Abstract
Based on historical records, driving in hazardous weather conditions is one of the most serious causes that lead to fatal accidents on roads in general and in United Arab Emirates (UAE) highways in particular. One solution to improve road safety is to equip vehicles and infrastructure with connected and smart devices and convert them into autonomous vehicles. Before deploying a concrete solution to the field, it must be validated by simulation, and more specifically by agent-based simulation. In this paper, we propose to implement the Reaction Time-Based Collaborative Velocity Control (RT-CVC) model that was implemented in autonomous cars into an agent-based simulator. This model is compared to the Intelligent Driver Model (IDM), which is one of the standard longitudinal driving behaviors in simulation environments. The experimental results show that RT-CVC generates traffic flows with fewer vehicle collisions and shorter travel times. This positive analysis is balanced by the fact that RT-CVC is designed for autonomous cars, and IDM is designed to model human-drive decisions. Using RT-CVC for modeling a human driver may be counter productive in simulation experiments.
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