Patent ID: 8738336

Claim:
A method of simulating traffic, the method comprising: generating a traffic model comprising a leading vehicle and a following vehicle; identifying, in the traffic model, a perceived gap between the leading vehicle and the following vehicle; calculating a current velocity of the following vehicle at a current time; selecting, as an output, a minimum of a set { Vg n ⁡ ( t ) T * , v n ⁡ ( t ) + a , V } , wherein V corresponds to a maximum velocity of the following vehicle, g n (t) corresponds to the perceived gap, T′ corresponds to a specified time parameter, v n (t) corresponds to the current velocity of the following vehicle, and a corresponds to an allowable maximum velocity change in a single time step; and calculating, by a processor, a subsequent velocity of the following vehicle at a subsequent time step based on the maximum velocity of the following vehicle, the perceived gap, and the specified time parameter.