Enhancing Microsimulation Models for Improved Work Zone Planning: Car-Following Data from Northern Virginia (Instances)

The data describe freeway car-following behavior (such as velocity, acceleration, and relative position) for the car-following instances observed during 59 data collection runs, performed through the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center’s (TFHRC) Living Laboratory (LL). Data were collected using an Instrumented Research Vehicle (IRV) along freeways in northern Virginia to better understand work zone driver behaviors. The USDOT Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) identified, isolated, and classified individual car following instances from within the raw datasets (classification parameters included roadway type, level of congestion, and speed limit), then processed, refined, and cleaned the dataset.

This table contains the car-following instances recorded by Volpe staff. See also the runs table (https://datahub.transportation.gov/Automobiles/Enhancing-Microsimulation-Models-for-Improved-Work/285w-yjf5) and radar table (https://datahub.transportation.gov/Automobiles/Enhancing-Microsimulation-Models-for-Improved-Work/uvrt-varj).

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Additional Info

Field Value
Source https://datahub.transportation.gov/d/k74u-yqu6
Version
Author Volpe Center
Author Email
Maintainer
Maintainer Email
Shared (this field will be removed in the future) Open
IB1 Sensitivity Class
IB1 Trust Framework
IB1 Dataset Assurance
IB1 Trust Framework
Common-Core_Bureau-Code 021:15
Common-Core_Contact-Email [email protected]
Common-Core_Contact-Name Andrew Berthaume
Common-Core_Geographic-Coverage -77.0573,38.7046,-77.2278,38.9563
Common-Core_Is-Quality-Data true
Common-Core_Issued 2020-07-22
Common-Core_Last-Update 2020-07-22
Common-Core_License http://www.usa.gov/publicdomain/label/1.0/
Common-Core_Program-Code 021:009
Common-Core_Public-Access-Level public
Common-Core_Publisher US Department of Transportation
Common-Core_Temporal-Applicability 2013-06-17/2013-08-30
categories {transportation}
license Public Domain U.S. Government
owner_display_name Ian Berg
source_created_at 2020-07-22T13:54:40.000Z
source_updated_at 2020-07-27T14:36:39.000Z