A stochastic model for chain collisions of vehicles equipped with vehicular communications

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 503-518

  Garcia Costa, Carolina ^a   Egea Lopez, Esteban ^a   Tomas Gabarron, Juan Bautista ^a   Garcia Haro, Joan ^a   Haas, Zygmunt J ^b  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CARTAGENA   (Spain)

^b School of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

Chain collision; collision avoidance; road accidents; stochastic model; vehicle platoon; vehicle safety; vehicular communications

Indexed keywords

AVERAGE NUMBERS; COLLISION PROCESS; COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGIES; DRIVING PARAMETERS; EARLY DESIGN STAGES; EXPONENTIAL DISTRIBUTIONS; ILLUSTRATIVE EXAMPLES; MESSAGE DELAY; MODEL PARAMETERS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; NOTIFICATION SYSTEMS; OTHER STATISTICS; PLATOON OF VEHICLES; TRAFFIC DENSITIES; TRAFFIC SAFETY; VEHICLE COLLISIONS; VEHICLE DENSITY; VEHICLE PLATOONS; VEHICLE SAFETY; VEHICULAR APPLICATIONS; VEHICULAR COMMUNICATIONS;

COLLISION AVOIDANCE; COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; HIGHWAY ACCIDENTS; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS; STOCHASTIC MODELS; VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84861895111     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2011.2171336     Document Type: Article

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