Journal of Jilin University(Engineering and Technology Edition) ›› 2025, Vol. 55 ›› Issue (3): 925-937.doi: 10.13229/j.cnki.jdxbgxb.20230576

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Risk assessment in overtaking scenarios using extreme value theory and intelligent and connected information

Zhao-xia LIU1(),Fui FU1,2(),Shi-feng NIU2   

  1. 1.School of Automobile,Chang'an University,Xi'an 710064,China
    2.School of Automobile,Chang'an University,Xi'an 710064,China
  • Received:2023-06-08 Online:2025-03-01 Published:2025-05-20
  • Contact: Fui FU E-mail:2020022013@chd.edu.cn;furui@chd.edu.cn

Abstract:

In order to assess the overtaking risk level of intelligent networked vehicles when different networked information was provided. To make up for the neglect of driver factors in traditional risk assessment and the insufficient evaluation capability of a single traffic conflict indicator for complex traffic scenarios, the block maxima (BM) and peak over threshold (POT) methods were introduced to fit the extreme value distributions for the two types of conflict scenarios (follow-me and frontal oncoming conflict) involved in overtaking events, so as to assess the risk of following and frontal collision accidents, respectively. In each conflict scenario, a bivariate extreme value model was proposed to integrate different traffic conflict indicators and a non-stationary extreme value model was proposed to take the driver into account for road safety estimation, and the models were validated with the intelligent and connected vehicle overtaking test data. Extracted the overtaking event from the original test data and calculated the conflict indicators: including the time to collision between the ego vehicle and a preceding vehicle GAP, the time to collision between the ego vehicle and an oncoming vehicle TTC_t1, the deceleration DRAC, the time to collision TTC, headway with the preceding vehicle THW. The degree of collision risk was characterized by the event probability that the time conflict index is negative or the DRAC is greater than the MADR. The results show that the error results of the binary extremum model constructed by different conflict indicators are different in the head-on collisions, and the binary extremum model constructed by THW&DRAC has the most accurate evaluation results (standard error MAE=0.000 28). The binary extreme value model constructed by TTC&DRAC is the most accurate (MAE=0.006) in the frontal oncoming collisions. In different conflict scenarios, the non-stationary extreme value model considering the driver factor significantly improves the risk assessment accuracy (the AIC and BIC values are small) compared with the model that does not consider the driver factor. In addition, different intelligent network information (real-time distance, overtaking advice, speed advice) brings different passing maneuvers risks, and when the intelligent network information is speed advice, the overtaking risk of the car is the smallest. Therefore, the non-stationary extreme value model considering the driver factor and binary extreme value model proposed can effectively evaluate the driving risk through the traffic conflict index. Secondly, the experimental data of intelligent and connected vehicles show that the proposed model can accurately assess the overtaking risk level of intelligent and connected vehicles when they provide different intelligent network information.

Key words: engineering of transportation safety, overtaking risk assessment, extreme value theory, intelligent and connected vehicle, human risks

CLC Number: 

  • U491.3

Fig.1

Driver -vehicle-environment system virtual simulation platform with HMI interface"

Fig.2

Schematic diagram of test scenarios and traffic conflict indicators"

Table 1

Traffic conflict indicator statistics"

冲突指标冲突数跟车正向
515342
TTC平均值-4.63-2.500
最小值-0.76-0.118
最大值-15.76-5.387
TTC_t1平均值-16.083-17.252
最小值-0.493-4.297
最大值-30.831-33.73
GAP平均值-9.812-7.544
最小值-2.675-1.341
最大值-29.347-15.968
THW平均值5.8264.991
最小值0.340.34
最大值15.73818.764
DRAC平均值1.9020.939
最小值0.000 520.063
最大值5.5655.757
事故计数43

Fig.3

Probability density plot of the stationary vs. non-stationary BM #4"

Table 2

Covariate indicators"

协变量符号说明
性别Gen1-男性;2-女性
驾驶经验Exp1-驾龄>10/驾驶里程>4万公里;0-其他
教育水平Edu1-本科以上学历;0-其他
驾驶风格Sty1-耐心谨慎型;2-焦虑分心型;3-冒进型;4-危险型;5-混合型

Table 3

Likelihood ratio test (p-value) for non-stationary BM model for following collisions"

模型#0#1#2#3
#0
#12.5(0.011)
#20.8(0.027)-1.7(1.00)
#31.2(0.036)-1.3(1.00)-0.37(1.00)
#46.9(0.008)4.4(0.00)5.8(0.00)6.1(0.00)

Table 4

parameter estimation of the non- stationary BM model for following collisions"

参数模型#0模型#1模型#2模型#3模型#4
估计值(误差)估计值(误差)估计值(误差)估计值(误差)估计值(误差)
μ?μ?0-2.39(0.12)-2.41(0.14)-2.44(0.11)-2.83(0.162)-2.46(0.073)
μ?TTC_t10.01(0.0067)0.01(0.006 7)0.01(0.0067)0.01(0.006 7)0.01(0.006 7)
μ?Gen-0.09(0.076)
μ?Exp-0.105(0.08)
μ?Edu0.14(0.088)
μ?Sty-0.016(0.009)
σ?0.44(0.033)0.43(0.033)0.435(0.032)0.433(0.032)0.43(0.03)
ξ?0.096(0.09)0.133(0.09)0.119(0.088)0.116(0.086)0.104(0.09)
AIC271.9270.1269.6268.3254.8
BIC283.2282.4281.9280.6280.2
负对数似然133.9131.05130.8130.1127.4

Fig.4

Mean residual life plots for TTC full data set and TTC > -2.0 s"

Fig.5

Threshold stability plots of POT parameters"

Fig.6

Probability density plots and QQ plots of the POT model at different thresholds"

Table 5

Likelihood ratio test (p-value) for frontal collision non-stationary POT model"

模型#0#1#2#3
#0
#1-0.6(1.0)
#21.8(0.01)2.4(0.00)
#32.0(0.001)2.7(0.00)0.2(0.00)
#47.8(0.005)8.4(0.004)5.9(0.01)5.7(0.01)

Table 6

Parameter estimation of the non- stationary POT model for frontal collision"

参数模型#0模型#1模型#2模型#3模型#4
估计值(误差)估计值(误差)估计值(误差)估计值(误差)估计值(误差)
σ?σ?01.003 4(0.107)0.868(0.109 9)1.011(0.065 2)1.1994(0.149 9)1.234(0.004 2)
σ?GAP0.003 4(0.000 02)0.003 4(0.000 02)0.003 4(0.000 02)0.0034(0.000 02)0.003 4(0.000 02)
σ?Gen0.037 6(0.045)
σ?Exp0.063(0.018 4)
σ?Edu0.063(0.000 000 02)
σ?Sty0.0506(0.004 2)
ξ?-0.812 2(0.095)-0.7854(0.116)-0.951 6(0.073 6)-0.95(0.149 9)-0.9516(0.159)
AIC30.820 5831.830 0531.475 0528.758 9121.016 53
BIC38.148 5438.803 0138.991 836.086 8634.787 13
负对数似然12.410 2912.737 5311.495 911.382 78.508 264

Fig.7

Pickands dependence function plot"

Table 7

Parameter estimation of binary extreme value model for following and frontal collision"

类型冲突指标观测数阈值超出数参数估计AIC
z1z2z1z1σ?z1ξ?z1σ?z2ξ?z2α
跟车-THW&DRAC1 188-2.61.27150189991.07-0.3600.660.0090.7812 227.04
-THW&GAP1 054-2.48-13.6119679861.092-0.3366.43-0.48650.88211 500.2
-THW&TTC_t1645-2.62-12.4277152661.937-0.10875.571-0.19770.9076 578.02
-THW&TTC656-2.76-1.097878141. 039-0.460.625-0.4310.8076 262.3
正向TTC&GAP659-1.33-5.669779130.936-0.64245.573-0.49520.9976 057.2
TTC&DRAC571-1.031.5269152500.677-0.3070.692-0.0880.8544 548.4
TTC&-THW655-1.12-2.787879140.646-0.49781.927-0.066920.9476 307.2

Fig.8

Probability density profile and observations of the binary EV distribution"

Table 8

Model prediction accuracy"

正面碰撞跟车碰撞
二元变量MAE二元变量MAE
TTC&DRAC0.006-THW&DRAC0.000 28
TTC&-THW0.014 0-THW&GAP0.012 5
TTC& GAP0.024 3-THW&TTC_t10.021 2
---THW&TTC0.021

Fig.9

Comparison of model predicted following crash rates with measured crash rates under different smart network information"

Fig.10

Comparison of frontal crash rates with measured crash rates under different smart network information"

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