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Examining lane change gap acceptance, duration and impact using naturalistic driving data

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posted on 2019-05-31, 14:07 authored by Minming Yang, Xuesong Wang, Mohammed Quddus
Analysis of lane change is important for microsimulation and safety improvement, and can also provide reference for advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) and connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Yet little research has comprehensively explored lane changing, particularly in China, a site of current CAV testing. This study developed an automatic extraction algorithm to retrieve 5,339 lane change events from the Shanghai Naturalistic Driving Study, and used the data to examine the core lane change components: gap acceptance, duration, and impact on the following vehicle (FV). Multilevel mixed-effects linear models were employed to develop relationships between gap acceptance and duration and the influencing factors; impact was then assessed using speed change rate, brake timestamping, and time-to-collision (TTC). Key results showed that 1) gap acceptance varied by roadway type and motivation, and lead and lag gaps were significantly affected by environmental variables, vehicle type, and kinematic parameters; 2) duration varied from 0.7 s to 16.1 s, significantly affected by variables similar to gap acceptance, but notably, not by motivation; 3) as many as 1 in 5 Chinese FV drivers responded to lane changes with acceleration exceeding 10%; 4) nearly half of FVs braked when they perceived a vehicle’s lane-change intention, and 90% braked before TTC reached 4.7 s; 5) in over 70% of lane changes, the minimum TTC occurred between the initiation and cross-lane points. In addition to advancing the international development of lane-change theory, one of this study’s important applications is that CAVs can be designed to brake during a safer TTC phase.

Funding

This study was jointly sponsored by the Chinese National Science Foundation (51522810; 51878498), the Science and Technology Commission of Shanghai Municipality (18DZ1200200), and the 111 Project (B17032).

History

School

  • Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering

Published in

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volume

104

Pages

317 - 331

Citation

YANG, M., WANG, X. and QUDDUS, M.A., 2019. Examining lane change gap acceptance, duration and impact using naturalistic driving data. Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, Volume 104, pp. 317-331.

Publisher

© Elsevier

Version

  • AM (Accepted Manuscript)

Publisher statement

This paper was accepted for publication in the journal Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies and the definitive published version is available at https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trc.2019.05.024.

Acceptance date

2019-05-19

Publication date

2019-05-24

Copyright date

2019

ISSN

0968-090X

eISSN

1879-2359

Language

  • en