Assisting solution of traffic congestion at sags using inter-vehicle communication with heterogeneous wireless systems

Hiroaki Morino, Takashi Inafune, Takuya Watanabe

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Abstract

Traffic congestions that occur at sags caused by slowdown at uphill are one of prominent problems to be solved. Though there have been extensive studies on reducing congestion due to slowdown, they basically address velocity control of vehicles upstream in the congestion vehicle group. This paper presents a scheme to largely improve the traffic flow to avoid congestion where each vehicle detects the initial state of congestion and alerts all the vehicles running in the whole target area. Upon receiving alert information, a vehicle at the head of the congestion vehicle group and those behind the group perform different velocity control to increase traffic flow. Performance evaluation by simulation using trace data of velocity collected at the highway shows that the proposed scheme improves average velocity by about 50% at maximum compared to the case with no velocity control is applied.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publication2015 IEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2015
EditorsOnur Altintas, Frank Kargl, Eylem Ekici, Christoph Sommer, Michele Segata
PublisherIEEE Computer Society
Pages183-189
Number of pages7
ISBN (Electronic)9781467394116
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2016 Jan 18
EventIEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2015 - Kyoto, Japan
Duration: 2015 Dec 162015 Dec 18

Publication series

NameIEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC
Volume2016-January
ISSN (Print)2157-9857
ISSN (Electronic)2157-9865

Other

OtherIEEE Vehicular Networking Conference, VNC 2015
Country/TerritoryJapan
CityKyoto
Period15/12/1615/12/18

Keywords

  • 700MHz band
  • Traffic congestion
  • inter-vehicle communication
  • jamabsorption driving
  • sag
  • velocity-recovery driving

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Automotive Engineering
  • Control and Systems Engineering
  • Electrical and Electronic Engineering
  • Transportation

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