The keep-right-except-to-pass is a basic rule for driving on the road. This paper addresses the performance of the keep-right-except-to-pass rule, which requires drivers to keep driving on the right-most lane unless they are passing another vehicle, and they must turn back into the right lane once they finish overtaking. In this process, overtaking behavior has a major influence on the traffic flow. Hence, we firstly deliberate five steps of the overtaking process. Second, the symmetric two-lane cellular automaton model which considers the rules of lane-changing is proposed. Third, by analyzing the collected data, we know the variation curve of lane-changing times is just like a parabola with traffic volume increasing. Also, the traffic safety performance decreases with rising lane-changing times. Therefore, the slower-traffic-keep-right rule is proposed to replace the former rule in the condition of heavy traffic, which permits cars to keep driving in the fast lane after overtaking.


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    Title :

    Performance Evaluation of the Keep-Right-Except-to-Pass Rule


    Contributors:
    Yang, Huiting (author) / Deng, Wei (author) / Wu, Dingxin (author)

    Conference:

    17th COTA International Conference of Transportation Professionals ; 2017 ; Shanghai, China


    Published in:

    CICTP 2017 ; 4170-4180


    Publication date :

    2018-01-18




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English