Comparative assessment of safety indicators for vehicle trajectories on the highway

Freddy Mullakkal Babu, Meng Wang, Haneen Farah, Bart van Arem, Riender Happee

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Abstract

Safety measurement and analysis have been a challenging and well-researched topic in transportation. Conventionally, surrogate safety measures have been used as safety indicators in simulation models for safety assessment, in control formulations for driver assistance systems, and in data analysis of naturalistic driving studies. However, surrogate indicators only give partial insights into traffic safety i.e., they only indicate a predetermined set of possible pre-crash situations for an interacting vehicle pair. Recently, a safety indicator called the driving safety field based on field theory has been proposed for two-dimensional vehicle interactions. However, the objectivity of its functional form and validity are yet to be tested. This paper provides a qualitative and quantitative comparison of different safety indicators as a risk measure to demarcate their mathematical properties and evaluate their usefulness in quantifying trajectory risk. We compare five relevant safety indicators: inverse time to collision, post-encroachment time, potential indicator of collision with urgent decceleration, warning index and safety field strength. Their formulations are mathematically analyzed to yield qualitative insights and their values over simulated vehicle trajectories are evaluated to yield quantitative insights. Our results acknowledge the limitations and demarcate the functional utilities of the selected safety indicators.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationTRB 96th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers
Place of PublicationWashington DC, USA
PublisherTransportation Research Board (TRB)
Number of pages17
Publication statusPublished - 2017
Event96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board: Transportation Innovation: Leading the Way in an Era of Rapid Change - Walter E. Washington Convention Center, Washington, United States
Duration: 8 Jan 201712 Jan 2017
Conference number: 96
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Conference

Conference96th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
Abbreviated titleTRB 96th anual meeting
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityWashington
Period8/01/1712/01/17
OtherThe meeting program will cover all transportation modes, with more than 5,000 presentations in over 800 sessions and workshops, addressing topics of interest to policy makers, administrators, practitioners, researchers, and representatives of government, industry, and academic institutions
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Bibliographical note

Report/Paper Numbers: 17-04210

Keywords

  • Driver support systems
  • Highway safety
  • Mathematical methods
  • risk assessment
  • Traffic simulation
  • Vehicle trajectories
  • Time to collision
  • Surrogate safety indicators
  • Risk measure
  • Safety field force
  • Automated Driving

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