1.School of Traffic and Transportation,Chongqing Jiaotong University,Chongqing 400074,China
2.Key Laboratory of Transport Industry of Management,Control and Cycle Repair Technology for Traffic Network Facilities in Ecological Security Barrier Area(Chang'an University),Xi'an 710064,China
This paper studies the freeway car-following safety in foggy weather. Then a control strategy for freeway car-following safety in foggy weather is proposed based on vehicle-to-vehicle(V2V) communications. Firstly, a foggy car-following model was selected to describe the car-following behavior in foggy weather. Numerical simulation was designed to analyze the influence of different foggy scenes and speed limit conditions on the risk of rear-end collision. Then we conducted sensitivity analyses on the collision time threshold TTC*, the initial speed v of the fleet and the distance L between the lead vehicle and the accident point when the lead vehicle just observed the accident point. Finally, considering the influence of speed difference between the vehicle and preceding vehicle on car-following behavior, a car-following safety control strategy was proposed based on foggy V2V conditions. The results show that the speed limit values of 60 km/h and 100 km/h will lead to the maximum risk of rear-end collision under light fog and heavy fog conditions, respectively. The light fog has the minimum risk of rear-end collision when 40 km/h and 80 km/h are selected as the speed limit value. The heavy fog has the minimum risk of rear-end collision when 60 km/h is selected as the speed limit value. The risk of rear-end collision is positively correlated with the initial speed v of the fleet and collision time threshold TTC*, and negatively correlated with the distance L between the lead vehicle and the accident point when the lead vehicle just observed the accident point. The proposed control strategy can effectively reduce the risk of rear-end collision and improve the car-following safety in foggy weather. Under the confidence level of 95%, the risk of rear-end collision was significantly reduced. The risk of rear-end collision could be reduced by 36.70%~45.14% under different foggy scenes and speed limit conditions.
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