Adaptive cruise control design for active congestion avoidance

Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies

Volumn 16, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 668-683

  Kesting, Arne ^a   Treiber, Martin ^a   Schönhof, Martin ^a   Helbing, Dirk ^a,b  

^a DRESDEN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (Hungary)

Author keywords

Adaptive cruise control (ACC); Car following models; Driver assistance system; Driving strategy; GPS; Microscopic traffic simulation; Traffic state detection

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AUTOMOBILE DRIVERS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; ROADS AND STREETS; STREET TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL TIME; VEHICLES;

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL (ACC); CAR FOLLOWING MODELS; DRIVER ASSISTANCE SYSTEM; DRIVING STRATEGY; MICROSCOPIC TRAFFIC SIMULATION; TRAFFIC STATE DETECTION;

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL;

ALGORITHM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DESIGN; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; MODELING; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 52049094165     PISSN: 0968090X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trc.2007.12.004     Document Type: Article

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