Collaborative merging strategy for freeway ramp operations in a connected and autonomous vehicles environment

Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems: Technology, Planning, and Operations

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2017, Pages 136-147

  Xie, Yuanchang ^a   Zhang, Huixing ^b   Gartner, Nathan H ^a   Arsava, Tugba ^c  

^a University of Massachusetts   (United States)

^b NetScout   (United States)

^c WENTWORTH INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

autonomous driving; connected vehicles; optimization; ramp control; VISSIM

Indexed keywords

CONSTRAINED OPTIMIZATION; MATLAB; MERGING; NONLINEAR PROGRAMMING; OPTIMAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; OPTIMIZATION; TRAFFIC CONTROL; VEHICLES;

AUTONOMOUS DRIVING; COLLABORATIVE DRIVING; CONSTRAINED NON-LINEAR OPTIMIZATIONS; MATLAB OPTIMIZATION TOOLBOX; OPTIMAL CONTROL STRATEGY; RAMP CONTROL; RAMP CONTROL STRATEGIES; VISSIM;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

ACCELERATION; AUTOMATION; CONTROL SYSTEM; OPTIMIZATION; SAFETY; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; VEHICLE COMPONENT;

UNITED STATES;

EID: 84994353635     PISSN: 15472450     EISSN: 15472442     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/15472450.2016.1248288     Document Type: Article

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