Reducing greenhouse effects via fuel consumption-aware variable speed limit (FC-VSL)

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 111-122

  Liu, Bojin ^a   Ghosal, Dipak ^a   Chuah, Chen Nee ^a   Zhang, H Michael ^a  

^a University of California Davis   (United States)

Author keywords

Fuel economy; intelligent transportation system; minimize greenhouse gas emissions; optimal control; simulation analysis; variable speed limit; vehicle infrastructure integration; vehicular ad hoc network

Indexed keywords

INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; OPTIMAL CONTROLS; SIMULATION ANALYSIS; VARIABLE SPEED LIMITS; VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS;

CARBON DIOXIDE; CONTROL; FOSSIL FUELS; FUELS; GAS EMISSIONS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GREENHOUSE GASES; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; SPEED CONTROL; TRAFFIC CONTROL;

FUEL ECONOMY;

EID: 84862967101     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2011.2170595     Document Type: Article

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