Traveling solutions for a multi-anticipative car-following traffic model

Abstract

In this paper, we consider a steady state multi-anticipative traffic model and we provide necessarily and sufficient conditions for the existence of traveling solutions. In our work, the word "traveling" means that the distance between two consecutive vehicles travels continuously between two different states. As application to our result, we show that taking a strictly concave optimal velocity, we can construct a traveling solution such that the distance between two vehicles decreases. The existence, uniqueness and the study of the asymptotic behavior of such solutions is done at the level of the Hamilton-Jacobi equation.