Development of Vehicle-following Behavior for Automated Vehicle Systems

Automation of vehicular traffic in different forms has been considered by many people. It offers many advantages. Vehicular traffic dynamics for automated vehicle systems are developed here using calculus of variations and optimal control theory. Using such an optimization approach, the relationship of the traffic dynamics developed here and the traffic dynamics which have been used extensively before for non-automated systems is also shown. Such an approach considers multiple objective functions for the system.