Cooperative merging control via trajectory optimization in mixed vehicular traffic

M Karimi, C Roncoli, C Alecsandru… - … Research Part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
A major challenging issue related to the emerging mixed traffic vehicular system, composed
of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) together with human-driven vehicles, is the …

Optimal vehicle trajectory planning in the context of cooperative merging on highways

IA Ntousakis, IK Nikolos, M Papageorgiou - Transportation research part C …, 2016 - Elsevier
One of the main triggers of traffic congestion on highways is vehicle merging at on-ramps.
The development of automated procedures for cooperative vehicle merging is aimed to …

Trajectory optimization of connected and autonomous vehicles at a multilane freeway merging area

X Hu, J Sun - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2019 - Elsevier
Merging areas on freeways are primary locations for bottlenecks due to vehicles' mandatory
lateral conflicts. These critical conflicts, however, are potentially avoidable with Connected …

A hierarchical model-based optimization control approach for cooperative merging by connected automated vehicles

N Chen, B van Arem, T Alkim… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Gap selection and dynamic speed profiles of interacting vehicles at on-ramps affect the
safety and efficiency of highway merging sections. This paper puts forward a hierarchical …

Integrated longitudinal and lateral hierarchical control of cooperative merging of connected and automated vehicles at on-ramps

S Jing, F Hui, X Zhao, J Rios-Torres… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can improve traffic safety and transportation
network efficiency while also reducing environmental impacts. However, congestion and …

Automated and cooperative vehicle merging at highway on-ramps

J Rios-Torres, AA Malikopoulos - IEEE Transactions on …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recognition of necessities of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is gaining
momentum. CAVs can improve both transportation network efficiency and safety through …

Cooperative decision-making for mixed traffic: A ramp merging example

Z Sun, T Huang, P Zhang - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2020 - Elsevier
The rapid conceptual development and commercialization of connected automated vehicle
(CAV) has led to the problem of mixed traffic, ie, traffic mixed with CAVs and conventional …

Penetration effect of connected and automated vehicles on cooperative on‐ramp merging

J Ding, H Peng, Y Zhang, L Li - IET Intelligent Transport …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Earlier work has established a centralised cooperative merging framework of optimally
coordinating two strings of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) passing through the …

Safety-critical and flexible cooperative on-ramp merging control of connected and automated vehicles in mixed traffic

H Liu, W Zhuang, G Yin, Z Li… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Cooperative on-ramp merging control for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) can
effectively improve traffic throughput and vehicle fuel efficiency at highway on-ramp merging …

Decentralized merging control in traffic networks: A control barrier function approach

W Xiao, C Belta, CG Cassandras - Proceedings of the 10th ACM/IEEE …, 2019 - dl.acm.org
In this paper, we aim to optimize the process of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs)
merging at a traffic intersection while guaranteeing the state, control and safety constraints …