Highway capacity benefits from using vehicle-to-vehicle communication and sensors for collision avoidance

IEEE Vehicular Technology Conference

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Tientrakool, Patcharinee ^a   Ho, Ya Chi ^a   Maxemchuk, Nicholas F ^a  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

Author keywords

adaptive cruise control; collision avoidance; highway capacity; vehicle to vehicle communication

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURERS; DRIVING SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY CAPACITY; VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION;

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; AUTOMOBILE MANUFACTURE; COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMMUNICATION; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; SENSORS; TECHNOLOGY; VEHICLES;

AUTOMOBILES;

EID: 83755181554     PISSN: 15502252     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/VETECF.2011.6093130     Document Type: Conference Paper

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