Collaborative merging strategy for freeway ramp operations in a connected and autonomous vehicles environment

Y Xie, H Zhang, NH Gartner… - Journal of Intelligent …, 2017 - Taylor & Francis
In a connected vehicle environment, vehicles are able to communicate and exchange
detailed information such as speed, acceleration, and position in real time. Such information …

[HTML][HTML] Flow-level coordination of connected and autonomous vehicles in multilane freeway ramp merging areas

J Zhu, I Tasic, X Qu - Multimodal transportation, 2022 - Elsevier
On-ramp merging areas are deemed to be typical bottlenecks for freeway networks due to
the intensive disturbances induced by the frequent merging, weaving, and lane-changing …

Merging control strategies of connected and autonomous vehicles at freeway on-ramps: A comprehensive review

J Zhu, S Easa, K Gao - Journal of intelligent and connected …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Purpose-On-ramp merging areas are typical bottlenecks in the freeway network since
merging on-ramp vehicles may cause intensive disturbances on the mainline traffic flow and …

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 platoon-based hierarchical merging control for on-ramp vehicles under connected environment

Y Xue, C Ding, B Yu, W Wang - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected autonomous vehicle technology is conductive to promoting the transition from
traditional merging control (eg, ramp metering) to automated merging control. This paper …

On the impact of cooperative autonomous vehicles in improving freeway merging: a modified intelligent driver model-based approach

M Zhou, X Qu, S Jin - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Transport researchers and practitioners have long been seeking capable solutions to deal
with the traffic oscillations caused by freeway merging. Although existing approaches based …

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 …

Multi-lane coordinated control strategy of connected and automated vehicles for on-ramp merging area based on cooperative game

L Yang, J Zhan, WL Shang, S Fang… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Ramp merging represents a bottleneck scenario that causes traffic congestion, accidents,
and increases emissions. Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) can realize the …

Automated on‐ramp merging control algorithm based on Internet‐connected vehicles

Y Wang, WE, W Tang, D Tian, G Lu… - IET Intelligent Transport …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
With the rapid development of Information and Communication Technologies, vehicular
networks that communicate with each other will have an innovative application in traffic …