Download or read book Anticipatory Behavior in Lane Changing Models written by Anita Anant Rao and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: (Cont.) Aggressive drivers that tend to initiate forced merging persist in their plan to complete the merging process. The parameters of the model are estimated using detailed trajectory data. Estimation results show that the lane changing behavior is affected by relative speeds of the neighboring vehicles with respect to the merging vehicle, distance to the mandatory lane changing point and acceleration of the lag vehicle. They also show that the initiation of the forced merging process is dependent on unobserved driver characteristics like aggressiveness, driving experience etc. The model is statistically superior to another model estimated with the same dataset but which ignores the planning behavior of drivers.