Naturalistic Driving Data for the Analysis of Car-following Models

................................................................................................................................... 7 INTRODUCTION .......................................................................................................................... 8 NATURALISTIC DRIVING DATA ............................................................................................. 8 Data Collection ........................................................................................................................... 8 Data Selection ............................................................................................................................. 9 Event Processing ......................................................................................................................... 9 Data Validation ......................................................................................................................... 11 Smoothing and Interpolating Data Elements ............................................................................ 12 Summary of the Data Reduction Process.................................................................................. 13 SUMMARY OF DATA ANALYZED ......................................................................................... 14 TRAFFIC SIMULATION CAR-FOLLOWING MODELS ........................................................ 16 Gaxis-Herman-Rothery (GHR) Model ..................................................................................... 16 Gipps Model.............................................................................................................................. 17 Intelligent Driver Model (IDM) ................................................................................................ 18 Rakha-Pasumarthy-Adjerid (RPA) Model ................................................................................ 18 PARAMETER CALIBRATION .................................................................................................. 20 Discrete Time Generation of Vehicle Trajectories ................................................................... 20 Parameter Feasible Ranges ....................................................................................................... 21 Optimization Functions to Match Simulated and Observed Results ........................................ 21 RESULTS OF PARAMETER CALIBRATION .......................................................................... 22 CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS ....................................................................... 27 ACKNOWLEDGEMENT ............................................................................................................ 28 ABSTRACT .................................................................................................................................. 30................................................................................................................................. 30 INTRODUCTION ........................................................................................................................ 30 DATASET .................................................................................................................................... 31 THE RAKHA-PASUMARTHY-ADJERID CAR-FOLLOWING MODEL ............................... 32 First-order Steady-state Car-following Model .......................................................................... 32 Collision Avoidance Model ...................................................................................................... 33 Vehicle Dynamics Model ......................................................................................................... 34 PARAMETER CALIBRATION .................................................................................................. 34