have been made for better understanding the effect on stability of traffic flow for cooperative driving control by investigating the stability for lattice traffic models, which are presented here by incorporating motion information of cars preceding. From linear stability analysis and direct simulations validation, we learn some properties of the effect on the stability and congestion waves by using the information of many other cars. First, cooperative driving behavior of many cars preceding can efficiently stabilize the traffic flow. Second, cooperative driving behavior of the cars nearby plays a prominent role in stability. Third, when the car number participating in cooperative driving policy exceeds a certain value, the congestion waves will disappear.