Exploring Duration of Lane Change Execution

摘要: Microscopic traffic simulation models are efficient and widely-used tools in transportation system analysis. Most simulations consider the lane-changing manoeuver as decision-making process treat execution an instantaneous action. Studies of lane changing indicate that action duration is generally range 1s to 16s. The omission will significantly affect outputs simulation. This paper analyses characteristics hypothesizes change has positive relation with conflicts between subject vehicle surrounding vehicles. Observed field data was used test this hypothesis. Then a predictive model proposed for passenger cars heavy vehicles separately. estimated by using video collected from arterial road Melbourne.