Exploring duration of lane change execution
Microscopic traffic simulation models are efficient and widely-used tools in traffic and transportation system analysis. Most simulations consider the lane-changing manoeuver as the decision-making process and treat lane-changing execution as an instantaneous action. Studies of lane changing indicate that the lane-changing action duration is generally in the range of 1s to 16s. The omission of lane-changing execution will significantly affect the outputs of the simulation. This paper analyses the characteristics of lane-changing execution and hypothesizes the duration of lane change execution has the positive relation with the traffic conflicts between the subject vehicle and the surrounding vehicles. Observed field data was used to test this hypothesis. Then a lane-changing execution duration predictive model is proposed for passenger cars and heavy vehicles separately. The models are estimated by using the video data collected from an arterial road in Melbourne.
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Authors:
- Cao, X
- Young, W
- Sarvi, M
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- Publication Date: 2013-10
Language
- English
Media Info
- Pagination: 17p
- Monograph Title: Transport and the new world city: 36th Australasian Transport Research Forum (ATRF), October 2nd-4th 2013, Brisbane
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Arterial highways; Automobiles; Heavy vehicles; Highway traffic control; Lane changing; Mathematical models; Microsimulation; Traffic flow; Traffic lanes
- Geographic Terms: Australia; Melbourne (Australia)
- ATRI Terms: Arterial road; Car; Heavy vehicle; Lane changing; Microsimulation; Modelling; Traffic flow; Traffic management
- ITRD Terms: 1243: Car; 1855: Driving (veh); 1236: Lorry
- Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I71: Traffic Theory;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01503313
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: ARRB
- Files: ITRD, ATRI
- Created Date: Jan 6 2014 10:58AM