Abstract Pavement distress can interfere with the vehicle’s maneuver, causing vehicle to reduce its speed and change lane or do an evasive maneuver avoid it. These behaviors could impact traffic conflict significantly. This study aims identify of pavement on specifically when approaching poor conditions. The results show differences in responding for each type vehicle. Motorcycles tend lanes co...

Discretionary lane change (DLC) is a basic but complex maneuver in driving, which aims at reaching faster speed or better driving conditions, e.g., further line of sight ride quality. Although modeling DLC decision-making has been studied for years, the impact human factors, crucial accurately modelling strategies, largely ignored existing literature. In this paper, we integrate factors that ar...

In this paper, the consequences of filled volume on the transient lateral dynamic and stabilities boundaries displacement of an articulated vehicle carrying liquid is investigated. First, a sixteen-degrees-of-freedom nonlinear dynamic model of an articulated vehicle is developed then, using TruckSim software the model is validated. Next, the dynamic interaction of the fluid cargo with the vehic...

In this paper, the consequences of filled volume on the transient lateral dynamic and stabilities boundaries displacement of an articulated vehicle carrying liquid is investigated. First, a sixteen-degrees-of-freedom nonlinear dynamic model of an articulated vehicle is developed. Then, the model is validated by using TruckSim software. Next, the dynamic interaction of the fluid cargo with the v...

Drivers continuously evaluate the surrounding traffic and the roadway environment, and make decisions about lanes and travel speed. The objective of this thesis is to develop a lane changing model that can be used in microscopic traffic simulation models to capture drivers' lane changing behavior. Lane change is modeled as a sequence of four steps: decision to consider a lane change, choice of ...

People make anticipatory changes in gait patterns prior to initiating a rapid change of direction. How they prepare will change based on their knowledge of the maneuver. To investigate specific and general strategies used to facilitate locomotor maneuvers, we manipulated subjects' ability to anticipate the direction of an upcoming lateral "lane-change" maneuver. To examine specific anticipatory...

Nowadays, the importance of the vehicles and its dramatic effects on human life is no secret. The use of trailers with multiple axels for transporting bulky and heavy equipment is essential. Increase in trailers axles which results increment of wheels, needs considerations in order to increase in transporting speed, maneuverability, safety, better control and path following accurately.  Therefo...

Recognizing dangerous driver behavior is an essential part of predicting accurate vehicle trajectories in vehicle active safety systems. This paper proposes a lane change behavior classification approach to detect dangerous cut-in behaviors on highways. First, a probabilistic lane change behavior classifier is proposed based on Hidden Markov Models (HMMs). Then, time series data of lane changin...

Nowadays, the every vehicle existed mostly still using the two wheel steering system to control the movement of the vehicle whether it is front wheel drive, rear wheel drive or all wheel drive. But due to the awareness of safety, four wheel steering vehicles are being used increasingly due to high performance and stability that they bring to the vehicles. In this report, the performance of four...

Modeling and Simulation of the Automated Highway System by Farokh Hassanzadeh Eskafi Doctor of Philosophy in Engineering Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences University of California at Berkeley Professor Pravin Varaiya, Chair We present the hierarchical structure for the control design of the Automated Highway System (AHS). This control hierarchy has four layers: network, link, coordin...