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Development of a Gap Acceptance Model for the Simulation of Merging Area on Urban Freeways  

김준현 (한국도로교통협회)
김진태 (한양대학교 첨단도로연구센터)
장명순 (한양대학교 교통시스템공학과)
문영준 (교통개발연구원)
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Journal of Korean Society of Transportation / v.20, no.6, 2002 , pp. 115-128 More about this Journal
Abstract
Traffic engineers have developed and implemented various microscopic simulation models to verify the traffic performance and to prevent the expected problems. The existing microscopic simulation models categorize drivers into several types to reflect various drivers' driving patterns but miss the dynamics of drivers' behavior changed based upon the traffic conditions. It was found from the field data collected from two different merging sections on an urban freeway in Seoul, Korea, that the drivers' critical gap distributions are changed based on (1) the traffic density on the adjacent lane to the acceleration lane and (2) the opportunities left to merge in terms of distance to the end of acceleration lane. It was also found from the study that the drivers' critical gap distributions follow the Normal distribution. and its mean and variance change while a vehicle progresses on an acceleration lane. This paper proposes a new gap-acceptance model developed based on a set of drivers' critical gap distributions from each segment on the acceleration lanes. Through the comparison study between the field data and the results from the simulation utilizing the proposed model, it was verified that (1) the distribution of merging points on an acceleration lane to the adjacent main lane at different density levels, (2) the size of the gap accepted for merging and (3) the speed difference between the merging vehicle and the trailing vehicle at the time of merging are statistically identical to the field data at 95% confidence level.
Keywords
합류부;간격수락;밀도별 합류위치;상대속도;모의실험;
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