Provably safe and human-like car-following behaviors: Part 1. Analysis of phases and dynamics in standard models

Wen-Long Jin

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Provably safe and human-like car-following behaviors: Part 1. Analysis of phases and dynamics in standard models

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Pith's one-line read Standard car-following models fail safe and human-like tests

desk verdict A useful phase-plane audit of car-following models, but the IDM backward-travel claim overreaches from a local linearization to a global conclusion. read the letter →

arxiv 2505.09987 v1 pith:DUZTHJJO submitted 2025-05-15 eess.SY cs.ROcs.SYphysics.soc-ph

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keywords safedrivingprincipleshuman-likecar-followingspeed-spacingphaseplaneNewellsimplifiedmodelIntelligentDriverGippsboundedaccelerationanddecelerationstationarylead-vehicleproblem

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The pith

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The reading

This paper builds a multi-phase dynamical-systems test for car-following models and uses it to ask whether standard models can be both provably safe and human-like. The answer it defends is no: the Intelligent Driver Model brakes far too early near a stopped leader and then briefly moves backward; Newell's model, when given the comfort deceleration bound, can drive through the stop and reverse; and the Gipps model loses meaning for spacings between the minimum and comfort jam gaps. The test is a phase portrait in the speed-spacing plane for the stationary lead-vehicle problem, and it shows exactly which safety or human-likeness constraint each model drops. A companion paper uses the same phase analysis to build a model that meets all the principles.

What carries the argument

The central machinery is the speed-spacing phase plane, $(v,z)$, applied to the stationary lead-vehicle problem. A model's update rule is seen as a min/max choice among constraints, and each active constraint defines a phase: bounded acceleration, equilibrium cruising, equilibrium acceleration, equilibrium deceleration, or bounded deceleration. Drawing the phase portrait and the vector field shows whether trajectories stay above the comfort jam spacing $\zeta$ and minimum jam spacing $\zeta'$, whether speed stays nonnegative, and whether the braking profile respects the safe stopping distance $B=v\tau' + v^2/(2\beta)$. This turns each model's safety behavior into a geometric property of its phase portrait.

What would settle it

Concretely, simulate the Intelligent Driver Model with the paper's parameters approaching a stationary leader from free-flow speed; if speed never becomes negative and braking begins no earlier than the safe stopping distance, the paper's two IDM claims are wrong. Similarly, if any parameter set within the stated comfort ranges lets the BDA-Newell model stop at a spacing above the minimum jam spacing without moving backward, the claim that bounded deceleration breaks Newell's model fails.

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Core claim

On its own terms, the discovery is that the stationary lead-vehicle problem, in which one vehicle approaches a leader that never moves, is a sharp discriminating test for car-following models. In the speed-spacing plane, the model's update rule splits into phases (bounded acceleration, equilibrium cruising, equilibrium acceleration, equilibrium deceleration, and bounded deceleration), and the phase portrait determines whether the trajectory respects the comfort jam spacing, the minimum jam spacing, and forward travel. For the Intelligent Driver Model, linearization around the stopped equilibrium gives a stable spiral, so the speed crosses below zero for every initial condition, and at free-flow speed the model brakes immediately even from arbitrarily long distances, giving stopping distances roughly 2.7 times the safe stopping distance. For the bounded-acceleration-and-deceleration extension of Newell's model (BDA-Newell), the comfort deceleration bound makes the follower overshoot the jam spacing unless the bound is raised to about 9.375 m/s², above the comfort range, so the model can violate the minimum jam spacing and forward-travel principles. For the Gipps model, the safe-stopping derivation keeps speed nonnegative and deceleration bounded, but the model is undefined for spacings between the comfort and minimum jam gaps, and aligning its fundamental diagram with the safe-stopping reaction time creates an inconsistent wave speed. The paper concludes that no model in this family simultaneously satisfies all the stated principles.

Load-bearing premise

The evaluation treats the paper's stated behavioral principles, with parameter values from ISO 15622 and the IDM literature (comfort spacing 7 m, minimum spacing 5 m, time gap 1.6 s, comfort deceleration 1.67 m/s²), as the definition of safe and human-like driving; if typical drivers brake later than the safe-stopping formula $B=v\tau' + v^2/(2\beta)$ or accept different comfort bounds, the IDM and Gipps critiques lose force.

Editorial extensions

If this is right

A car-following model intended for automated driving should be checked in the speed-spacing plane for the stationary lead-vehicle problem before deployment; the phase portrait shows whether it can collide or reverse direction.
Adaptive cruise control systems built on the Intelligent Driver Model will inherit its early braking and backward-creep behavior, which can create dilemma-zone conflicts at signalized intersections designed for human braking distances.
Adding a bounded-deceleration constraint to Newell's model is not enough by itself: the constraint must be coordinated with the jam-spacing and forward-travel principles, or the model stops too late and reverses.
The Gipps model's safe-stopping formula cannot be combined with a comfort jam spacing and a standard fundamental diagram without either ill-defined states or inconsistent shock-wave speeds.
A model that provably satisfies the paper's principles must manage braking as a multi-phase process rather than a single formula; the companion paper develops such a model.

Reading between the lines

Editorial extensions of the paper, not claims the author makes directly.

The same phase-plane test could be applied to other standard car-following models, and hidden violations of forward travel or braking distance are likely to appear wherever the model's update rule leaves one phase unconstrained.
The framework suggests a practical acceptance test for adaptive cruise control: record the phase trajectory during an emergency approach, and reject any model whose trajectory enters the negative-speed region or begins braking earlier than the safe stopping distance.
The empirical parameter values matter: if typical drivers comfortably use decelerations above 1.67 m/s², the 'human-like' bound could be relaxed and the BDA-Newell collision example would be mitigated, but then the model's safety margin shrinks.
The stationary-lead-vehicle analysis is the most conservative safety test; extending it to moving leaders that brake would make the safe stopping distance a function of the leader's speed and deceleration as well.

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Desk Editor's Note

read the letter

Worth a look if you care about car-following model evaluation. The paper builds a normative checklist of safe/human-like driving principles, derives Newell's model from those principles, and then audits IDM, Gipps, and bounded-deceleration Newell against the checklist. The phase-plane organization is the real contribution: it makes each model's failure mode visible and comparable rather than scattered across separate derivations.

What is genuinely new: the BDA-Newell analysis showing that adding a deceleration bound to Newell's model can violate minimum jam spacing and forward travel is a nice cautionary result. The simplified Gipps analytical solution near the comfort spacing is also clean and useful. The derivations are transparent, the notation is heavy but consistent, and there is no hidden curve-fitting or circular parameter estimation.

Now the soft spots, in proportion. The biggest one is the IDM backward-travel claim. The paper linearizes around the stopped equilibrium, finds a stable spiral, and concludes that speed becomes negative "regardless of the initial conditions." That does not follow from a local linear analysis. The linearization proves sign changes for trajectories that enter a sufficiently small neighborhood of the equilibrium; it says nothing about trajectories that start far away unless you add a global argument. The numerical replication of the Treiber et al. scenario does show backward travel in a realistic case, so the practical conclusion survives, but the universal claim is unsupported and should be softened or proven.

The abstract says "numerical simulations and empirical observations validate the theoretical insights." There are no empirical observations in this paper. That sentence needs to go or be backed with data. Minor but irritating.

Also, the BDA-Newell numerical example has an internal inconsistency: it assigns beta = 2 m/s^2, but the stopping-distance formula and the reported stop time of 18.0 s only make sense with beta = 1.67 m/s^2. This looks like a typo, but it is exactly the kind of thing a referee will catch.

The normative principles themselves are asserted rather than empirically grounded. The parameter values come from ISO 15622 and Treiber et al., which is defensible, but if human drivers brake later or use different comfort bounds, some of the critique loses force. The paper acknowledges this in passing but does not engage with it seriously.

Overall, the central framework holds up. The paper is aimed at traffic-flow theorists and ACC/ADAS control designers. It is not a field-shifter, but it is a solid, citable analysis with several genuinely useful observations. It deserves a serious referee, not a desk reject. My recommendation: send it to review, and ask the authors to fix the global IDM overclaim, correct the abstract, and sort out the BDA-Newell numbers.

Referee Report

3 major / 5 minor

Summary. The paper proposes a hierarchy of zeroth-, first-, and second-order principles for safe and human-like car following, derives Newell's simplified model from a subset of those principles, and then uses speed-spacing phase-plane analysis to evaluate bounded-acceleration/deceleration extensions of Newell, the Intelligent Driver Model (IDM), and a simplified Gipps model. It concludes that none of these standard models can simultaneously satisfy all stated principles, citing IDM backward travel and excessive braking distance, Gipps ill-defined spacings and fundamental-diagram inconsistency, and BDA-Newell violations of jam-spacing and forward-travel principles. Part 2 is announced as the construction of a new model that resolves these limitations.

Significance. The axiomatic framework is a genuine strength: the principles are stated explicitly, Newell's model is derived transparently from a subset of them, and the BDA-Newell counterexample is concrete and reproducible. The paper avoids fitted-parameter circularity, and the numerical replications of published IDM and Gipps scenarios are useful diagnostic illustrations. If the IDM critiques can be placed on rigorous footing, the paper would be a valuable reference for car-following model evaluation. The main limitation is that 'human-like' is operationalized through a specific parameter set from ISO 15622 and Treiber et al.; the negative conclusions are therefore conditional on that normative choice, a point the paper acknowledges only in passing.

major comments (3)

[Section 4.1, Eqs. (20)-(21)] The statement that the IDM 'travels backward regardless of the initial conditions' is not established by the analysis given. Linearizing at the equilibrium and finding a stable spiral controls only trajectories in a sufficiently small neighborhood of (v, z) = (0, ζ); the paper provides no global argument, such as a basin-of-attraction or Lyapunov-function proof, to show that every trajectory eventually enters that neighborhood and then crosses v = 0. The numerical example in Section 4.2 is a single initial condition. Moreover, the conclusion in Section 6 correctly says 'backward travel near equilibrium,' which is weaker than the Section 4.1 claim. The authors should either supply a global proof or weaken the claim to hold for generic initial conditions sufficiently close to the equilibrium and for the simulated scenario.
[Section 4.1 and Section 4.2] The claim that the IDM 'violates the safe stopping distance principle' is not supported by Eq. (10) as stated. Eq. (10) is a formula for the distance required to stop from speed v; it is not an upper bound on when braking may begin. Initiating braking at approximately 1000 m when the required stopping distance is about 366 m is conservative but does not violate any principle listed in Section 2.2. To retain this critique, the authors should introduce an explicit principle such as 'braking should not commence substantially earlier than the safe stopping distance' or present the finding as a human-likeness issue rather than a safety-principle violation. As written, the conclusion that the IDM violates the safe stopping distance principle is overstated.
[Section 5.1, Eq. (28)] Asserting that the simplified Gipps model's fundamental diagram is 'inconsistent with human-driven vehicles' because the wave speed uses τ' rather than τ is an empirical or normative claim, not a consequence of the paper's stated principles. The values τ' = 1 s and τ = 1.6 s are drawn from different sources, and Section 2.2 itself notes variability in acceleration parameters. The mathematical derivation of the triangular fundamental diagram is correct, but the label 'inconsistent with human-driven vehicles' requires empirical support or should be recast as a conditional sensitivity result. Since the conclusion lists this as a limitation of the Gipps model, the claim should be either justified or softened.

minor comments (5)

[Abstract and Section 1] The abstract states that 'numerical simulations and empirical observations validate the theoretical insights,' but the manuscript presents no empirical observations; only numerical replications of published simulations appear in Sections 3-5. Please revise the abstract and introduction to say 'numerical simulations.'
[Section 3.3, Eq. (18)] The wording that the BDA-Newell model 'prohibits initial spacings smaller than the comfort jam spacing' is imprecise: the model actually computes a negative speed for such initial states, thereby violating the forward-traveling and jam-spacing principles. The distinction matters because the model's failure mode is a computed trajectory, not a hard prohibition.
[Section 2.2.3] The section heading promises 'braking profiles' as a second-order principle, but no braking-profile principle is formally stated; Eq. (10) is a scalar stopping-distance formula rather than a profile. Either define the profile principle or remove that phrase from the list.
[Section 2.1, Eq. (3)] The time-gap definition τ(t) = (z(t) - ζ)/v(t + ε) is undefined when v(t + ε) = 0; please add a convention or restrict the definition to positive planned speeds.
[Section 5.1, Eq. (31)] Eq. (31) sets the initial spacing equal to the safe stopping distance from v(0); this is a specific initial condition for the analytical braking solution, not a general property of the simplified Gipps model. Please state this explicitly to avoid confusion.

Circularity Check

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Central claims are not circular; only a minor by-construction safe-stopping verification in the Gipps analysis, plus non-load-bearing self-citations.

self definitional [Section 5.1, Eqs. (25)-(27), Eq. (31) and surrounding text]
"Here we consider a simplified version of (22) with τ1=τ′: [Eq. (25)] ... Coupled with the TWOPAS bounded acceleration model, we have the following simplified Gipps model [Eq. (27)]. ... From the above analysis, we can see that the simplified Gipps model satisfies all of the principles defined in Section 2 ... Thus, the safe stopping distance from v(0) is consistent with that in (10)."

Equation (25) is just the safe stopping distance principle (10) rewritten for the next step with τ1=τ′ and v_L: τ′v(t+ϵ)+v^2(t+ϵ)/(2β) ≤ z(t)−ζ+v_L^2(t)/(2β). The simplified Gipps update (27) enforces this constraint by construction. Therefore the later statement that the model's safe stopping distance is consistent with (10) is a restatement of the model's defining constraint, not an independent finding. The paper is transparent that Gipps was 'derived based on the safe stopping distance principle', so this is a minor by-construction verification rather than a hidden circularity; it does not affect the paper's main, independently argued critiques about ill-defined spacings, fundamental-diagram inconsistency, and unbounded jerk.

full rationale

The central analysis is not circular in any load-bearing way. The behavioral principles and parameter values are imported from ISO 15622 and Treiber et al. (2000), which are external benchmarks; the IDM and Gipps parameters are the original published values, not fitted in this paper. Newell's model is obtained by explicitly solving the maximum-speed objective (11a) subject to the first-order constraints (7)-(8), and the lemmas prove non-tautological invariant properties such as preservation of comfort jam spacing and forward travel. The IDM backward-travel and excessive-braking-distance claims are derived by direct linearization and phase-plane analysis of the IDM equations, so they are not circular; any weakness there concerns the normative status of the stated principles or the global range of the linearization argument, not reduction to inputs. The Gipps analysis contains one self-definitional moment: the simplified Gipps model is defined by imposing the safe stopping distance constraint, so demonstrating that it satisfies that constraint is verification by construction. This is explicitly acknowledged in the paper and is not the main claim. Self-citations to Jin (2016, 2019), Jin and Laval (2018), and Jin (2025) are used for discretization background, model naming, and the companion Part 2; none is the sole justification for the central negative results about IDM or Gipps. Overall, the derivation chain is self-contained against external model equations and parameter sets, with only a minor by-construction property in one subsection.

Assumptions & free parameters 1 free parameters · 4 assumptions · 0 invented entities

No data are fitted in this paper; the central parameters are imported from prior standards and literature. The main implicit inputs are the normative principles in Section 2.2, the symplectic discretization theorem from Jin (2019), and a local-to-global leap in the IDM proof. No new physical entities are introduced.

free parameters (1)

BDA example deceleration bound beta = 2 m/s^2
Hand-chosen in the Section 3.3 numerical example to demonstrate a collision; the paper itself notes beta >= 9.375 m/s^2 would be needed to avoid collision. It is an illustrative example, not a fitted parameter.

assumptions (4)

domain assumption The symplectic discretization (2) is the only physically meaningful update because explicit Euler schemes can produce collisions (Jin 2019, Theorem 4.5).
The paper uses (2) throughout without reproving Jin's theorem; all model solutions inherit this discretization choice.
domain assumption The Section 2.2 behavioral principles with ISO 15622 and Treiber et al. parameter values define safe and human-like car-following.
The model evaluations in Sections 4 and 5 treat violations of these principles as limitations. The paper does not empirically calibrate or justify these values as the definition of human-like behavior.
ad hoc to paper The linearization of the IDM at the equilibrium (v=0, clearance=0) characterizes trajectories for all initial conditions in the stationary-lead problem.
Section 4.1 uses eigenvalues of the linearized system to conclude that v(t) becomes negative 'regardless of initial conditions' without providing a global stability or phase-portrait argument.
domain assumption Anisotropic traffic assumption: each follower's primary responsibility is to avoid its immediate leader.
Section 2.2.4 states that existing models implicitly assume this; the stationary-lead problem analysis rests on it.

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Trajectory planning is essential for ensuring safe driving in the face of uncertainties related to communication, sensing, and dynamic factors such as weather, road conditions, policies, and other road users. Existing car-following models often lack rigorous safety proofs and the ability to replicate human-like driving behaviors consistently. This article applies multi-phase dynamical systems analysis to well-known car-following models to highlight the characteristics and limitations of existing approaches. We begin by formulating fundamental principles for safe and human-like car-following behaviors, which include zeroth-order principles for comfort and minimum jam spacings, first-order principles for speeds and time gaps, and second-order principles for comfort acceleration/deceleration bounds as well as braking profiles. From a set of these zeroth- and first-order principles, we derive Newell's simplified car-following model. Subsequently, we analyze phases within the speed-spacing plane for the stationary lead-vehicle problem in Newell's model and its extensions, which incorporate both bounded acceleration and deceleration. We then analyze the performance of the Intelligent Driver Model and the Gipps model. Through this analysis, we highlight the limitations of these models with respect to some of the aforementioned principles. Numerical simulations and empirical observations validate the theoretical insights. Finally, we discuss future research directions to further integrate safety, human-like behaviors, and vehicular automation in car-following models, which are addressed in Part 2 of this study \citep{jin2025WA20-02_Part2}, where we develop a novel multi-phase projection-based car-following model that addresses the limitations identified here.

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**Figure 1.** Variables for car-following rules • Comfort Jam Spacing (ζ): A typically larger spacing drivers prefer when stopped (approximately 7 meters), providing a larger comfort cushion. The term ‘clearance’ is used to describe z(t) − ζ, indicating the difference between the actual spacing and the comfort jam spacing. For the follower, its speed and acceleration rate are denoted by v(t) and a(t), respectively. If we denote a… view at source ↗

**Figure 2.** Four phases in the BA-Newell model Definition 3.5 (Stationary lead-vehicle problem) In the stationary lead-vehicle problem, the leader remains stationary with vL(t) = 0 at all times. In [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p013_2.png] view at source ↗

**Figure 3.** An example of solutions of the BA-Newell model for the stationary lead-vehicle [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p014_3.png] view at source ↗

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**Figure 4.** Figure 4: Five phases in the BDA-Newell model in (18) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p015_4.png]

**Figure 5.** Figure 5: An example of bounded deceleration solutions of the BDA-Newell model in (18) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p016_5.png]

**Figure 6.** Figure 6: Replication of Figure 2 in (Treiber et al., 2000) [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p019_6.png]

**Figure 7.** Figure 7: Replication of Figure 2 in (Treiber et al., 2000) with the simplified Gipps model [PITH_FULL_IMAGE:figures/full_fig_p024_7.png]

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