Merging behaviour: Empirical comparison between two sites and new theory development

Marczak, Florian; Daamen, Winnie; Buisson, Christine

doi:10.1016/j.trc.2013.07.007

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“…332 and 609 merging samples were collected from SH and LA, respectively. Similar to Sun et al [27] and Marczak et al [7], variables considered in the analysis are depicted in Figure 2 (detailed trajectory is show in Figure 3) and summarized in Table 1. For clarity, the meanings of variables are described in Figure 2 taking Vehicle 1618 in LA as an example.…”

Section: Study Sites and Datamentioning

confidence: 98%

“…Daamen et al [12] note that drivers prefer to choose an optimum gap that might reject several acceptable gaps before merging. Marczak et al [7] first define the rejected gap as the gap a merger could have chosen (but chooses instead to drive ahead and merge into a gap downstream) and analyze the impact of one rejected gap. Based on the evidence of these studies, therefore, we conclude that previous studies either lack a clear description of rejected gaps or simply consider one rejected gap.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Sun and Elefteriadou [26] modeled this behavior considering driver characteristics. Recently, Marczak et al [7] take the once rejected gap before merging into consideration to model the merging behavior.…”

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…In this study, we used the concept of rejected gap as Marczak et al [7] mentioned that the rejected gap is the gap a merger could have chosen. However, the selection and calculation of rejected samples and their gaps are not clearly explained in all the previous studies.…”

Section: Defining and Measuring The Rejected Gapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Lots of these models are based on the gap acceptance theory; that is, when meeting a gap, a driver will compare it to the critical gap. If the gap is larger than the critical gap, the driver will accept it and merge; if not, he/she will reject it and move on to find another gap [7,8]. Intuitively, there are two types of gap: the accepted gap and the rejected gap.…”

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confidence: 99%

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Modeling and Predicting Stochastic Merging Behaviors at Freeway On-Ramp Bottlenecks

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Journal of Advanced Transportation

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Merging behavior is inevitable at on-ramp bottlenecks and is a significant factor in triggering traffic breakdown. In modeling merging behaviors, the gap acceptance theory is generally used. Gap acceptance theory holds that when a gap is larger than the critical gap, the vehicle will merge into the mainline. In this study, however, analyses not only focus on the accepted gaps, but also take the rejected gaps into account, and the impact on merging behavior with multi-rejected (more than once rejecting behavior) gaps was investigated; it shows that the multi-rejected gaps have a great influence on the estimation of critical gap and merging prediction. Two empirical trajectory data sets were collected and analyzed: one at Yan'an Expressway in Shanghai, China, and the other at Highway 101 in Los Angeles, USA. The study made three main contributions. First, it gives the quantitative measurement of the rejected gap which is also a detailed description of non-merging event and investigated the characteristics of the multi-rejected gaps; second, taking the multi-rejected gaps into consideration, it further expanded the concept of the "critical gap" which can be a statistic one and the distribution function of merging probability with respect to such gaps was analyzed by means of survival analysis. This way could make the full use of multi-rejected gaps and accepted gaps and reduce the sample bias, thus estimating the critical gap accurately; finally, considering multi-rejected gaps, it created logistic regression models to predict merging behavior. These models were tested using field data, and satisfactory performances were obtained.

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Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Literature Reviewmentioning

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Section: Defining and Measuring The Rejected Gapsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: Introductionmentioning

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Modeling and Predicting Stochastic Merging Behaviors at Freeway On-Ramp Bottlenecks

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Empirical Analysis of Lane Changing Behavior at a Freeway Weaving Section

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Buisson³

2016

Traffic Management

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Capacity models on expressway near a bus bay stop with an access

Zhang

Sun

et al. 2015

J. Cent. South Univ.

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To determinate the expressway capacity near a bus bay stop with an access, capacity models on the expressway near a bus stop with an access were developed on the basis of gap acceptance theory and queuing theory. Depending on a bus stop position to an entrance or an exit ramp, the capacity models were developed for four cases. Bus bay stops with overflow and bus bay stops without overflow were considered. A comparison of simulation experiment and model calculation was carried out. Results show that the suggested models have high accuracy and reliability, at bus arrival rate below 60 vehicles per hour (veh/h) or vehicle volumes at the entrance and the exit below 200 passenger cars units per hour (pcu/h), and there are no significant difference in the capacities for four cases. When bus arrival rate is above 240 veh/h, the capacities of all four cases will decline rapidly. With berth number increasing, the increasing of the capacities is no obvious for four cases. As the bus arrival rate and vehicle volumes at the entrance and the exit increase, bus stops located downstream of an entrance and upstream of an exit have a remarkably effect on the capacities. The latter case is much heavier than the former. Those results can be used to traffic design and optimization on urban expressway near a bus stop with an access.

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Merging behaviour: Empirical comparison between two sites and new theory development

Cited by 65 publications

References 16 publications

Modeling and Predicting Stochastic Merging Behaviors at Freeway On-Ramp Bottlenecks

Modeling and Predicting Stochastic Merging Behaviors at Freeway On-Ramp Bottlenecks

Empirical Analysis of Lane Changing Behavior at a Freeway Weaving Section

Capacity models on expressway near a bus bay stop with an access

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