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Analyzing and modelling drivers’ deceleration behaviour from normal driving

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posted on 2017-07-14, 14:01 authored by Penny Deligianni, Mohammed Quddus, Andrew MorrisAndrew Morris, Aaron Anvuur, Steven ReedSteven Reed
Most research in vehicle automation has mainly focused on the safety aspect with only limited studies on occupants’ discomfort. In order to facilitate their rapid uptake and penetration, autonomous vehicles (AVs) should ensure that occupants are both safe and comfortable. Recent research however revealed that people felt uncomfortable when AVs braked. This may be due to their robot-like braking performance. Existing studies on drivers’ braking behaviour investigated data either from controlled experiments or driving simulators. There is a dearth of research on braking behaviour in normal driving. The objective of this paper is therefore to examine drivers’ braking behaviours by exploiting naturalistic driving data from the Pan-European TeleFOT (Field Operational Tests of Aftermarket and Nomadic Devices in Vehicles) project. On a fixed route of 16.5km long, 16 drivers were asked to drive an instrumented vehicle. A total of about eleven million observations were analysed to identify the profile, value and duration of deceleration events. Since deceleration events are nested within trips and trips within drivers, multilevel mixed-effects linear models were employed to develop relationships between deceleration value and duration and the factors influencing them. The results indicate that the most used profile of the deceleration behaviour follows a hard braking at the beginning when detecting a danger and then becomes smoother. Furthermore, they suggest that the speed, the reason for braking and the deceleration profile mostly affect the deceleration events. Findings from this study should be considered in examining the braking behaviour of AVs.

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  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board

Volume

No. 2663

Citation

DELIGIANNI, S.P. ... et al, 2017. Analyzing and modelling drivers’ deceleration behaviour from normal driving. Transportation Research Record, 2663, pp.134-141.

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© National Academy of Sciences

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  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/

Acceptance date

2017-04-13

Publication date

2017

Notes

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Transportation Research Record and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.3141/2663-17

ISSN

0361-1981

Language

  • en

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