Model and Approach of Solid Line Setting Based on Merge Safety and Merge Probability

Round 1

Reviewer 1 Report

The authors examined the requirements and approach of setting a new merge marking. The results of the study recommend setting the solid merge line at service level two and above, and that service level three can be set in some cases. The setting of solid merge line can further increase the vehicle acceleration space, improve the merge speed and enhance the safety of the merge. The merging probability of vehicles is used as the restriction of the model to ensure that vehicles can merge. The safety of merging vehicles is ensured by the safe spacing of merging vehicles. 

The reviewer recommends the paper for publication in its current form.  The results are correct and the literature is sufficient. 

 

Author Response

Thank you very much for your approval of my paper. After another iteration, the article has been added to further broaden its rationality, Thank you again for your review.

 Greetings from all authors.

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Reviewer 2 Report

dear authors

your paper is a good paper, however, I have some suggestions for you

1- I prefer to make a section at the end of the introduction to present the gap of your research and your contribution clearly.

2- in the methodology, I prefer to make a figure for the whole experiment.

3- the conclusion needs to rewrite and present your contribution clearly  

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Reviewer 3 Report

Interesting topic and approach for intersection problems. Good math. Little technical detailing and paper will be great.

Author Response

Thank you very much for your approval of my paper. After another iteration, the article has been added to further broaden its rationality, Thank you again for your review.

 Greetings from all authors.

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Reviewer 4 Report

Thank you for the opportunity to read this paper. The subject is interesting, still, there are some aspects the authors should address in order to enhance the quality of the paper.

First, the subject is very hard to understand by someone with few theoretical notion in the field. It seems to be more a paper from the field of engineering. Thus, the authors should try to include some relevant introductory  theoretical information, at the beginning of the paper, in order for any reader to understand the further presented information. In the current version, the main information is stated too suddenly and the theoretical part should be extended. Please try including a solid literature review, of which to extract the hypotheses of the study.

The introduction part is very generally stated, only on page 2 we can tell that the authors refer to China, but without motivating why this subject was chosen for debate.

Section 2 consists in the "Practical research", but no hypothesis is given for study.

The conclusions part should be extended, by adding further research directions.

 

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Round 2

Reviewer 4 Report

The authors addressed some of the observations, but a more detailed and comprehensive literature review is recommended

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