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    Highlights A method for calculating recommended speed with near-miss incidents was developed. Safety cushion time was quantified based on the formulation of the near-miss process. Road environment characteristics that influence vehicle speed were identified. A context-aware driver model adjusted the speed according to the driving context. This approach can be effective in guiding a driver to hazard-anticipatory driving.

    Abstract The near-miss events involving vulnerable road users can lead to serious accidents. Safe and careful expert drivers perform a hazard-anticipatory driving and they will naturally seek to reduce the uncertainty by attempting to fit their current driving context into a pre-existing category they have already developed, that is, predicting what can happen. In this study, our target situation consists of a cyclist attempting a road crossing at a blind spot. This study aims at developing a context-aware driver model for determining the recommended driving speed at blind intersections based on the analysis of near-miss-incidence database, which includes the data on driver behavior and road environmental factors just before the near-miss. First, we extracted the drive-recorder data using the management tool provided in the database. Second, risk, which is defined as the time margin for drivers to perform evasive actions to avoid a crash, was quantified for the extracted data using the safety-cushion time. The safety-cushion time can be observed as a result of the driver’s adjustment to the vehicle velocity depending on the given road environment. One of the key aspects in developing the context-aware driver model is to categorize the extracted near-miss data into two levels based on the risk quantifications: low- and high-risk events. The low- and high-risk events were regarded as a result of the driver’s appropriate adjustment of, and inability or failure to adjust the vehicle velocity depending on the given road environment, respectively. Third, based on a multiple linear regression analysis with low-risk event dataset, we constructed a context-aware driver model to produce the recommended vehicle speed depending on the given road environment. The road environment variables, determined by stepwise regression, were identified as factors that reduced or increased the vehicle velocity at blind intersections, and were incorporated into the model as predictors. Furthermore, we quantitatively visualized drivers setting the baseline for speed adjustment and increasing or decreasing the speed according to the given road environment context. Fourth, the model validation demonstrated a coefficient of determination ( R 2 ) of 0.20, and a mean absolute error (MAE) of 6.54 km/h on average in the 5-fold cross-validation. Finally, to investigate the effectiveness of the constructed driver model on safety performance, we used the dataset of high-risk events as test data. Theoretically, the constructed driver model guided the drivers to drive the vehicle at the recommended speed, and thus convert more than half of the high-risk events into low-risk events. These results indicate that the context-aware driver model is feasible to be used to adjust the approaching speed at blind intersections in accordance with the road environment factors.


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    Title :

    A context-aware driver model for determining recommended speed in blind intersection situations


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    Publication date :

    2021-10-07




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English





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