The dynamic behavior of a car can be modeled as a hybrid system involving continuous state changes and discrete state transitions. However, we show that the control of safe (collision free) lane change maneuvers in multi-lane traffic on highways can be described by finite state machines extended with continuous variables coming from the environment. We use standard theory for controller synthes...

We investigate the effect of lane kilometers of roads on vehicle-kilometers traveled (VKT) in US cities. VKT increases proportionately to roadway lane kilometers for interstate highways and probably slightly less rapidly for other types of roads. The sources for this extra VKT are increases in driving by current residents, increases in commercial traffic, and migration. Increasing lane kilomete...

Horizontal alignment is a major roadway characteristic used in safety and operational evaluations of many facility types. The Highway Safety Manual (HSM) uses this characteristic in crash prediction models for rural two-lane highways, freeway segments, and freeway ramps/C-D roads. Traffic simulation models use this characteristic in their processes on almost all types of facilities. However, a ...

The left hard shoulder plays an important role in the event of emergency on inside a multi-lane highway, but past studies have not been able to clarify criteria for its installation or quantify safety impact side. In order study influence vehicles traveling highways, based that only studied situation four-lane this paper firstly constructs highway simulation model under different numbers lanes ...

KIF1A kinesins are single-headed motor proteins which move on cylindrical nanotubes called microtubules (MTs). A normal MT consists of 13 protofilaments on which the equispaced motor binding sites form a periodic array. The collective movement of the kinesins on a MT is, therefore, analogous to vehicular traffic on multilane highways where each protofilament is the analog of a single lane. Does...

Currently, there is limited research in the field of micro-scale foggy weather highway lane-change driving assistance systems. This study focuses on development a system for vehicles highways. The designed to address need lane changes various scenarios, such as number variations, vehicle malfunctions, and departure from highway, which are commonly encountered during conditions According trend h...