A new car-following model with consideration of inter-vehicle communication

In this paper, we construct a new car-following model with inter-vehicle communication (IVC) to study the driving behavior under an accident. The numerical results show that the proposed model can qualitatively describe the effects of IVC on each vehicle’s speed, acceleration, movement trail, and headway under an accident and that the new model can overcome the full velocity difference (FVD) model’s shortcoming that collisions occur under an accident, which illustrates that the new model can better describe the driving behavior under an accident than the FVD model.