TY - JOUR ID - TI - MODELING DRIVER BEHAVIOR FOR TWO AND THREE LANE SECTIONS IN IRAQI RURAL ROADS AU - Hamid Athab Al-Jameel AU - Ali Jihad Kadhim PY - 2017 VL - 10 IS - 4 SP - 431 EP - 450 JO - Al-Qadisiyah Journal for Engineering Sciences مجلة القادسية للعلوم الهندسية SN - 19984456 24117773 AB - Modeling driver behavior is the corner stone for any traffic simulation model. Driving behavior is a complex task to mimic the reality by simulation model. This study has focused on collecting field data from several rural road sites. These data include lane utilization, lane changing and headway. Then, a simulation model has been developed for representing the driver behavior at rural roads. Car-following model developed in this study is safety one. Then, lane changing hybrid model has been developed according to the suggested assumptions by previous studies and collected field data to match the real behavior. Gap acceptance model has been adopted from previous studies which show good consistency with real driver behavior through comparing with other characteristics such as lane changing and lane utilization. The developed model has been calibrated with field data and showed encouraging results

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