A Driving-Preference-Aware Framework for Vehicle Lane Change Prediction

With the development of intelligent connected vehicle and artificial intelligence technologies, mixed traffic scenarios where autonomous and human-driven vehicles coexist are becoming increasingly common. Autonomous vehicles need to accurately predict the lane change behavior of preceding vehicles to ensure safety. However, lane change behavior of human-driven vehicles is influenced by both environmental factors and driver preferences, which increases its uncertainty and makes prediction more difficult. To address this challenge, this paper focuses on the mining of driving preferences and the prediction of lane change behavior. We clarify the definition of driving preference and its relationship with driving style and construct a representation of driving operations based on vehicle dynamics parameters and statistical features. A preference feature extractor based on the SimCLR contrastive learning framework is designed to capture high-dimensional driving preference features through unsupervised learning, effectively distinguishing between aggressive, normal, and conservative driving styles. Furthermore, a dual-branch lane change prediction model is proposed, which fuses explicit temporal features of vehicle states with implicit driving preference features, enabling efficient integration of multi-source information. Experimental results on the HighD dataset show that the proposed model significantly outperforms traditional models such as Transformer and LSTM in lane change prediction accuracy, providing technical support for improving the safety and human-likeness of autonomous driving decision-making.