Research Article

A Cooperative Lane-Changing Strategy for Weaving Sections of Urban Expressway under the Connected Autonomous Vehicle Environment

Table 1

Simulation parameters.

ParametersDescriptionsValues

Vehicle length
Vehicle width
Vehicle weight
Lane-changing duration
Reaction time
Maximum accelerating rate
Maximum decelerating rate
Comfortable decelerating rate
Importance factor regarding the space of acceptable gaps in front of the weaving vehicles
Importance factor regarding the space of acceptable gaps behind the weaving vehicles
Importance factor regarding weaving vehicles’ relative speeds with respect to leading vehicles in target lanes
Importance factor regarding weaving vehicles’ relative speeds with respect to following vehicles in target lanes
Driving style coefficient factor (normally distributed)
Simulation time-step