title: Coupled map car-following model and its delayed-feedback control.
abstract: This paper proposes a coupled map car-following traffic model, which describes a dynamical behavior of a group of road vehicles running in a single lane without overtaking. This model consists of a lead vehicle and following vehicles, which have a piecewise linear optimal velocity function. When the lead-vehicle speed is varied, we can observe a traffic jam in the group of the vehicles. We derive a condition under which the traffic jam never occurs in our model. Furthermore, in order to suppress the traffic jam, for each vehicle we use a dynamic version of decentralized delayed-feedback control proposed in [Konishi, Hirai, and Kokame, Phys. Rev. E 58, 3055 (1998)], and provide a systematic procedure for designing the controller.
authors.affiliation: Department of Electrical and Electronic Systems, Osaka Prefecture University, 1-1 Gakuen-cho, Sakai, Osaka 599-8531, Japan. konishi@ecs.ees.osakafu-u.ac.jp
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Konishi
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kokame
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Hirata