PMSS Project Details

Project ID:	FHWA-PROJ-09-0039
Project Name:	Driver Behavior in Traffic
Status:	Completed
Contact:	Last Name: Yang First Name: David Telephone: 202-493-3284 E-mail: david.yang@dot.gov
Organization:	Federal Highway Administration - Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center (TFHRC)
Office:	Office of Operations Research and Development
Team:	Trans Ops Concepts and Analysis Team
Roadmap/Focus area(s):	Travel Modeling
Project Description:	The primary objective for this Exploratory Advanced Research project is to characterize driver behavior under naturalistic driving experiences with respect to critical parameters related to freeway driving. To accomplish such an objective, the research team will develop agents that will learn individual driver’s temporal actions for any given traffic state retrieved from the naturalistic database. These characteristics, or driving rules, of the agents will be coded in the VISISM (a German acronym that refers to a simulation model for traffic in cities) environment to test and study the collective effects of these learned behaviors with multiple drivers involved and under different situations. Analysis of trained agents' characteristics will provide the industry with methods for developing more accurate and sensitive traffic simulation models, which could lead to future research for developing new generations of traffic simulation models to accurately model impacts of driver behavior in traffic during incidents and complex traffic situations.
Laboratories:	Not Applicable
Start Date:	September 1, 2009
End Date:	August 31, 2011
Funding Amount:	$724,813.00
FHWA Program Name:	Exploratory Advanced Research
Goals:	The primary objective for this Exploratory Advanced Research project is to characterize driver behavior under naturalistic driving experiences with respect to critical parameters related to freeway driving.
Project Type:	Off-site
Background Information:	Data not yet available
Test Methodology:	Agent-based modeling and simulation
Other Information:	Data not yet available
Partners:	Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation Research; Role(s): Technical
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Fieldtest:	No
Expected Benefits:	Data not yet available
Deliverables:	Name: Final project report and Application Programming Interface codes. Product Type(s): Research report, Software Description: Detailed final report documenting study effort and findings. Application Programming Interface codes written for study. Audiences: Researchers, Traffic engineers, Federal Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center staff Secondary Audiences:
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Project Findings:	Data not yet available
FHWA Topics:	Road Operations and Congestion--Transportation Management
TRT Terms:	Driver Behavior Simulation Operations Research Traffic Simulation Driving Traffic
FHWA Disciplines:	Operations
Subject Areas:	Operations and Traffic Management