Impacts of shorter perception-reaction time of adapted cruise controlled vehicles on traffic flow and safety

Journal of Transportation Engineering

Volumn 129, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 146-154

  Kikuchi, Shinya ^a   Uno, Nobuhiro ^b   Tanaka, Mitsura ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c McCormick Tayler/Associates Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

Simulation; Traffic flow; Vehicles

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FUZZY CONTROL;

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL SYSTEM (ACCS);

VEHICLES;

TRANSPORTATION SAFETY;

EID: 0037337272     PISSN: 0733947X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1061/(ASCE)0733-947X(2003)129:2(146)     Document Type: Article

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