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Car-following safety analysis and control strategy for foggy freeway

Yan-yan QIN1(),Teng-fei XIAO1,Qin-zhong LUO1,Bao-jie WANG2()   

  1. 1.School of Traffic and Transportation,Chongqing Jiaotong University,Chongqing 400074,China
    2.Key Laboratory of Transport Industry of Management,Control and Cycle Repair Technology for Traffic Network Facilities in Ecological Security Barrier Area(Chang'an University),Xi'an 710064,China
  • Received:2023-06-20 Online:2025-04-01 Published:2025-06-19
  • Contact: Bao-jie WANG E-mail:qinyanyan@cqjtu.edu.cn;wangbj2@163.com

Abstract:

This paper studies the freeway car-following safety in foggy weather. Then a control strategy for freeway car-following safety in foggy weather is proposed based on vehicle-to-vehicle(V2V) communications. Firstly, a foggy car-following model was selected to describe the car-following behavior in foggy weather. Numerical simulation was designed to analyze the influence of different foggy scenes and speed limit conditions on the risk of rear-end collision. Then we conducted sensitivity analyses on the collision time threshold TTC*, the initial speed v of the fleet and the distance L between the lead vehicle and the accident point when the lead vehicle just observed the accident point. Finally, considering the influence of speed difference between the vehicle and preceding vehicle on car-following behavior, a car-following safety control strategy was proposed based on foggy V2V conditions. The results show that the speed limit values of 60 km/h and 100 km/h will lead to the maximum risk of rear-end collision under light fog and heavy fog conditions, respectively. The light fog has the minimum risk of rear-end collision when 40 km/h and 80 km/h are selected as the speed limit value. The heavy fog has the minimum risk of rear-end collision when 60 km/h is selected as the speed limit value. The risk of rear-end collision is positively correlated with the initial speed v of the fleet and collision time threshold TTC*, and negatively correlated with the distance L between the lead vehicle and the accident point when the lead vehicle just observed the accident point. The proposed control strategy can effectively reduce the risk of rear-end collision and improve the car-following safety in foggy weather. Under the confidence level of 95%, the risk of rear-end collision was significantly reduced. The risk of rear-end collision could be reduced by 36.70%~45.14% under different foggy scenes and speed limit conditions.

Key words: engineering of communication and transportation system, traffic safety, car-following model, foggy weather, control strategy

CLC Number: 

  • U491

Table 1

Parametercalibration results of Gipps model"

雾天浓度限速/(km·h-1an /(m·s-2bn /(m·s-2bn-1/(m·s-2Tn /sd/m

轻雾

(能见度150 m)

401.354-3.718-3.5280.9476.567
601.792-3.539-3.8931.1505.938
802.574-3.940-2.9581.4936.238
1002.809-3.694-2.8671.6366.153

浓雾

(能见度60 m)

402.256-3.557-3.6370.9436.682
602.296-3.460-3.6441.0647.188
802.530-2.967-2.9071.1766.290
1003.330-3.719-3.2101.5045.721

Table 2

Simulation results of TET and TIT"

雾天浓度限速/(km·h-1TETTIT
轻雾4019.7210.93
6090.2952.66
8018.2911.48
10021.4213.73
浓雾4022.7411.75
6013.756.36
8027.8715.67
10051.0336.27

Table 3

Impact results of TTC* on TET"

雾天浓度限速/(km·h-1TET
TTC*=2 sTTC*=2.5 sTTC*=3 sTTC*=3.5 sTTC*=4 s
轻雾403.129.7619.7234.6553.95
6015.8444.4090.29119.20141.23
804.2110.2718.2928.9541.97
1005.0011.8721.4233.7949.16
浓雾402.9910.1522.7441.7869.36
601.195.6513.7526.7645.90
804.9013.8027.8748.7777.05
10014.2229.1751.0379.34115.49

Table 4

Impact results of TTC* on TIT"

雾天浓度限速/(km·h-1TIT
TTC*=2 sTTC*=2.5 sTTC*=3 sTTC*=3.5 sTTC*=4 s
轻雾400.653.7110.9324.3646.33
604.5918.8052.66105.46170.74
801.084.5011.4823.1340.69
1001.405.5313.7327.4048.03
浓雾400.583.7311.7527.5754.95
600.131.676.3616.2734.14
801.095.5015.6734.5465.63
1005.8916.5836.2768.29116.28

Fig.1

Heat map of TET change in light fog scene"

Fig.2

Heat map of TIT change in light fog scene"

Fig.3

Heat map of TET change in heavy fog scene"

Fig.4

Heat map of TIT change in heavy fog scene"

Fig.5

Average reductions of TET and TIT under different α"

Table 5

Statistical test results based on SPSS"

检验对象组数检验统计量自由度渐近显著性P
评价结果618.7550.002
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