Finally, if a vehicle has a headway between
and
, it is in the car-following regime. In this case
the acceleration rate is calculated based on Herman's general
car-following model [Herman et
al.(1959)]:
where
,
and
are model parameters.
,
,
are used for accelerating (
), and
,
,
for decelerating (
) cases. Default values for these parameters are
based on [Subramanian(1996)] and listed
in Table C.8.