Social Behavior of Drivers and Traffic

TL;DR

This paper explores the social behavior of drivers as agents within hierarchical groups, analyzing how group dynamics influence individual driving behavior and information verification processes.

Contribution

It introduces a model linking driver group behavior to personal driving radius and information verification, highlighting social influences on driving decisions.

Findings

Smaller personal radius correlates with increased information verification.

Driver behavior is influenced by group membership and social approval.

Hierarchical social structures affect individual driving patterns.

Abstract

Drivers are agents, they are members of the group of drivers. Human groupings have hierarchical structure. The civilization consists of societies, societies consist of groups, and groups consist of individuals. We will consider the group of drivers. Every social group has power to organize individuals and use them for its own purposes. This is true also for the group of drivers. An agent, a driver, we call a member of a social group of drivers, we assume that his-her special properties are defined: they are agents driving a car. A driver-s behavior is influenced to some degree by the need to associate with other drivers and to obtain the approval of other drivers in the group, this is a general property of agents in a group. A driver equates his-her needs with those of the other drivers from the group. From this we explain how three empirically observed dependencies of personal driver radius dependence on some factors enabled us to identify quantity which characterizes verification of information by a driver. The smaller personal radius the larger process of verification of verbal and non-verbal information about the other person in other to accept the risk that this person will be closer to us as a person (driver). We expect that this conclusion is a general conclusion.