Journal
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH PART B-METHODOLOGICAL
Volume 45, Issue 9, Pages 1378-1388Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2011.05.012
Keywords
Car-following behavior; Lane-changing maneuver; Stop-and-go traffic; Traffic oscillations; Wavelet Transform
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- Div Of Civil, Mechanical, & Manufact Inn
- Directorate For Engineering [0856699] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In this paper we identify the origins of stop-and-go (or slow-and-go) driving and measure microscopic features of their propagations by analyzing vehicle trajectories via Wavelet Transform. Based on 53 oscillation cases analyzed, we find that oscillations can be originated by either lane-changing maneuvers (LCMs) or car-following (CF) behavior. LCMs were predominantly responsible for oscillation formations in the absence of considerable horizontal or vertical curves, whereas oscillations formed spontaneously near roadside work on an uphill segment. Regardless of the trigger, the features of oscillation propagations were similar in terms of propagation speed, oscillation duration, and amplitude. All observed cases initially exhibited a precursor phase, in which slow-and-go motions were localized. Some of them eventually transitioned into a well-developed phase, in which oscillations propagated upstream in queue. LCMs were primarily responsible for the transition, although some transitions occurred without LCMs. Our findings also suggest that an oscillation has a regressive effect on car-following behavior: a deceleration wave of an oscillation affects a timid driver (characterized by larger response time and/or minimum spacing) to become less timid and an aggressive driver less aggressive, although this change may be short-lived. An extended framework of Newell's CF model is able to describe the regressive effect with two additional parameters with reasonable accuracy, as verified using vehicle trajectory data. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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