Human-driven Vehicles (HVs) and Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) will inevitably coexist in the future, resulting in mixed traffic conditions. Modeling car-following behavior in such mixed traffic is crucial for better understanding the differences in driving behavior between AVs and HVs, thereby facilitating the development of AV driving strategies to enhance traffic safety. In such mixed traffic, the car-following modes typically include AVs following HVs, HVs following HVs and HVs following AVs. Previous studies have compared the driving behavior of HVs following HVs and HVs following AVs, but few have considered the driving behavior of AVs following HVs in the comparison. To bridge this gap, this paper first decomposes car-following events in mixed traffic extracted from a Lyft level-5 dataset into driving primitives using the Hidden Markov Model with Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM-HMM). Then, the Latent Dirichlet Allocation with GMM (GMM-LDA) is introduced to cluster the driving primitives into different car-following behavior patterns. Based on the identified patterns, the differences across the three car-following modes are further explored. The results show that the driving behavior under three car-following modes differs from each other. Specifically, compared to the HVs following HVs mode, in the AVs following HVs mode, AVs tend to maintain car-following behavior patterns with a longer distance gap and adopt a lower speed to ensure safety. This study offers a comprehensive understanding of car-following behavior in mixed traffic, which will facilitate the development of human-like driving strategies for AVs and enhance the safety of mixed traffic.


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    Title :

    Comparing Car-Following Behavior Patterns of Human-Driven Vehicles and Autonomous Vehicles in a Mixed Traffic Environment


    Contributors:
    Tang, Shuning (author) / Zou, Yajie (author) / Wu, Shubo (author) / Xie, Yuanchang (author) / Zhang, Yunlong (author)


    Publication date :

    2025-05-01


    Size :

    3063402 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English