Optimal control of autonomous vehicles for traffic smoothing

S Wang, R Stern, MW Levin - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2021 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Uniform traffic flow has been shown to be unstable in certain flow regimes due to collective
behaviors of human drivers, resulting in the well-observed stop-and-go waves. These traffic …

Autonomous intersection management: A heuristic approach

AP Chouhan, G Banda - Ieee Access, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Self-driving cars do not sound like a part of science fiction movies anymore. With most of the
automobile giants committed to launching their autonomous cars as soon as possible, it is …

When and where should there be dedicated lanes under mixed traffic of automated and human-driven vehicles for system-level benefits?

A Kumar, S Guhathakurta, S Venkatachalam - Research in Transportation …, 2020 - Elsevier
Automated vehicle (AV) technology is rapidly moving towards reality and will be mature
within the next decade. However, the physical, institutional, and legal infrastructure for …

Autonomous planning and control for intelligent vehicles in traffic

C You, J Lu, D Filev, P Tsiotras - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper addresses the trajectory planning problem for autonomous vehicles in traffic. We
build a stochastic Markov decision process (MDP) model to represent the behaviors of the …

Blue phase: Optimal network traffic control for legacy and autonomous vehicles

D Rey, MW Levin - Transportation research part B: methodological, 2019 - Elsevier
With the forecasted emergence of autonomous vehicles in urban traffic networks, new
control policies are needed to leverage their potential for reducing congestion. While several …

A practical trajectory planning framework for autonomous ground vehicles driving in urban environments

X Li, Z Sun, Z He, Q Zhu, D Liu - 2015 IEEE Intelligent Vehicles …, 2015 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper presents a practical trajectory planning framework towards fully autonomous
driving in urban environments. Firstly, based on the behavioral decision commands, a …

Traffic management with autonomous and connected vehicles at single-lane roundabouts

M Martin-Gasulla, L Elefteriadou - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2021 - Elsevier
The continuous evolution of automotive and communication technologies can result in more
efficient traffic management. At roundabouts, Autonomous and Connected Vehicles (CAVs) …

An analytical optimization approach to the joint trajectory and signal optimization problem for connected automated vehicles

S Soleimaniamiri, A Ghiasi, X Li, Z Huang - Transportation Research Part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
Traffic conflict points (eg, intersections, work-zones) cause travel delay, stop-and-go traffic,
and excessive energy consumption. Efforts have been taken to improve traffic conflict point …

Corridor level cooperative trajectory optimization with connected and automated vehicles

C Yu, Y Feng, HX Liu, W Ma, X Yang - Transportation Research Part C …, 2019 - Elsevier
Trajectory planning for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) has been studied at both
isolated intersections and multiple intersections under the fully CAV environment in the …

Autonomous path planning for road vehicles in narrow environments: An efficient continuous curvature approach

D Kiss, G Tevesz - Journal of advanced transportation, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper we introduce a novel method for obtaining good quality paths for autonomous
road vehicles (eg, cars or buses) in narrow environments. There are many traffic situations in …