Journal of South China University of Technology(Natural Science Edition) ›› 2023, Vol. 51 ›› Issue (6): 10-19.doi: 10.12141/j.issn.1000-565X.220448

Special Issue: 2023年交通运输工程

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A Car-Following Model Driven by Combination of Theory and Data Considering Effects of Lane Change of Side Cars

ZHAO Jiandong1,2 JIAO Lanxin1 ZHAO Zhimin1 QU Yunchao3 SUN Huijun1   

  1. 1.College of Traffic and Transportation,Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing 100044,China
    2.Key Laboratory of Transport Industry of Big Data Application Technologies for Comprehensive Transport,Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing 100044,China
    3.State Key Laboratory of Rail Transit Control and Safety,Beijing Jiaotong University,Beijing 100044,China
  • Received:2022-07-15 Online:2023-06-25 Published:2023-01-20
  • Contact: 赵建东(1975-),男,教授,博士生导师,从事交通系统科学、智能交通研究。 E-mail:zhaojd@bjtu.edu.cn
  • About author:赵建东(1975-),男,教授,博士生导师,从事交通系统科学、智能交通研究。
  • Supported by:
    the National Natural Science Foundation of China(71890972/71890970);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2019YFB1600200)

Abstract:

In order to analyze the following behavior of the target vehicle under the influence of lateral vehicle lane change, this study proposed a combination of theory-data driving following model by combining the multi-velocity difference theoretical following model and deep learning method. Firstly, it considered the following vehicle’s characteristics of maintaining a safe distance between forward and lateral vehicles and being affected by vehicle speed difference. And it proposed a two-lane multi-speed difference following(FS-MAVD) model, the parameters of which were calibrated by differential evolution algorithm. Secondly, it constructed a CNN-Bi-LSTM-Attention data-driven car following model. Convolutional neural network layer (CNN) was used to fully extract forward and lateral vehicle traffic features. Bidirectional long and short term memory networks layer (Bi-LSTM) took driver memory effect into account. The Attention mechanism layer was used to assign model weights. Drivers’ memory duration, model training batches and training rounds are trained based on data. Thirdly, considering the wide applicability of the theoretical model and the characteristics of the data-driven model close to the real value and smooth, the study used the optimal weighting method to combine the two models for prediction. Fourthly, the following behavior sample set was established by using the track data of expressway vehicles shot by UAV, and the model was trained and tested. Compared with the prediction effect of LSTM model, Bi-LSTM model, CNN-Bi-LSTM-Attention model and FS-MAVD theoretical model, the prediction accuracy and error of different models for different vehicles were respectively compared. The results show that the acceleration prediction accuracy of the combined model constructed in this paper reaches 97.64%. The root-mean-square error of prediction is as low as 0.027. Compared with other models, the proposed model can better predict acceleration and deceleration of vehicles affected by lane changing of side vehicles, and better analyze the following behavior of target vehicles.

Key words: traffic flow, car following, data-driven model, combination model, prediction, deep learning

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