1) I agree that 4.5m/s is probably to high for desired deceleration and
more appropriate for a max deceleration. This is simply the historical
baggage of the Krauss car-following model which does not distinguish
between desired and max decel. Feel free to roll your own car following
model (-:
2) The documetation at
http://sumo-sim.org/wiki/Definition_of_Vehicles,_Vehicle_Types,_and_Routes#Car-Following_Modelshas
been updated
3) Yes. extreme values are currently possible. It would be best to
calibrate the cut-off using a real-world data set. Do you think it needs be
made configurable?

regards,
Jakob


2014-04-22 13:55 GMT+02:00 Pieter Loof <[email protected]>:

> Hello,
>
> Thanks for the quick reactions again. Some reactions from my side on this:
>
> 1) Ok, I get it. So it is better to use a realistic average value.
> However, the default values are extremely high then, since realistic
> averages for acceleration and deceleration are below 2 m/s/s.
> 2) The documentation of vehicle definitions says "The drivers reaction
> time in seconds", so that is a bit misleading then. If I understand well,
> the distance to the leading vehicle depends on both the speed and tau, so
> the precise value of tau matters for this distance. However, reactions take
> x time steps, with x = ceil(tau / step-size)? So, 1 second time steps and a
> tau of 1 means a reaction takes 1 time step and for a tau of 1.1 a reaction
> would take 2 time steps?
> 3) Hmm, a speed factor of 0.2 is very low. It would make more sense to cap
> the distribution such that any drawn value cannot differ more from the mean
> than two standard deviations. So it is currently unlikely but possible that
> a vehicle receives a speed factor of 10 such that it always wants to drive
> at it's physical maximum speed?
>
> Best regards,
> Pieter
>
>
> On 22 April 2014 12:51, Jakob Erdmann <[email protected]> wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>> 1) Using the default car-following model, vehicles tend to drive as fast
>> as possible and then brake as hard as possible (using 'decel'). This means
>> they will brake with 'decel' at the latest possible moment when approaching
>> the jam. Thus 'decel' functions more like a desired deceleration.
>> Unfortunately, there is yet not concept for discriminating between desired
>> and maximum deceleration.
>>
>> 2) Tau is the desired time gap to the follower which may be interpreted
>> as a consequence of a drivers reaction time. However, reaction time is
>> fundamentally limited by simulation step size. This why you will get a
>> warning when using tau < step-size (it may lead to collisions). Also, when
>> setting tau > step-size, drivers will still adapt their behavior during
>> every simulation step. There are plans for adding a new car following model
>> which allows reaction times above the simulation step size to be modeled (
>> http://sumo-sim.org/trac.wsgi/ticket/1151)
>>
>> 3) A normal distribution with expectation X may return any real value.
>> However, we wish to avoid very low speedFactors so we always return values
>> of at least 0.2. (The value in the wiki documentation was wrong and is now
>> fixed).
>>
>> regards,
>> Jakob
>>
>>
>> 2014-04-22 12:03 GMT+02:00 Pieter Loof <[email protected]>:
>>
>>> Hi all,
>>>
>>> Just a few short questions to make sure that I interpret the vehicle
>>> parameters correctly:
>>>
>>> 1. 'decel' is the maximum deceleration of vehicles, so the average value
>>> will be lower. Suppose a vehicle drives towards the end of a traffic jam,
>>> how large is the deceleration it will apply compared to this maximum
>>> value?
>>> 2. 'tau' is the reaction time. Suppose we have simulation steps of 1
>>> second
>>> and a tau of 0.8, are vehicles then able to start reacting on a fraction
>>> in
>>> between two simulation steps?
>>> 3. 'speedDev' is the deviation for drawing a desired speed factor from a
>>> normal distribution. The documentation says "The resulting values are
>>> capped at 0.1 to prevent extreme dawdling." I don't understand this
>>> sentence, can someone explain this?
>>>
>>> Best regards,
>>> Pieter
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