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Driver Behavior Characterization in Roundabout Crossings
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| Roundabouts are widely accepted for their safety, capacity and environmental advantages. Although it can be easily recognized that the driver behavior is mostly related with the roundabout geometry. This paper presents a detailed characterization of the driver behavior while crossing three consecutive double-lane roundabouts in an arterial road. Driver behavior was described in three main levels: i) speed profiles; ii) lateral acceleration profiles; iii) roundabout geometry. It is shown that roundabouts can substantially reduce speed in the negotiation zone. The entry speed and influence zone depends on the desired speed in the upstream sections and on the roundabout geometric characteristics. | 1 MB | Adobe PDF |
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Roundabouts are widely accepted for their safety, capacity and environmental advantages. Although it can be easily recognized that the driver behavior is mostly related with the roundabout geometry. This paper presents a detailed characterization of the driver behavior while crossing three consecutive double-lane roundabouts in an arterial road. Driver behavior was described in three main levels: i) speed profiles; ii) lateral acceleration profiles; iii) roundabout geometry. It is shown that roundabouts can substantially reduce speed in the negotiation zone. The entry speed and influence zone depends on the desired speed in the upstream sections and on the roundabout geometric characteristics.
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17th Meeting of the EURO Working Group on Transportation, EWGT, 2014, 2-4 July 2014, Sevilla, Spain.
Keywords
Roundabout driver behavior speed profile influence zone lateral acceleration profile
Citation
Ana Bastos Silva, Sílvia Santos, Luís Vasconcelos, Álvaro Seco, João Pedro Silva, Driver Behavior Characterization in Roundabout Crossings, Transportation Research Procedia, Volume 3, 2014, Pages 80-89, ISSN 2352-1465, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.trpro.2014.10.093.
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Elsevier