On the Impact of Cooperative Autonomous Vehicles in Improving Freeway Merging: A Modified Intelligent Driver Model-Based Approach

IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Volumn 18, Issue 6, 2017, Pages 1422-1428

  Zhou, Mofan ^a   Qu, Xiaobo ^b   Jin, Sheng ^c  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

^c ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

adaptive cruise control (ACC); Autonomous vehicles (AVs); cooperative intelligent driver model (CIDM); detecting technologies; vehicle to vehicle communication

Indexed keywords

EFFICIENCY; MERGING; TRAVEL TIME;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES; CONTROLLING MECHANISM; DETECTING TECHNOLOGY; DIFFERENT PROPORTIONS; INTELLIGENT DRIVER MODELS; MODIFIED INTELLIGENT DRIVER MODELS; THEORETICAL CAPACITY; VEHICLE TO VEHICLES;

VEHICLES;

EID: 84990862394     PISSN: 15249050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TITS.2016.2606492     Document Type: Article

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