Our current transportation system suffers from a number of problems in terms of safety, mobility, and environmental sustainability. The emergence of innovative intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies, and in particular connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), provides many opportunities to address the aforementioned issues. In this paper, we propose a hierarchical ramp merging system that not only generates microscopic cooperative maneuvers for CAVs on the ramp to merge into the mainline traffic flow, but also provides controllability of the ramp inflow rate, thereby enabling macroscopic traffic flow control. A centralized optimal control-based approach is proposed to smooth the merging flow, improve the system-wide mobility, and decrease the overall fuel consumption of the network. Linear quadratic trackers in both finite horizon and receding horizon forms are developed to solve the optimization problem in terms of path planning and sequence determination, where a microscopic vehicle fuel consumption model is applied. Extensive traffic simulation runs have been conducted using PTV VISSIM to evaluate the impact of the proposed system on a segment of SR-91 E in Corona, California. The results confirm that under the regulated inflow rate, the proposed system can avoid potential traffic congestion and improve mobility (e.g., VMT/VHT) up to 147%, with a 47% fuel savings compared to the conventional ramp metering and the ramp without any control approach.


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    Titel :

    Optimal Control-Based Eco-Ramp Merging System for Connected and Automated Vehicles


    Beteiligte:
    Zhao, Zhouqiao (Autor:in) / Wu, Guoyuan (Autor:in) / Wang, Ziran (Autor:in) / Barth, Matthew J. (Autor:in)


    Erscheinungsdatum :

    19.10.2020


    Format / Umfang :

    501460 byte





    Medientyp :

    Aufsatz (Konferenz)


    Format :

    Elektronische Ressource


    Sprache :

    Englisch



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