Heydecker, BG;
Scarinci, R;
Hegyi, A;
(2015)
Analysis of Traffic Performance of a Merging Assistant Strategy Using Cooperative Vehicles.
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
, 16
(4)
pp. 2094-2103.
10.1109/TITS.2015.2394772.
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Abstract
Emerging in-car communication technologies continually offer new communication capabilities between vehicles and infrastructure that, together with more accurate positioning systems, can be used to improve the use of current infrastructure. The aim of this paper is to present a novel merging assistant strategy that exploits cooperative systems to reduce congestion at motorway junctions. This new system, called Cooperative Merging Assistant, groups main carriageway vehicles together and collects the inter-vehicle spaces into gaps that are usable by merging traffic. These gaps will facilitate the coordinated entry of platoons of vehicles released by an on-ramp traffic signal. The performance of this new system is evaluated using microscopic simulation. Results show the reduction of late-merging vehicles, decrease in congestion and increase of merging capacity. This study shows how the use of cooperative systems can improve the the merging maneuver and so lead to a reduction of congestion on motorways.
| Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| Title: | Analysis of Traffic Performance of a Merging Assistant Strategy Using Cooperative Vehicles |
| Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
| DOI: | 10.1109/TITS.2015.2394772 |
| Publisher version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2015.2394772 |
| Language: | English |
| Additional information: | © 2015 IEEE. Personal use of this material is permitted. Permission from IEEE must be obtained for all other uses, in any current or future media, including reprinting/republishing this material for advertising or promotional purposes, creating new collective works, for resale or redistribution to servers or lists, or reuse of any copyrighted component of this work in other works. |
| Keywords: | active traffic management, facilitated motorway merging, intelligent vehicle, automated vehicle, cooperative adaptive cruise control, on-board display |
| UCL classification: | UCL UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science UCL > Provost and Vice Provost Offices > UCL BEAMS > Faculty of Engineering Science > Dept of Civil, Environ and Geomatic Eng |
| URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1460741 |
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