Recognition of lane-changing behaviour with machine learning methods at freeway off-ramps

Ting Xu, Zhishun Zhang, Xingqi Wu, Long Qi and Yi Han

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2021, vol. 567, issue C

Abstract: Crashes are occurred frequently at freeway off-ramps due to improper lane-changing (LC) behaviours. The LC behaviour is the main cause of freeway off-ramp crashes. It is important to warn the LC to reduce potential crashes. The uncertainty of LC behaviour increases the difficulties of predicting in advance. The off-ramps at Xi’an Raocheng freeway were chosen for investigation. The datasets were collected by the UAV. There was a total of 637 LC images extracted from the 200 minutes’ video stream. All LC behaviours were divided into twelve categories according to the changing direction and the influence of other vehicles in the target-lane or ego-lane. The machine learning technology is efficient in the image recognition. Thus, the vision technology was applied to devised a lane-changing recognition (LCR) model with the two-level convolutional neural network. A novel convolutional neural network based on the AlexNet was also proposed to compare with the LCR model. All samples were divided into a training dataset and a testing dataset for two models. The performance of two machines networks was compared. The training average accuracy was above 94.6% with the LCR model. The LCR model outperformed the model based on the AlexNet which was only 73.97% on average.

Keywords: Lane-changing recognition; Convolutional neural network; Lane-changing behaviour; Freeway off-ramps (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2020.125691

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