A Monte Carlo Simulation of Chain Reaction Rear End Potential Collisions on Freeways

نویسندگان

  • Abolfazl Hassani Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University
  • Mohsen Fallah Zavareh Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Tarbiat Modares University
  • Trond Nordfjærn Research Scientist, Norwegian Institute for Alcohol and Drug Research, Oslo, Norway
چکیده مقاله:

In recent research on modelling road collisions very little attention has been paid  to rear-end chain reaction collisions, which is characterized by more than two vehicles involved in a collision at the same time. The core aim of the present research is to develop a methodology to estimate such potential collision probabilities based on a proactive perspective, where deceleration rate to avoid collision is used as a surrogate safety measure. In a rear-end chain reaction collision the following driver’s response time and the vehicle’s maximum available deceleration rate are both assumed as stochastic causes of collision. To consider the uncertainty of variables in estimating the N-vehicle rear-end collision, a methodology based on Monte Carlo simulation is proposed. To show the applicability of the proposed methodology, the NGSIM trajectory database of I-80 interstate freeway is used. The probability density function for drivers’ response time is developed through the analysis of 1534 car following situations detected in 45 minutes of movement. The potential risk of two to five vehicle reaction collisions in a five vehicle platoon is estimated by running the simulation through 20 thousand substitutions of randomized generation values drawn from probability density function of response time and maximum available deceleration rate in a following outcome function. Results show that avoiding rear-end collision should be considered as a shared responsibility among the drivers in the platoon. As expected, the methodology considers probability of N vehicles colliding at the same time decreasing as N increases. N-vehicle collision is shown to be directly related to the clearance between the following vehicles within the platoon and the speed of individual vehicles as well as the drivers’ reaction time and the maximum deceleration rate available in individual vehicles. The proposed methodology considers all vehicles in the platoon to estimate the risk of potential chain reaction collisions, rather than just simply focusing only on the two leading and following vehicles. Therefore, the proposed methodology is believed to act more effectively than the ordinary methods, particularly if it is used to alarm drivers of vehicles synchronized based on vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) methodologies.

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عنوان ژورنال

دوره 2  شماره 3

صفحات  213- 230

تاریخ انتشار 2015-01-01

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