Reference
L. D. Baskar, B. De Schutter, J.
Hellendoorn, and A. Tarău, "Traffic management for intelligent vehicle
highway systems using model-based predictive control,"
Proceedings of the 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation
Research Board, Washington, DC, 15 pp., Jan. 2009. Paper 09-2107.
Abstract
In this paper we present an integrated traffic management and control approach
for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS). These IVHS consist of
interacting roadside controllers and intelligent vehicles that are organized in
platoons with short intraplatoon distances, and larger distances between
platoons. All vehicles are assumed to be fully automated, i.e., throttle,
braking, and steering commands are determined by an automated on-board
controller. The proposed control approach is based on a hierarchical traffic
management and control architecture for IVHS, and it also takes the connection
and transition between the non-automated part of the road network and the IVHS
into account. In particular, we combine dynamic speed limits and lane
allocation for the platoons on the IVHS highways with access control for the
on-ramps using ramp metering, and we propose a model-based predictive control
approach to determine optimal speed limits and lane allocations as well as
optimal release times for the platoons at the on-ramps. In order to illustrate
the potential of the proposed traffic control method, we apply it to a simple
simulation example in which the aim is to minimize the total time all vehicles
spend in the network by optimally assigning dynamic speed limits, lane
allocations, and on-ramp release times to the platoons. For the case study the
platoon-based approach results in a performance improvement of about 9%
compared to the situation with controlled human drivers.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings{BasDeS:08-026,
author = {Baskar, Lakshmi Devi and De Schutter, Bart and Hellendoorn,
Johannes and Tar{\u{a}}u, Alina},
title = {Traffic Management for Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems
Using Model-Based Predictive Control},
booktitle = {Proceedings of the 88th Annual Meeting of the Transportation
Research Board},
address = {Washington, DC},
month = jan,
year = {2009},
note = {Paper 09-2107}
}