Range policy of adaptive cruise control vehicles for improved flow stability and string stability

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 229-237

  Zhou, Jing ^a   Peng, Huei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

Author keywords

Adaptive cruise control; Range policy; String stability; Traffic flow stability

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; BRAKES; COMPUTER SIMULATION; PERTURBATION TECHNIQUES; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL; STRING STABILITY; TRAFFIC DENSITY; TRAFFIC FLOW STABILITY;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS;

EID: 21644459284     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2005.848359     Document Type: Article

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