A Study on Following and Lane Changing Behaviors of Weaving Vehicles

When failing to meet the conditions of changing lanes,the weaving vehicles will be forced to change lanes by squeezing the vehicles into the target lanes.This study analyzed the car-following & lane-changing (CF&LC)behav-iors of the weaving vehicles in depth.The influence factors of CF&LC behaviors were identified from the drivers'perspec-tive in order to establish the utility functions of CF&LC behaviors.A probability model of binary choice was also devel-oped in this study.The relevant variables of the models were investigated using the techniques of trajectory capture and calibrated by maximum likelihood estimation method.The effectiveness of the proposed models was verified by a case study.The results show that the proposed model can effectively simulate the CF&LC behaviors of weaving vehicles with a precision of up to 99.0%.