Effect of looking backward on traffic flow in an extended multiple car-following model

In this paper, a new car-following model is proposed by incorporating the backward looking effect under certain conditions and multiple information of preceding cars in traffic flow. And the neutral stability condition of this model can be obtained by using the linear stability theory. Numerical simulation shows that the proposed model is theoretically an improvement over previous ones. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.