Recently, new research activities have emerged for controlling traffic. Since future vehicles will travel autonomously and communicate with their surrounding environment, they will then be able to negotiate the right-of-way at intersections [cooperative intersection management (CIM)] as well as reserve their itinerary (road reservation). Both concepts, i.e., CIM and road reservation, are very promising for relieving traffic congestion. The scope of this paper is to prevent deadlock under real-time conditions, by taking advantage of these two concepts. This paper presents an appropriate graph to model the network of intersections and a sufficient condition for obtaining deadlock-free traffic with a specified route from their origin to their destination. In addition, it proposes a hierarchical approach in which a network server, intersection servers, and vehicles contribute to improving the traffic condition. Simulations were performed on a network of 25 interconnected intersections, as well as, on a real urban network to prove the effectiveness of the model. The results are presented and discussed.


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    Title :

    Deadlock Prevention of Self-Driving Vehicles in a Network of Intersections




    Publication date :

    2019-11-01


    Size :

    10199891 byte




    Type of media :

    Article (Journal)


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English



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