Research Article

Group Gap Acceptance: A New Method to Analyze Driver Behavior and Estimate the Critical Gap at Multilane Roundabouts

Table 1

Summary of past studies.

Author(s)YearAnalysis methodCritical gap (s)Type of roundaboutCity, country

Flannery and Datta [3]2007Maximum likelihood method3.941-laneFlorida and Maryland, USA
Xu and Tian [4]2008Maximum likelihood method4.8California, USA
Mensah et al. [5]2010Raff’s method2.55Maryland, USA
Fitzpatrick et al. [6]2013Raff’s method2.2Massachusetts, USA

Xu and Tian [4]2008Maximum likelihood methodL: 4.70/
R: 4.40
2-laneCalifornia, USA
Guo [7]2010Raff’s method2.91Dalian, China
Revised Raff’s method2.78
Maximum likelihood method2.65
Ashworth method3.2
Kusuma and Koutsopoulos [8]2011Maximum likelihood method3.58Stockholm, Sweden