Implementing driver´s behaviours to evaluate how to offer road information

An information offering system in a highway attracts attention as a method of a course instruction to an effective driver for a current traffic jam problem. However, when the effect of the course instruction by these information offering is evaluated from driver´s behaviour etc, it is difficult to acquire the behaviour data of an actual driver. Therefore, the system which virtually evaluates the effect is needed. Then, the computer simulation is used before the method of inducing the route is introduced into an actual road. In order to evaluate the effect virtually, the driver model to imitate the behaviour of the driver on the simulation is needed. In the article, we suggest a driver model for the evaluation of the effect of these informations given to a driver. We focus on the number of cars in the circumference that can be recognized by a driver as well as the distance between the car in front and the driver´s car itself. We conducted simulations on various combinations of the above two factors. We compared the results of the simulations with a previous studies on driver´s perception of traffic jam. It turned out that both studies yielded reasonably similar results.