How aggressive a driver is? - A quantitative analysis
Abstract
Consider a bottleneck in a road through which only one car can pass through. Suppose that at a time the car passing will have the most aggressive driver in queue and that the aggressiveness of an individual is measured by an attribute where the quantity varies randomly from person to person in the range 0 to 1, is the time for which the driver is waiting in the bottleneck and the parameter is the same for all individuals. Thus, we assume that the aggressiveness depends on the nature of the individual and increases with waiting time in a traffic jam. In support of the algebraic form of , we show (numerically and analytically) that our hypothesis implies that the probability of waiting for a time will be with the value of fixed by . Empirical studies confirm such variation in with an exponent of 3.0 to 3.5 in two different cities of India and 1.5 for a traffic intersection in Germany. There is a possibility that the parameter (and hence ) is characteristic of a geographical region.
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@article{arxiv.1804.10965,
title = {How aggressive a driver is? - A quantitative analysis},
author = {Subinay Dasgupta and Sitabhra Sinha},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1804.10965},
year = {2018}
}
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4 pages, 1 figure