Abstract:The traffic behavior in expressway confluence area is complex and the trajectory of vehicle is not fixed, which make the vehicle behavior hard to predict. In order to further study the on-ramp vehicle merging decision-making conditions, under the condition of not making any idealized assumptions, the data of vehicles merging in the expressway confluence area during flat peak and peak periods are collected in whole area. The occurrence conditions of the merging behavior are analyzed by statistically analyzing the frequency distribution of the merging intervals of vehicles in the merging area. It is found that there is a significant interval difference between the peak and flat peak. The initial judgment is that the critical interval of the outside lane peak is about 3 s, and the critical interval of the flat peak is about 2 s. On this basis, the data during the peak period is sorted out, the variables that are more important to the decision-making of vehicle merging are screened out, and a Fisher discriminant model for the decision-making of vehicle merging on the peak ramp is established. Finally, the established model is cross-validated, which is found that the accuracy of the model can reach 87%.