The Second Transportation Student Research Symposium
Abstract Detail
| Name | School | Title of presentation |
| Charisma Choudhury, Anita Rao, Gunwoo Lee | MIT | Modeling Cooperative Lane-changing and Forced Merging Behavior |
| A new lane-changing model that integrates normal, courtesy and forced gap acceptance decisions of the driver in a single framework is proposed in the presentation. The model takes into account the anticipation of future traffic conditions in the current decision making process of the driver and explicitly considers the heterogeneity of driver population. The effects of previous decisions of the driver are captured by introducing state-dependency in the model. The parameters of the model are estimated with detailed vehicle trajectory data. The goodness-of-fit statistics indicate significant improvement over simpler gap acceptance models. The proposed model will be implemented in the microscopic traffic simulation tool MITSIMLab. The enhanced simulation tool will enable researchers and practitioners to evaluate congested and incident affected scenarios more consistently. |
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