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Connected vehicle enabled freeway merge management - field test.
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2016-01-01
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Abstract:Freeway congestion is a major problem of the transportation system, resulting in major economic
loss in terms of traffic delays and fuel costs. With connected vehicle (CV) technologies, more
proactive traffic management strategies are possible. The Freeway Merge Assistance System
(FMAS) can implement innovative ramp management strategies by providing personalized
advisories to individual drivers to ensure smoother merging. The benefits anticipated from these
strategies will completely depend on the advisory compliance of the drivers; this, in turn, will be
influenced by situational as well as individual behavioral factors.
The purpose of this research was to investigate drivers’ responses to this new generation of
personalized in-vehicle advisory messages. A field test was conducted with naïve human
subjects to collect driver behavior data about different types of advisory messages under
different traffic scenarios in a controlled environment. The data gathered from the field test
indicated that the compliance rate was higher when a large- or medium-size gap was available
for a lane change. The lowest compliance rate was observed for a small-gap scenario. In
addition, it was discovered that more drivers would follow a direct advisory message that
advised a lane change rather than an indirect message which was meant to stimulate a lane
change through speed control.
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