Traffic congestions are increasingly severe in urban areas, especially at the merging areas of the ramps and the arterial roads. Because of the complex conflict relationship of the vehicles in ramps and arterial roads in terms of time-spatial constraints, it is challenging to coordinate the motion of these vehicles, which may easily cause congestions at the merging areas. The connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) provides potential opportunities to solve this problem. A centralized merging control method for CAVs is proposed in this paper, which can organize the traffic movements in merging areas efficiently and safely. In this method, the merging control model is built to formulate the vehicle coordination problem in merging areas, which is then transformed to the discrete nonlinear optimization form. A simulation model is built to verify the proposed method. The simulation results show that the proposed method has significant potential to improve vehicle fuel economy in merging scenarios.
Cooperative Ramp Merging Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles
Sae Technical Papers
SAE 2019 Intelligent and Connected Vehicles Symposium ; 2019
2020-02-24
Conference paper
English
Cooperative Ramp Merging Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles
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