Psychological Traffic Simulation System on a Three-Line Highway

In recent years, the rapid progress of information technology in automobiles has been bringing an increasing attention to a fully automatic driving system. The realization of the automatic driving system requires sufficient experiments and analyses, which need enormous time and cost when these are carried out using real cars because of the risk of having serious accidents. A traffic simulation system, which is proposed in this paper using psychological aspects of drivers, reduces time and cost in experiment and analyses. The traffic simulation system has three psychological types: aggressive; careful; and situation-dependent. Psychological Traffic Simulation has three psychological types: aggressive; careful; and situation-dependent. Psychological Traffic Simulation System (PTSS) has been realized using Netlogo and has capability of analyzing traffic jams on a three-line highway. Results of experiment and analyses using PTSS are also described in this paper.修士(理学)法政大学 (Hosei University