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Accurate traffic flow parameters are the supporting data for analyzing traffic flow characteristics. Vehicle detection using traffic surveillance pictures is a typical method for gathering traffic flow characteristics in urban traffic scenes. In complicated lighting conditions at night, however, neither classical nor deep-learning-based image processing algorithms can provide adequate detection results. This study proposes a fusion technique combining millimeter-wave radar data with image data to compensate for the lack of image-based vehicle detection under complicated lighting to complete all-day parameters collection. The proposed method is based on an object detector named CenterNet. Taking this network as the cornerstone, we fused millimeter-wave radar data into it to improve the robustness of vehicle detection and reduce the time-consuming postcalculation of traffic flow parameters collection. We collected a new dataset to train the proposed method, which consists of 1000 natural daytime images and 1000 simulated nighttime images with a total of 23094 vehicles counted, where the simulated nighttime images are generated by a style translator named CycleGAN to reduce labeling workload. Another four datasets of 2400 images containing 20161 vehicles were collected to test the proposed method. The experimental results show that the method proposed has good adaptability and robustness at natural daytime and nighttime scenes., Author(s): Shaojie Jin [1]; Ying Gao [1]; Shoucai Jing [1]; Fei Hui (corresponding author) [1]; Xiangmo Zhao [1]; Jianzhen Liu [2] 1. Introduction Traffic flow parameters are the most fundamental [...]

Lane changing is an important scenario in traffic environments, and accurate prediction of lane-changing behavior is essential to ensure traffic and driver safety. To achieve this goal, a vehicle lane-changing prediction model based on game theory and deep learning is developed. In the game theory component, the interaction between vehicles during lane changing is analyzed according to the running state of the vehicle, with the probability of lane changing as its output. For the deep-learning component, long short-term memory and a convolutional neural network are used to extract and learn data features during the lane-changing process as well as combine the output of the game theory component to obtain the prediction result of whether the vehicle will change lanes. By using an open-source traffic dataset to train and verify the proposed model, the verification results show that the prediction accuracy can reach 94.56% within 0.4s of lane-changing operation and that the model can achieve timely and accurate prediction of the lane-changing behavior of vehicles., Author(s): Shuo Jia [1]; Fei Hui (corresponding author) [1]; Cheng Wei [1]; Xiangmo Zhao [1]; Jianbei Liu [2] 1. Introduction Drivers' driving operations are closely related to road traffic safety; [...]

Vehicle platooning is a perspective technique for intelligent transportation systems (ITS). Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) use dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) to form a convoy, in which the following vehicles can receive the information from their preceding vehicles to achieve safe automated driving and maintain a short headway. Consequently, a vehicle platoon can improve traffic safety and efficiency, further reducing fuel consumption. However, emergency braking inevitably occurs when the platoon meets an accident or a sudden mechanical failure. It is more critical when the wireless communication got delays. Therefore, “how to predefine a minimum safe distance (MSD) considering communication delay” is a challenging issue. To this end, a series of field tests were carried out to measure the communication delay of IEEE 802.11p that is the underlying protocol of DSRC. Subsequently, MSD is modeled and analyzed when the platoon travels at accelerating, cruising, and decelerating states. More importantly, the results of field tests are applied in the models to investigate the impact of communication delay on MSD in practice. The simulation results verify that the proposed model can effectively maintain the platooning vehicles' safety even if emergency braking happens with certain communication delays., Author(s): Mengyan Hu [1]; Xiangmo Zhao [1]; Fei Hui [1]; Bin Tian (corresponding author) [1]; Zhigang Xu [1]; Xinrui Zhang [1] 1. Introduction Nowadays, roadway traffic continues to cause congestion, [...]

A correct lane-changing plays a crucial role in traffic safety. Predicting the lane-changing behavior of a driver can improve the driving safety significantly. In this paper, a hybrid neural network prediction model based on recurrent neural network (RNN) and fully connected neural network (FC) is proposed to predict lane-changing behavior accurately and improve the prospective time of prediction. The dynamic time window is proposed to extract the lane-changing features which include driver physiological data, vehicle kinematics data, and driver kinematics data. The effectiveness of the proposed model is validated through the experiments in real traffic scenarios. Besides, the proposed model is compared with five prediction models, and the results show that the proposed prediction model can effectively predict the lane-changing behavior more accurate and earlier than the other models. The proposed model achieves the prediction accuracy of 93.5% and improves the prospective time of prediction by about 2.1s on average., Author(s): Cheng Wei [1]; Fei Hui (corresponding author) [1]; Asad J. Khattak [1,2] 1. Introduction Driver lane-changing behavior is a key factor in driving safety. An improper lane-changing behavior may [...]

Red blood cell (RBC) storage solution is used for suspending and preserving RBCs for later use in in vitro immunohematology testing. Proper RBC preservation is crucial for obtaining accurate results in RBC phenotyping and pretransfusion antibody screening tests. Haemolysis or RBC antigen degradation during storage can result in inaccurate RBC phenotyping, thereby decreasing the sensitivity of pretransfusion antibody screening and identification assays. The conventional RBC storage solutions usually contain adenosine, adenine, and antibiotics. We designed an RBC storage solution and determined whether it could preserve RBC integrity for 70 days. The new storage solution has a different formula from that of the conventional solution—in particular, it is strengthened with polyethylene glycol (PEG). The extent of haemolysis and hemagglutination reactivity of the RBC antigen systems, Rh, Duffy, Kidd, Lewis, MNS, P1, and the rare antigen Mia (which has a low prevalence antigen in most parts of the world but a higher prevalence in Taiwan), in the new RBC storage solution was compared with that of the conventionally preserved RBC storage solution. The RBCs preserved in the new solution for 70 days retained a similar haemolysis grade as those preserved in the control solution for 28 days. Although both solutions largely preserved RBC antigenicity, the decline in RBC hemagglutination scores in new solution often occurred later than that in the control solution in most antigen phenotyping assays, especially labile antigens such as D, P1, and M. The new solution reduces haemolysis more effectively and preserves antigenicity throughout the 70-day storage period. Moreover, Mia antigen is more stable in the experimental group. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The existing model of sudden acceleration changes, referred to as the traffic jerk effect, is mostly based on theoretical hypotheses, and previous research has mainly focused on traditional traffic flow. To this end, this paper investigates the change in the traffic jerk effect between inactive and active vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications based on field experimental data. Data mining results show that the correlation between the jerk effect and the driving behavior increases by 50.6% on average when V2V messages are received. In light of the data analysis results, a new car-following model is proposed to explore the jerk effect in a connected environment. The model parameters are calibrated, and the results show that the standard deviation between the new model simulation data and the observed data decreases by 38.2% compared to that of the full velocity difference (FVD) model. Linear and nonlinear analyses of the calibrated model are then carried out to evaluate the connected traffic flow stability. Finally, the theoretical analysis is verified by simulation experiments. Both the theoretical and simulation results show that the headway amplitude and velocity fluctuations are reduced when considering the jerk effect in a connected environment, and the traffic flow stability is improved., 1. Introduction As the basis of microscopic traffic flow, the car-following model [1, 2] is used to describe the motion characteristics of a vehicle that follows another vehicle. This situation [...]