The Neuro‑Memory Fuzzy Inference System (NeMeFIS) is a hierarchical machine learning framework that models car‑following acceleration and deceleration by integrating five human memory types—procedural, working, episodic, semantic, and declarative—through metaheuristics and statistical validation. Trained on 54 models across arterial, collector, and rural highways, NeMeFIS outperforms traditional statistical and conventional machine learning approaches, revealing that declarative memory dominates braking decisions while procedural memory drives acceleration. The system’s robust performance on heterogeneous and homogeneous datasets supports its use in adaptive, human‑like decision systems for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, potentially improving traffic safety.
arXiv:2603. 14841v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Road crashes remain a leading cause of preventable fatalities.
By Joyjit Roy, Samaresh Kumar Singh, Sushanta Das
arXiv:2605.21139v4 Announce Type: replace-cross
Abstract: Current end-to-end autonomous driving models are fundamentally constrained by the behavioral cloning ceiling of imitation learning. While rei...
By Yang Wu, Qiang Meng, Zhaojiang Liu, Youquan Liu, Jian Yang, Jin Xie
PRISM (Proactive Risk Intelligence and Safety Management) is an agentic multi-model architecture designed to shift autonomous transportation safety from reactive crash avoidance to proactive, continuous risk management. It uses inverse crash‑probability modeling to transform binary crash classifiers into dynamic safety scores, and runs three specialized models—trajectory kinematics, environmental risk, and VRU interaction—coordinated by a reinforcement‑learning reasoning layer. Across 1,296 naturalistic driving scenarios, PRISM achieved a mean safety score of 68/100, classified 77.6% of situations as advisory, and flagged 3.8% as near‑misses, with 11% requiring intervention or emergency response, highlighting trajectory risk and VRU proximity as key safety factors.
By Joyjit Roy, Samaresh Kumar Singh, Sushanta Das
The paper presents a lane‑change prediction model using knowledge‑graph embeddings and Bayesian inference to anticipate surrounding vehicles’ intentions 3–4 seconds before they occur. Three driving strategies—reactive, prediction‑based longitudinal, and prediction‑based lateral—are compared in CARLA simulations of risky merging scenarios. Prediction‑based approaches avoid collisions, reduce peak deceleration by up to 91 %, and are evaluated for ride comfort using ISO 2631‑1 vibration estimates.
By Mohamed Manzour, Aditya Kumar, Rub\'en Izquierdo, Miguel \'Angel Sotelo
CAR‑VLA is a Vision‑Language‑Action model for autonomous driving that jointly considers scene complexity and dynamic risk to determine reasoning depth, urgency, and focus. It maps four complexity‑risk categories to three reasoning modes—Fast Intuition, Slow Thinking, and Reflex Response—each tailored to different driving scenarios. The model is trained via progressive supervised learning and reinforcement learning, achieving competitive performance on NAVSIM and Navhard benchmarks and demonstrating risk‑aware reasoning in high‑risk scenarios.
By Xiaolei Chen, Zhuolin He, Yuxuan Liang, Xu Li, Haotian Chen, Fan Shi, Mengyang Zhao, Wenjuan Meng, Zisheng Chen, Zhihao Zhu, Zhounan Jin, Hengli Wang, Qingfan Wang, Jiamei Liang, Bin Li, Xiangyang Xue
arXiv:2607. 23822v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Driving style captures stable, driver-specific patterns in how a vehicle is driven.
By Yuhang Wang, Lingyao Li, Hao Zhou
The paper introduces WM‑RMoE, a World Model‑based Risk‑aware Mixture‑of‑Experts framework for autonomous overtaking. It uses a learned latent dynamics model to perform multi‑step rollouts, evaluating cumulative risk at the trajectory level, and employs a hierarchical gating mechanism to coordinate long‑, short‑horizon, and rule‑based safety experts. A Gaussian Mixture Model preserves multimodal maneuver branches, improving robustness and preventing behavioral averaging, leading to better safety compliance, decision stability, and generalization in experiments.
By Yongzhi Liu, Sunan Zhang, Jinchang Xu, Jiawei Wang, Yushu Qiu, Chen Lv, Weichao Zhuang
arXiv:2606. 29548v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Driver decision making in the dilemma zone at signalized intersections is safety critical, as vehicles approaching a yellow signal must decide whether to stop or proceed within limited time and distance margins.
By Chuheng Wei, Ziye Qin, Ziran Wang, Guoyuan Wu
arXiv:2606. 12500v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: Traffic microsimulation combined with surrogate safety measures has increasingly been used as a proactive alternative to historical crash data for predicting crash frequency for current or planned road infrastructure designs.
By Xian Liu, Carlo G. Prato, Gustav Markkula
arXiv:2607. 07103v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Safe autonomous driving requires both rapid responses to common high-risk events and deeper reasoning over rare, extreme long-tail scenarios in traffic safety.
By Heye Huang, Jingguang Li, Zhiyuan Zhou, Paul Liang, Mingyu Wu, Kitae Jang, Jianqiang Wang
arXiv:2610.01746v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: Autonomous driving systems have become a central focus of intelligent transportation research, with End-to-End Learning and Modular Architectures off...
By Kartik B. Kapse