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Title:

A Study on the Wave Development and Evolution Characteristics of Stop-and-Go Traffic

Accession Number:

01366482

Record Type:

Component

Abstract:

Stop-and-go waves are frequently observed in congested freeway and they have the life cycle of generation, growth, and dissipation. Yet, the development and evolution of stop-and go waves are not much researched. Therefore a serious observation is needed to understand the traffic phenomena in congested traffic. In this paper, the spatiotemporal changes of traffic state with stop-and-go waves evolution based on NGSIM trajectory dataset is investigated. It is shown how the development and evolutionary characteristics are related to lane changing maneuvers. Specifically, growth and dissipation of stop-and-go waves are inspected in relation to the total number of lane changes. It is found that characteristics of stop-and-go waves are intimately related to driver's asymmetric behavior of acceleration and deceleration.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB45 Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics

Monograph Accession #:

01362476

Report/Paper Numbers:

12-1324

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Suh, Jonghae
Yeo, Hwasoo
Skabardonis, Alexander

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2012

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 91st Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2012-1-22 to 2012-1-26
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I71: Traffic Theory; I73: Traffic Control

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2012 Paper #12-1324

Files:

TRIS, TRB

Created Date:

Feb 8 2012 5:01PM