On the Stability Analysis of Mixed Traffic With Vehicles Under Car-Following and Bilateral Control

Abstract

In this paper, we study mixed traffic flow in which some cars are under car-following control and others are under bilateral control. We also provide the necessary (modular string) stability condition for this type of mixed traffic, which can be viewed as an extension of the condition for pure car-following control-based traffic. This necessary stability condition provides some indication of how the introduction of self-driving cars (under bilateral control) will affect today's traffic.