Enhancing lane changing trajectory prediction on highways: A heuristic attention-based encoder-decoder model

Xue Xiao, Peng Bo, Yingda Chen, Yili Chen and Keping Li

Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2024, vol. 639, issue C

Abstract: Accurate prediction of lane changing (LC) trajectories plays a vital role in ensuring safe and efficient traffic flow on highways. This paper proposes a LC trajectory prediction model based on encoder-decoder architecture to address low long-term prediction accuracy problem and to gain insight into the underlying motivations of LC behavior. Three specific enhancements were proposed to improve the performance of encoder-decoder. The first enhancement involves the utilization of Neighborhood Component Analysis (NCA) to identify the most relevant input features from driving environment. The second enhancement involves the introduction of heuristic attention to capture intricate time-dependent and environment-dependent patterns of input data. Finally, a trajectory check module was proposed to supervise and adjust the prediction outputs based on vehicle dynamics constraints. The proposed model was trained and evaluated using the HighD dataset. Experimental results demonstrated that the proposed model outperforms improved encoder-decoder architectures designed by previous studies in terms of prediction accuracy in long-term prediction, which the lateral and longitude MAE were 0.041 m and 1.842 m in 5 s prediction duration, respectively. Additionally, it was observed that preceding vehicles in the current and target lane, and following vehicle in the target lane, exert a significantly influential effect on LC maneuvers, which represents the underlying motivations behind LC behavior. The findings of this study contribute to the advancement of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and autonomous vehicles (AVs) by providing an effective LC trajectory prediction.

Keywords: Lane changing trajectory prediction; Highway environment with heterogeneous traffic flow; Heuristic attention-based encoder-decoder model; Lane changing motivations (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.physa.2024.129696

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