• Title/Summary/Keyword: Car-following

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Parameter Calibration of Car Following Models Using DGPS DATA (DGPS 수신장치를 활용한 차량추종 모형 파라미터 정산)

  • Kim, Eun-Yeong;Lee, Cheong-Won;Kim, Yong-Jin
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.24 no.3 s.89
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    • pp.17-27
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    • 2006
  • Car following model is a theory that examines changes of condition and interrelationship of acceleration deceleration. headway, velocity and so on closely based on the hypothesis that the Posterior vehicle always follows the preceding vehicle. Car following mode) which is one of the research fields of microscopic traffic flow was first introduced in 1950s and was in active progress in 1960s. However, due to the limitation of data gathering the research depression was prominent for quite a while and then soon was able to tune back on track with development in global positioning system using satellite and generalization of computer use. Recently, there has been many research studies using reception materials of global Positioning system(GPS). Introducing GPS technology to traffic has made real time tracking of a vehicle position possible. Position information is sequential in terms of time and simultaneous measurement of several vehicles in continuous driving is also practicable. Above research was focused on judging whether it is feasible to overcome the following model research by adopting the GPS reception device that was restrictively proceeded due to the limitation of data gathering. For practical judgment, we measured the accuracy and confidence level of the GPS reception devices material by carrying out a practical experiment. Car following model is also being applied in simulations of traffic flow analysis, but due to the difficulty of estimating parameters the basis of the above result. it is our goal to produce an accurate calibration of car following model's parameters that is suitable in this domestic actuality.

Estimation of Measure of Alarmness of Drivers in Ubiquitous Transport Based on Fuzzy Set Theory (퍼지이론에 기초한 유비쿼터스 교통시대 첨단차량 운전자의 불안감도 산정)

  • Park, Hee Je;Bae, Sang Hoon;Kim, Young Seup
    • KSCE Journal of Civil and Environmental Engineering Research
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    • v.28 no.1D
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    • pp.11-19
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    • 2008
  • Currently, existing car following models among several basic systems of advanced vehicle systems are almost developed related to the physical relation between two vehicles except for the driver's behavior or environmental factors. But the consideration of driver's character and environmental factors on driving are very essential factors for actual application. Hence, we suggested calibrating the degree of driver's discomfort on driving that is the former study to develop a new car following model of advanced vehicle to use in actuality. The degree of driver's discomfortness (Measure-of-Alarmness; MOA)is measured related to the relationship between the following vehicle and the preceding vehicle, the environmental factors and driver's characters in ubiquitous traffic. We made up questions to drivers to obtain the general and the objective measurement of driver's MOA. And the fuzzy logic model for measurement of MOA was constructed based on the results of survey. We verified the suitability of fuzzy logic model through the computation of MOA with several scenarios. And we measured the quantitative degree of driver's discomfortness on car following related to several factors which affect drivers. In accordance with this study, development of car following model applying driver's MOA will promote the actual application of advanced vehicle more effectively than the existing models. Finally, we thought the measurement of driver's MOA will be applied significantly to evaluate safety and comfort of drivers on driving.

GPS Data Collection and Application for the Analysis of Car Following Behavior (차량의 추종행태 분석을 위한 GPS 자료의 수집과 적용)

  • Woo, Yong-Han
    • Journal of the Korean Association of Geographic Information Studies
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    • v.3 no.4
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    • pp.11-21
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    • 2000
  • The travel behavior should be analysed microscopically for the traffic management of urban street. The car following theory which found out the correlation between the lead and the following vehicles is being widely used as basic data in many fields. As the vehicle position and its speed information can be received by GPS, this technique is recently applying to the various fields. For the case study the travel data were collected with two vehicles equipped with GPS receiver. The moving distance was calculated by the collected location data every 2 seconds and the speed variation was checked. And this study analysed and compared the acceleration and deceleration speed between the lead and the following vehicle. Finally, Regression model about the relationship between the acceleration and deceleration speed and the acceleration and deceleration distance was constructed. This model could be helpful for the road design and the regulation for the safe traffic management.

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Stochastic Mixture Modeling of Driving Behavior During Car Following

  • Angkititrakul, Pongtep;Miyajima, Chiyomi;Takeda, Kazuya
    • Journal of information and communication convergence engineering
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    • v.11 no.2
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    • pp.95-102
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    • 2013
  • This paper presents a stochastic driver behavior modeling framework which takes into account both individual and general driving characteristics as one aggregate model. Patterns of individual driving styles are modeled using a Dirichlet process mixture model, as a non-parametric Bayesian approach which automatically selects the optimal number of model components to fit sparse observations of each particular driver's behavior. In addition, general or background driving patterns are also captured with a Gaussian mixture model using a reasonably large amount of development data from several drivers. By combining both probability distributions, the aggregate driver-dependent model can better emphasize driving characteristics of each particular driver, while also backing off to exploit general driving behavior in cases of unseen/unmatched parameter spaces from individual training observations. The proposed driver behavior model was employed to anticipate pedal operation behavior during car-following maneuvers involving several drivers on the road. The experimental results showed advantages of the combined model over the model adaptation approach.

Brand Loyalty and Brand Switching Behavior in Car Insurance Market (자동차보험시장에서의 브랜드로열티와 브랜드변경행태)

  • Kim, Heung-Kyu
    • Journal of Korean Society of Industrial and Systems Engineering
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    • v.29 no.3
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    • pp.87-95
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    • 2006
  • In this paper, an approach for analyzing brand loyalty and brand switching behavior in car insurance market is presented. A two-choice model by Blumen, et al. that uses Markov chain is adopted as a main technique for estimating brand parameters. Survey data have been collected through personal interviews with questionnaires. Following the application of the model to the data, it is found that there are five leading companies in car insurance market where the number of potential brand switchers is larger than that of brand loyal customers. Therefore, differentiation of this product along with the conversion of this low-involvement product to a high-involvement one could make car insurance stand out against a somewhat undifferentiated field of competitors.

Study on the Drivers' Response Characteristics Using Spectral Analysis of Car Following Data (차량 추종자료의 파동해석을 통한 운전자 반응 특성 연구)

  • CHAE, Chandle;OH, Sei-Chang;KIM, Youngho;LEE, Jun
    • Journal of Korean Society of Transportation
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    • v.33 no.4
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    • pp.405-416
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    • 2015
  • This paper developed a method analyze drivers' response characteristics using spectral analysis with car following data. Cross-correlation function and cross spectrum are produced by Fourier transform from speed fluctuations of leading vehicle and following vehicle during the designated time ${\tau}$. Based on the analysis data, a process to calculate the reaction time and stimulus-adaption index of following vehicle was developed and 170 cases of field data was applied. It was reported average of 0.654 and 2.091 seconds of stimulus-adaption index and reaction time respectively. In conclusion, the developed indexes might contribute to enhance vehicle control of autonomous vehicle more efficient and safer.

Parameter Variation of Car-Following Models Due to Vehicle Tinting (차량선팅으로 인한 차량추종모델의 파라메터 변화분석)

  • Lee, Chung-Won;Kim, Hye-Won
    • The Journal of The Korea Institute of Intelligent Transport Systems
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    • v.8 no.5
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    • pp.48-56
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    • 2009
  • Regulation of Visible Light Transmission Percentage (VLT%) has been argued because it was known that the degree of darkness of tinted vehicle can affect to driving maneuver. Previously, it was proven that low level of VLT affects capacity reduction. But, due to lack of field data they could not analyze the effect of Car-Following model parameters. This study focuses on the effect of a tinted vehicle on following traffic flow. RTK GPS receiving data through field experiment analyzed based on headway distance, acceleration noise, sensitivity, and reaction time. As a result of analysis through GM 1st Model and 3rd Model, influence of following vehicle vary inversely with VLT and risk according as tinting of lead vehicle is third vehicle bigger than second vehicle. Also the results patterns of GM 3rd model include distance-headway are same with GM 1st Model. In the further need to research for influence analysis of traffic flow stability by the level of VLT.

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Development of an Easy-assemble Arduino Car Kit for Practice (쉽게 조립 가능한 실습용 아두이노 자동차 키트 개발 사례)

  • Lee, Eun-Sang
    • Journal of the Korea Convergence Society
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    • v.13 no.2
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    • pp.31-37
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    • 2022
  • The objective of this study was to present an example of the development of an Arduino car kit for practice. First, problems in the existing Arduino car kit were analyzed and various prototypes were developed that reflected the improvement plan. The developed kit was applied to the education field to identify problems and improvements, following which it was corrected and supplemented for use as an Arduino car kit for final practice. The Arduino car kit can be used for various experiments and practices related to an Arduino car by using a combination of two car bodies consisting of an upper plate and a lower plate. When a method to couple the upper and lower plates was used, the car body could be easily and quickly configured without the need for bolts or nuts. The developed kit involves a simple and easy assembly method, and hence, the time required for assembling a car body is considerably short. Accordingly, it is expected to be widely used as a kit that can directly experience programming education using a car.

Improvement of odometry accuracy and Parking Control for a Car-Like Mobile Robot (차량형 이동로봇의 위치 추정 정밀도 향상 기법 및 자동 주차 제어)

  • Lee, Kook-Tae;Chung, Woo-Jin;Chang, Hyo-Whan
    • The Journal of Korea Robotics Society
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    • v.3 no.1
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    • pp.16-22
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    • 2008
  • Recently, automatic parking assist systems are commercially available in some cars. In order to improve the reliability and the accuracy of parking control, pose uncertainty of a vehicle and some experimental issues should be solved. In this paper, following three schemes are proposed. (1) Odometry calibration scheme for the Car-Like Mobile Robot.(CLMR) (2) Accurate localization using Extended Kalman Filter(EKF) based redundant odometry fusion. (3) Trajectory tracking controller to compensate the tracking error of the CLMR. The proposed schemes are experimentally verified using a miniature Car-Like Mobile Robot. This paper shows that odometry accuracy and trajectory tracking performance can be dramatically improved by using the proposed schemes.

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