Modeling Acceleration Decisions for Freeway Merges

In uncongested traffic situations, a merge is executed when the available gap is sufficiently large. However, in congested traffic, acceptable gaps for merging are often not readily available, and merging can involve more complex mechanisms. For example, the driver in the target lane may slow down a...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Choudhury, Charisma F., Ramanujam, Varun, Ben-Akiva, Moshe E.
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
Format: Article
Language:en_US
Published: Transportation Research Board of the National Academies 2014
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/89070