An observational study of freeway lane-changing behaviour

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dc.contributor.authorNemeh, M. Rafiken
dc.contributor.departmentCivil Engineeringen
dc.date.accessioned2014-03-14T21:38:22Zen
dc.date.adate2010-06-12en
dc.date.available2014-03-14T21:38:22Zen
dc.date.issued1988en
dc.date.rdate2010-06-12en
dc.date.sdate2010-06-12en
dc.description.abstractEvery one who has driven on a freeway has observed the phenomenon of lanechanging. This phenomenon is, of course, caused by the desire of most of the drivers not to be in a slow-moving lane. Therefore, the average driver who finds himself in such a lane moves into a neighboring faster lane, usually after a certain time-lag. This time-lag depends on the dynamic characteristics of the vehicle, the availability of acceptable gaps, and the driver risk, which is the value the driver places on the probability of collision during a maneuver, i.e. the higher the perceived probability of collision, the higher the time-lag. Modelling of the lane-changing phenomenon has been the objective of many investigators in the past. As will be shown later in this study, lane-changing is a very important component in highway traffic flow. In this study, a mathematical model to describe the lane-changing behaviour is suggested based on the lane-changing hypothesis that whenever there is a lane-changing maneuver, the average speed of the neighboring lane is faster than the average speed of the current lane. A set of data has been collected by a methodology which involves aerial photographic technique. The collected data are then used to test the validity of the lanechanging hypothesis, to calibrate and validate an existing lane-changing model, and to develop a gap acceptance function for freeway lane-changing maneuvers.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Scienceen
dc.format.extentvii, 61 leavesen
dc.format.mediumBTDen
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdfen
dc.identifier.otheretd-06122010-020358en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-06122010-020358/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/43258en
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.relation.haspartLD5655.V855_1988.N453.pdfen
dc.relation.isformatofOCLC# 19782000en
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subject.lccLD5655.V855 1988.N453en
dc.subject.lcshExpress highwaysen
dc.titleAn observational study of freeway lane-changing behaviouren
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineCivil Engineeringen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Scienceen

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