Control Concepts for Facilitating Motorway On-ramp Merging Using Intelligent Vehicles

Transport Reviews

Volumn 34, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 775-797

  Scarinci, Riccardo ^a   Heydecker, Benjamin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

active traffic management; automated vehicle; control algorithm; cooperative adaptive cruise control; intelligent vehicle; motorway merging; on board display

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; MOTORWAY; STRATEGIC APPROACH; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT; TRANSPORTATION DEVELOPMENT; TRANSPORTATION PLANNING;

EID: 84916879651     PISSN: 01441647     EISSN: 14645327     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01441647.2014.983210     Document Type: Article

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