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New Markov Chain Model Outperforms Traditional Car-Following Approaches

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Researchers have developed a new car-following model called Markov Chain Car-Following (MC-CF) that uses an empirical probabilistic sampling approach. This model represents state transitions as a Markov process and predicts behavior by randomly sampling accelerations from empirical distributions. Evaluations on the Waymo Open Motion Dataset (WOMD) show that MC-CF variants outperform traditional physics-based models and are competitive with modern data-driven approaches. The model also demonstrated cross-domain transferability on the Naturalistic Phoenix (PHX) dataset and showed scalability in microscopic ring road simulations, significantly reducing collisions in most tested scenarios. AI

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New Markov Chain Model Outperforms Traditional Car-Following Approaches

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  1. arXiv cs.LG TIER_1 English(EN) · Sungyong Chung, Yanlin Zhang, Nachuan Li, Dana Monzer, Alireza Talebpour ·

    An Empirical Markov Chain Car-Following (MC-CF) Model

    arXiv:2603.27909v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Car-following behavior is fundamental to traffic flow theory, yet traditional models often fail to capture the stochasticity of naturalistic driving. This paper proposes an empirical probabilistic sampling approach to car-…

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