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Characteristics of risky merging driving behavior on urban expressway

  • Yulong Pei*
  • , Weiwei Qi
  • , Chuanyun Fu
  • *Corresponding author for this work

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Abstract

According to statistical data, risky merging driving behavior has taken adverse impact on traffic safety, and it widely exists in the ramp connecting section of urban expressway. Risky merging driving behavior can be divided into three types considering the difference in merging speed of vehicle, and the statistical characteristics of risky merging are analyzed based on video data. Because different traffic flow parameters have different effect on risky merging, rate of risky merging will rises with the higher traffic volume and lower traffic speed of main road. Results show that the appropriate length of acceleration lane can reduce rate of risky merging, and the security risks on risky merging comes from traffic conflicts initiated by merging gap selecting of ramp vehicle. Furthermore, one times of the most dangerous directness type leads to 3.29 times of traffic conflicts.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAdvances in Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education - International Conference, CSEE 2011, Proceedings
Pages284-290
Number of pages7
EditionPART 2
DOIs
StatePublished - 2011
Externally publishedYes
EventInternational Conference on Advances in Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education, CSEE 2011 - Wuhan, China
Duration: 21 Aug 201122 Aug 2011

Publication series

NameCommunications in Computer and Information Science
NumberPART 2
Volume215 CCIS
ISSN (Print)1865-0929

Conference

ConferenceInternational Conference on Advances in Computer Science, Environment, Ecoinformatics, and Education, CSEE 2011
Country/TerritoryChina
CityWuhan
Period21/08/1122/08/11

Keywords

  • risky driving behavior
  • risky merging
  • statistical characteristics
  • type classification
  • video data

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