“…Some previous studies indicate that lane changing and lane merge maneuvers account for approximately 5% of all crashes and as high as 7% of all crash fatalities (Chovan, Tijerina, Alexander, & Hendricks, 1994;Habenicht, Winner, Bone, Sasse, & Korzenietz, 2011;Rodemerk, Habenicht, Weitzel, Winner, & Schmitt, 2012). Due to the importance of the lane changing decision, recent literature focus on various aspects of lane changing such as discretionary lane-change characteristics multiple-vehicle collisions (Nagatani & Yonekura, 2014), predicting driver lane changing behavior (Zheng, Nagoya, & Suzuki, 2014), modeling highway lane changing , detecting lane change cut-ins using video images (Lee, Kim, Lee, Lee, & Kim, 2013), lane changing on curved roads (Guo, Ge, Yue, & Zhao, 2014), lane changing and heavy vehicles (Yang, Wang, & Wang, 2014), lane changing rules for microscopic modeling (Hable & Schreckenberg, 2014), and lane changing trajectory tracking (Ren, Zhang, & Wang, 2014).…”