[sumo-user] Cooperative lane-changing: awareness of blocking followers

[Jimmy Forsman <jimmeyforsman@xxxxxxxxx>]

Hi,

I have a question regarding cooperative lane-changing and the criteria when a vehicle becomes aware of a potential blocking follower. I read that for the lane-changing model, vehicles have knowledge about its surroundings in terms of possible conflicting vehicles approaching the same junction.

For instance, consider a situation where we have vehicles traveling on a motorway with multiple lanes (say, edge1). When a vehicle is approaching the motorway from an entrance (edge2) and is about to merge with the vehicles on the main road (at the common edge3), it is a situation which might call for cooperative lane-changing or cooperative speed reduction. What controls how far away the vehicle on the entrance becomes aware of the vehicles on the main road being potential blocking followers?

Regards,
Jimmy