In numerous customer projects, tailored driver models have been developed which - optimised for a specific application - serve as an aid in product development. By using driver models (or human models in a different context), product development cycles can be drastically reduced, as predictions about the overall system behaviour with the human in the loop are already possible even if there are no physical prototypes yet.

At HFC, we specialise in dynamic human models that also integrate factors influencing behaviour that are commonly referred to as "psychological" factors. Examples of such factors include the consideration of motives or emotions. Perceptual or cognitive processes are also modelled, however. Combining many such human-like driver models with a model of the road space results in the simulation of realistic traffic behaviour.