Linear Chaos for the Quick- Thinking- Driver model

Abstract

In recent years, the topic of car-following has experimented an increased importance in tra c engineering and safety research. This has become a very interesting topic because of the development of driverless cars. Driving models which describe the interaction between adjacent vehicles in the same lane have a big interest in simulation modeling, such as the Quick-Thinking- Driver model. A non-linear version of it can be given using the logistic map, and then chaos appears. We show that an in nite-dimensional version of the linear model presents a chaotic behaviour using the same approach as for studying chaos of death models of cell growth.