Research Article

The Roles of Car Following and Lane Changing Drivers’ Anticipations during Vehicle Inserting Process: A Structural Equation Model Approach

Table 7

Indirect path effects.

Anticipating period

Exogenous variable (→)Via endogenous latent variable (→)Endogenous observed variable

/2.5850.829-----0.1490.116--
/----0.1920.596--0.076-0.072
/---3.8222.810----0.571--
//-9.006-4.526--0.4470.522-0.633-0.054
8.908-------0.516----
--3.022------0.423--
--0.780------0.109--
-------13.668----1.667
----2.153----0.848--
-----1.053-----0.415--

Relaxing period

Exogenous variable (→)Via endogenous latent variable (→)Endogenous observed variable

/2.0120.821-----0.0480.018--
------1.850-----0.081
//-8.289-2.554---11.4040.198-0.0560.501
2.039-------0.048----
--5.394------0.118--
---0.965-------0.021--
------3.465-----0.152

Note: (1) “--” means that no indirect path exists between the exogenous and endogenous observed variables, or the path effect is insignificant.
(2) →: the path direction shown in Figure 4.