Cooperative merging strategy for connected vehicles at highway on-ramps

L Xu, J Lu, B Ran, F Yang, J Zhang - Journal of Transportation …, 2019 - ascelibrary.org
As traffic demands increase rapidly on highways, effective merging strategies are necessary
to cooperate with intelligent vehicles and improve traffic operations. Existing merging …

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 …

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 …

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 …

Optimal traffic merging strategy for communication-and sensor-enabled vehicles

T Awal, L Kulik… - 16th International IEEE …, 2013 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Attaining efficient road traffic through optimizing travel time and energy consumption without
compromising safety is a key goal in transport telematics. Lane-changes and merging have …

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 …

Analysis of traffic performance of a merging assistant strategy using cooperative vehicles

R Scarinci, B Heydecker, A Hegyi - IEEE Transactions on …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Emerging in-car communication technologies continually offer new communication
capabilities between vehicles and infrastructure that, together with more accurate …

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 …

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 …

A novel hierarchical cooperative merging control model of connected and automated vehicles featuring flexible merging positions in system optimization

Z Tang, H Zhu, X Zhang, M Iryo-Asano… - … research part C …, 2022 - Elsevier
Merging sections on freeways are typical bottlenecks for traffic efficiency and safety. The
connected and automated vehicles (CAV) technology has great capability in improving traffic …