Assessing the impact of a cooperative merging system on highway traffic using a microscopic flow simulator

ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Proceedings (IMECE)

Volumn 12, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Ntousakis, Ioannis A ^a   Porfyri, Kallirroi ^a   Nikolos, Ioannis K ^a   Papageorgiou, Markos ^a  

^a TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Adaptive cruise control; Cooperative merging; Speed synchronization; V2V communication; Vehicle merging

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL; COOPERATIVE COMMUNICATION; CRASHWORTHINESS; CRUISE CONTROL; HIGHWAY ENGINEERING; HIGHWAY TRAFFIC CONTROL; MERGING; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TRANSPORTATION; VEHICLE ACTUATED SIGNALS; VEHICLE TO VEHICLE COMMUNICATIONS; VEHICLES;

COOPERATIVE ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL; MERGING ALGORITHMS; MODEL AND SIMULATION; SPEED SYNCHRONIZATIONS; TRAFFIC CONDITIONS; TRAFFIC SIMULATORS; V2V COMMUNICATIONS; VEHICLE TECHNOLOGY;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84926358395     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/IMECE2014-39850     Document Type: Conference Paper

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