Objective: We investigated the impacts of drivers’ socio-demographic factors on these lane-changing models, and developed Fuzzy logic-based lane-changing models associated the drivers’ demographic factors. Methods: Forty drivers were recruited for a driving simulator test to collect their driving behaviors of changing lane in a work zone with/without the aid of Driver’s Smart Advisory System (D...

1 The lane change process is a tactical process. However, the transitions among important tactical 2 nodes are largely ignored in the existing microscopic lane change models. Prior to the lane 3 change maneuver, the merging vehicles need to reach the feasible lane change location (the 4 desired merge position), which is right after the target gap selection. This study explores how the 5 merging...

This work describes a micro simulation program that is developed to study freeway ramp merging phenomena under congested traffic conditions. First, the results of extensive macroscopic and microscopic studies are used to establish a model for the behaviour of merging drivers. A theoretical framework for modeling the ramp and freeway lag driver acceleration-deceleration behaviour is then present...

We have proved an exact solution of a multilane totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) with heterogeneous lane-changing rates on a torus. In the expression, the TASEP in each lane and lane-changing transition can be separable. Moreover, the lane-changing transitions satisfy the detailed balance condition, and this is the key to constructing the solution. Using the saddle-point meth...

Lane changing manoeuvres of heavy vehicles have significant influence on surrounding traffic characteristics due to the physical effects that the heavy vehicles impose on surrounding vehicles. These effects are the result of heavy vehicles’ length, size, weight and the limitations in their manoeuvrability. Due to the importance of heavy vehicle lane changing manoeuvres, this paper presents an e...

One source of vehicle conflict is the freeway weaving section, where a merge and diverge in close proximity require vehicles either entering or exiting the freeway to execute one or more lane changes. Using accident data for a portion of Southern California, we examined accidents that occurred on three types of weaving sections defined in traffic engineering: Type A, where every merging or dive...

In order to realize the lane-changing maneuver of Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAV), a lateral controller based on model predictive control is developed with three degrees freedom vehicle dynamic model. Then synthesized track reference trajectory fitted by quintic Bézier curve. The validated MATLAB/CarSim under different road adhesion conditions and driving speeds. Results show that for speed...

In this paper, we propose a new data-driven model to simulate the process of lane-changing in traffic simulation. Specifically, we first extract the features from surrounding vehicles that are relevant to the lane-changing of the subject vehicle. Then, we learn the lane-changing characteristics from the ground-truth vehicle trajectory data using randomized forest and back-propagation neural net...

One source of vehicle conflict is the freeway weaving section, where a merge and diverge in close proximity require vehicles either entering or exiting the freeway to execute one or more lane changes. Using accident data for a portion of Southern California, we examined accidents that occurred on three types of weaving sections defined in traffic engineering: Type A, where every merging or dive...

Abstract Pavement distress can interfere with the vehicle’s maneuver, causing vehicle to reduce its speed and change lane or do an evasive maneuver avoid it. These behaviors could impact traffic conflict significantly. This study aims identify of pavement on specifically when approaching poor conditions. The results show differences in responding for each type vehicle. Motorcycles tend lanes co...