Impact of Transition Areas on Driving Workload and Driving Behavior in Work Zones: A Naturalistic Driving Study

S Ma, J Hu, R Wang - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Significant changes in road and traffic conditions in transition areas are key to traffic
organization and guaranteeing safety in freeway work zones. Currently, most of the related …

Study on the median opening length of a freeway work zone based on a naturalistic driving experiment

S Ma, J Hu, R Wang, S Qu - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
Median openings are an effective traffic organization mode for freeway crossover work
zones, and their length is one of the most important control indicators to ensure traffic safety …

Study on Driver Behavior Pattern in Merging Area under Naturalistic Driving Conditions

Y Li, H Zhang, Q Wang, Z Wang… - Journal of Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
To reduce the risk of traffic conflicts in merging area, driver's behavior pattern was analyzed
to provide a theoretical basis for traffic control and conflict risk warning. The unmanned …

Influence of the median opening length on driving behaviors in the crossover work zone—A driving simulation study

J Difei, S Cancan, G Zhongyin, L Ran - Transportation research part F …, 2021 - Elsevier
Work zone safety has been a major concern for drivers and transportation agencies.
Considering the severe consequences of crossover work zone crashes coupled with the …

Analysis of driver's decision distance and merging distance in work zone area based on parametric survival models: with the aid of a driving simulator experiment

K Duan, X Yan, X Li, J Hang, J Yang - Transportation research part F: traffic …, 2020 - Elsevier
Work zones affect traffic safety and efficiency by changing the road condition and drivers'
maneuver. Therefore, it is important to fully understand drivers' merging behavior in work …

Safety evaluation of freeway interchange merging areas based on driver workload theory

J Hu, L He, R Wang - Science progress, 2020 - journals.sagepub.com
Prior safety evaluations of interchange merging areas have mostly focused on traffic conflicts
and operating speeds, without considering how these factors can influence the driver …

Analysis of occupation time of vehicles at urban unsignalized intersections in non-lane-based mixed traffic conditions

G Asaithambi, C Anuroop - Journal of Modern Transportation, 2016 - Springer
In India, traffic flow on roads is highly mixed in nature with wide variations in the static and
dynamic characteristics of vehicles. At unsignalized intersections, vehicles generally do not …

Drivers' lane change maneuver and speed behavior in freeway work zones

Y He, Z Shu, Y Ge, J Daniel - Proceedings of SAE-China Congress 2015 …, 2016 - Springer
Lane changing and merging occurs more frequently in work zones than other roadway
conditions due to mandatory lane changes that occur in work zones with lane closures …

Identification and factor analysis of traffic conflicts in the merge area of freeway work zone

P Wang, S Zhu, X Zhao - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
The merge areas of freeway work zones include relatively significant safety hazards that
have continuously led to urgent safety issues to be solved by the management departments …

Merging vehicles and lane speed-flow relationship in a work zone

L Li, D Zhang - Sustainability, 2018 - mdpi.com
In addition to closed merge lanes as physical bottlenecks of work zones, traffic oscillations
caused by merging vehicles at multiple locations could reduce work-zone capacity. This …