Optimal vehicle trajectory planning in the context of cooperative merging on highways

IA Ntousakis, IK Nikolos, M Papageorgiou - Transportation research part C …, 2016 - Elsevier
One of the main triggers of traffic congestion on highways is vehicle merging at on-ramps.
The development of automated procedures for cooperative vehicle merging is aimed to …

Simultaneous modeling of car-following and lane-changing behaviors using deep learning

X Zhang, J Sun, X Qi, J Sun - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2019 - Elsevier
Car-following (CF) and lane-changing (LC) behaviors are two basic movements in traffic
flow which are generally modeled separately in the literature, and thus the interaction …

Utilizing UAV video data for in-depth analysis of drivers' crash risk at interchange merging areas

X Gu, M Abdel-Aty, Q Xiang, Q Cai, J Yuan - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2019 - Elsevier
The interchange merging area suffers a high crash risk in the freeway system, which is
greatly related to the intense mandatory merging maneuvers. Ignoring such correlation may …

Dynamic programming-based multi-vehicle longitudinal trajectory optimization with simplified car following models

Y Wei, C Avcı, J Liu, B Belezamo, N Aydın, PT Li… - … research part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
Jointly optimizing multi-vehicle trajectories is a critical task in the next-generation
transportation system with autonomous and connected vehicles. Based on a space-time …

Integrated longitudinal and lateral hierarchical control of cooperative merging of connected and automated vehicles at on-ramps

S Jing, F Hui, X Zhao, J Rios-Torres… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can improve traffic safety and transportation
network efficiency while also reducing environmental impacts. However, congestion and …

On social interactions of merging behaviors at highway on-ramps in congested traffic

H Wang, W Wang, S Yuan, X Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Merging at highway on-ramps while interacting with other human-driven vehicles is
challenging for autonomous vehicles (AVs). An efficient route to this challenge requires …

A novel hierarchical cooperative merging control model of connected and automated vehicles featuring flexible merging positions in system optimization

Z Tang, H Zhu, X Zhang, M Iryo-Asano… - … research part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
Merging sections on freeways are typical bottlenecks for traffic efficiency and safety. The
connected and automated vehicles (CAV) technology has great capability in improving traffic …

Failed lane-changing detection and prediction using naturalistic vehicle trajectories

Y Xing, Y Wu, H Wang, L Wang, L Li, Y Peng - Transportation Research Part …, 2025 - Elsevier
Lane-changing maneuvers are crucial driving behaviors closely linked to various collisions,
such as rear-end and sideswipe collisions. Precisely predicting lane-changing maneuvers …

Risk-based merging decisions for autonomous vehicles

W Jin, M Islam, M Chowdhury - Journal of safety research, 2022 - Elsevier
Introduction: The safe freeway merging operation for fully Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) in
mixed traffic (ie, the presence of AVs and non-AVs in a traffic stream) is a challenging task …

Review of driver behaviour modelling for highway on‐ramp merging

Z Kherroubi, S Aknine - IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 2025 - Wiley Online Library
Autonomous driving is an exciting research field that has received growing attention in
recent years. One of the most challenging and safety‐critical driving situations is highway on …