Distributed platoon assignment and lane selection for traffic flow optimization

IEEE Intelligent Vehicles Symposium, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 739-744

  Dao, Thanh Son ^a   Clark, Christopher Michael ^b   Huissoon, Jan Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

^b CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT VEHICLE HIGHWAY SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAFFIC SURVEYS;

ASSIGNMENT STRATEGIES; DISTRIBUTED CONTROL STRATEGIES; HIGHWAY VEHICLES; INTER-VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; SIMULATION RESULTS; TRAFFIC FLOWS; TRAFFIC SAFETIES; TRAVEL DISTANCES; TRAVEL TIMES;

VEHICLES;

EID: 57749168792     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IVS.2008.4621202     Document Type: Conference Paper

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