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Close following on highway can often be dangerous and lead to safety-critical situations. The escalation of criticality may vary depending on several operating factors, including roadway conditions, braking capabilities, visibility, and drivers’ reaction time. We analyzed nearly 2 million miles of naturalistic truck data to study truck driver following behavior. Truck drivers were seen to typically follow other vehicles with a headway of less than 2 s, which is equivalent to 50 m if the truck is traveling at a speed of 55 mph. Such small following distance may be dangerous during an unexpected events. Hence, we used formal methods to simulate such unexpected “what-if” situations by varying parameters from driving scenarios and analyze safety from a theoretical point of view, referred to as Responsibility-Sensitive Safety (RSS). Our simulation shows that interstate driving scenarios often violates RSS safety conditions and may lead to safety-critical events.
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This work was partially funded by Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA), as part of National Surface Transportation Safety Center for Excellence (NSTSCE), Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. The opinion expressed in this paper are those of the authors and not represent official positions of any government agency.
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Sarkar, A., Krum, A., Hanowski, R., Hickman, J. (2021). Responsibility Sensitive Safety Analysis of Truck Following in US Highway. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 270. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80012-3_15
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