Towards reducing traffic congestion using cooperative adaptive cruise control on a freeway with a ramp

Journal of Industrial Engineering and Management

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 699-717

  Arnaout, George ^a   Bowling, Shannon ^b  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BLUEFIELD STATE COLLEGE   (United States)

Author keywords

Agent based traffic simulation; Cooperative adaptive cruise control; Intelligent transportation systems; Traffic simulation; Vehicular ad hoc networks

Indexed keywords

AD HOC NETWORKS; ADAPTIVE CONTROL SYSTEMS; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMOBILE EXHIBITIONS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH; COMMERCE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EMERGENCY VEHICLES; EXPERIMENTS; HUMAN ENGINEERING; INTELLIGENT SYSTEMS; MOBILE AD HOC NETWORKS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; REAL VARIABLES; VEHICLE ACTUATED SIGNALS;

COOPERATIVE ADAPTIVE CRUISE CONTROL; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS; TRAFFIC SIMULATION; TRAFFIC SIMULATIONS; VEHICULAR AD HOC NETWORKS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

EID: 84930485832     PISSN: 20138423     EISSN: 20130953     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3926/jiem.344     Document Type: Article

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