Analysis of characteristics of mixed traffic flow of autopilot vehicles and manual vehicles

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 5, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 333-348

  Chang, Tang Hsien ^a   Lai, I Shyen ^b  

^a TAMKANG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b Lab ADVANCE F   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Automatic vehicle control system (AVCS); Autopilot equipped vehicle; Car following simulation; Highway capacity; Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS); Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS); Mixed traffic stream

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONTROL SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; INTERCHANGES;

AUTOMATIC VEHICLE CONTROL SYSTEMS (AVCS); AUTOPILOT VEHICLES; CAR FOLLOWING SIMULATION; MIXED TRAFFIC STREAMS;

INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS;

EID: 0031326592     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0968-090X(97)00020-X     Document Type: Article

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