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Title: Characterizing Human–Automated Vehicle Interactions: An Investigation into Car-Following Behavior
Automated vehicles are expected to influence human drivers’ behavior. Accordingly, capturing such changes is critical for planning and operation purposes. With regard to car-following behavior, a key question is whether existing car-following models can replicate these changes in human behavior. Using a data set that was collected from the car-following behavior of human drivers when following automated vehicles, this paper offers a robust methodology based on the concept of dynamic time warping to investigate the critical parameters that can be used to capture changes in human behavior. The results indicate that spacing can best substantiate such changes. Moreover, calibration and validation of the intelligent driver model (IDM) suggest its inability to capture changes in human behavior in response to automated vehicles. Thus, an extension of the IDM that explicitly models stochasticity in the behavior of individual drivers is applied, and the results show such a model can identify a reduction in uncertainty when following an automated vehicle. This finding also has implications for a stochastic extension to other models when analyzing and simulating a mixed-autonomy traffic flow environment.  more » « less
Award ID(s):
2047937
PAR ID:
10592017
Author(s) / Creator(s):
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Publisher / Repository:
Sage Journals
Date Published:
Journal Name:
Transportation Research Record: Journal of the Transportation Research Board
Volume:
2678
Issue:
5
ISSN:
0361-1981
Page Range / eLocation ID:
812 to 826
Format(s):
Medium: X
Sponsoring Org:
National Science Foundation
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