Reducing traffic jams via VANETs

IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology

Volumn 61, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 3490-3498

  Knorr, Florian ^a   Baselt, Daniel ^b   Schreckenberg, Michael ^a   Mauve, Martin ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DUISBURG ESSEN   (Germany)

^b HEINRICH HEINE UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

Author keywords

Computer simulation; intelligent transportation systems (ITS); traffic control; vehicular ad hoc network (VANET); vehicular and wireless technologies

Indexed keywords

COMMUNICATING VEHICLES; CONGESTED TRAFFIC; FREE FLOW; HUMAN DRIVERS; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; LOOP DETECTOR; MOBILITY MODEL; PENETRATION RATES; TRAFFIC BREAKDOWN; TRAFFIC DATA; TRAFFIC DEMANDS; TRAFFIC FLOW; TRAFFIC JAMS; VEHICLE-TO-VEHICLE COMMUNICATION; WIRELESS TECHNOLOGIES;

AD HOC NETWORKS; EMERGENCY TRAFFIC CONTROL; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS; WIRELESS TELECOMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

COMPUTER SIMULATION;

EID: 84867786482     PISSN: 00189545     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TVT.2012.2209690     Document Type: Article

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