No-passing zone crashes constitute a sizable percentage of the total crashes on two-lane rural roads. A detection and warning system has been devised and implemented at a no-passing zone site on route 114 of Southwest Virginia to address this problem. The warning system aims at deterring drivers from illegally conducting a passing maneuver within the no-passing zone area. The violating driver i...

In the transition era towards connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs), sharing of roadway by CAVs and human-driven (HDVs) in a mixed-traffic stream is expected to pose safety flow efficiency concerns even though may tend adopt rather conservative maneuvering policies. Unfortunately, this will likely cause HDV drivers unduly exploit such conservativeness driving ways that imperil safety. A context ...

We propose a general model to derive lane-changing rules for discretionary and mandatory lane changes for a wide class of car-following models. Both the utility of a given lane and the risk associated with lane changes is determined in terms of longitudinal accelerations calculated with the microscopic traffic models. This allows for the formulation of compact and general safety and incentive c...

1 I n t r o d u c t i o n Automated highway systems (AHS) offer the potential of significant improvements in traffic flow volume and stability, as well as safety, when compared with current manually-controlled highway driving (Shladover, 1991). Implementation of AHS requires completely automated lateral and longitudinal control of vehicle motions as well as coordination of the maneuvers of diff...

Recognizing dangerous driver behavior is an essential part of predicting accurate vehicle trajectories in vehicle active safety systems. This paper proposes a lane change behavior classification approach to detect dangerous cut-in behaviors on highways. First, a probabilistic lane change behavior classifier is proposed based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Then, time series data of lane changin...

Low level of driver’s situation awareness (SA) and high level of cognitive load are considered as reasons of vehicle accidents. Cognitive load is higher when driving abroad because of unfamiliarity with differences in international traffic rules or vehicle configurations. This paper aims to objectively assess the driver’s SA when performing lane changing tasks under unfamiliar driving condition...

In this paper, we study a two-lane totally asymmetric simple exclusion process (TASEP) coupled with random attachment and detachment of particles (Langmuir kinetics) in both lanes under open boundary conditions. Our model can describe the directed motion of molecular motors, attachment and detachment of motors, and free inter-lane transition of motors between filaments. In this paper, we focus ...

Experienced drivers performed simple steering maneuvers in the absence of continuous visual input. Experiments conducted in a driving simulator assessed drivers' performance of lane corrections during brief visual occlusion and examined the visual cues that guide steering. The dependence of steering behavior on heading, speed, and lateral position at the start of the maneuver was measured. Driv...