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Title:

Investigating Drivers’ Reponse to Merge Management Advisory Messages in a Connected Vehicle Environment

Accession Number:

01557651

Record Type:

Component

Availability:

Transportation Research Board Business Office

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Abstract:

With the emerging Connected Vehicles technologies that enable the transmission of high resolution vehicular data and advisory messages through wireless communications between vehicles and infrastructure, more opportunities to develop proactive approaches to address freeway merge conflict are becoming available. The Freeway Merge Assistance System takes advantages of this opportunity by providing personalized advisories to individual drivers to request small modifications to their vehicular control in order to support smoother system-level merging. One thing to note here is that the benefits anticipated from these strategies will completely depend on the advisory compliance of the drivers, which may be influenced by a variety of factors such as traffic conditions and the types of advisories provided. The purpose of this research is to investigate actual drivers’ responses to this new generation of personalized in-vehicle advisory messages provided by the freeway merge assistance system. For this, a field test was conducted with naïve human subjects to collect driver behavior data to different types of advisory messages under different traffic scenarios in a controlled environment. The data gathered from the field test indicates that a compliance rate is higher when a large or medium size gap is available for a lane change while the lowest compliance rate was observed for a small gap size scenario. In addition, it was found out that more drivers follow a direct advisory message that directly advises a lane change, rather than an indirect message which indirectly stimulates a lane change through speed control.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AND20 User Information Systems.

Monograph Accession #:

01550057

Report/Paper Numbers:

15-4505

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

500 Fifth Street, NW
Washington, DC 20001 United States

Authors:

Hayat, Md Tanveer
Park, Hyungjun
Smith, Brian Lee

Pagination:

16p

Publication Date:

2015

Conference:

Transportation Research Board 94th Annual Meeting

Location: Washington DC, United States
Date: 2015-1-11 to 2015-1-15
Sponsors: Transportation Research Board

Media Type:

Digital/other

Features:

Figures; References; Tables

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; I73: Traffic Control; I83: Accidents and the Human Factor

Source Data:

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2015 Paper #15-4505

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 30 2014 1:29PM