A review of connected and automated vehicle platoon merging and splitting operations

Q Li, Z Chen, X Li - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) platoons have drawn much attention in the past
decades, given their potential to reduce fuel consumption, elevate roadway capacity, and …

Trajectory planning for autonomous modular vehicle docking and autonomous vehicle platooning operations

Q Li, X Li - Transportation Research Part E: Logistics and …, 2022 - Elsevier
Emerging autonomous modular vehicle (AMV) technology allows vehicle units to physically
dock on or split from each other en route to form vehicles of different lengths. This …

A decentralized robust control approach for virtually coupled train sets

MA Vaquero‐Serrano, J Felez - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
In this paper, a novel approach to train control systems based on virtual coupling is
presented. Virtual coupling is a concept that has evolved from platooning of vehicles and …

Safety performance evaluation of freeway merging areas under autonomous vehicles environment using a co-simulation platform

P Chen, H Ni, L Wang, G Yu, J Sun - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2024 - Elsevier
Merging areas serve as the potential bottlenecks for continuous traffic flow on freeways.
Traffic incidents in freeway merging areas are closely related to decision-making errors of …

Cooperative control of a platoon of connected autonomous vehicles and unconnected human‐driven vehicles

A Zhou, S Peeta, J Wang - Computer‐Aided Civil and …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
By using kinematic state information obtained through vehicle‐to‐vehicle communications,
connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs) can drive cooperatively to alleviate shockwave …

A hybrid virtual–real traffic simulation approach to reproducing the spatiotemporal distribution of bridge loads

J Zhou, W Wu, CC Caprani, Z Tan… - Computer‐Aided Civil …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Current traffic simulation approaches analyze vehicle loads and load effects from a statistical
perspective; however, they fail to reproduce the spatiotemporal distribution of bridge loads …

A coordinated ramp metering framework based on heterogeneous causal inference

C Peng, C Xu - Computer‐Aided Civil and Infrastructure …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The coordinated ramp metering strategy aims to enhance the traffic flow on freeways by
integrating the effects of multiple on‐ramps. The success of this strategy depends heavily on …

Cooperative trajectory control for synchronizing the movement of two connected and autonomous vehicles separated in a mixed traffic flow

J Qiu, L Du - Transportation research part B: methodological, 2023 - Elsevier
When connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are widely used in the future, we can
foresee many essential applications, such as platoon formation and autonomous police …

Effects of automated vehicle models at the mixed traffic situation on a motorway scenario

X Fang, H Li, T Tettamanti, A Eichberger, M Fellendorf - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
There is consensus in industry and academia that Highly Automated Vehicles (HAV) and
Connected Automated Vehicles (CAV) will be launched into the market in the near future …

Multi-agent simulation of autonomous industrial vehicle fleets: Towards dynamic task allocation in V2X cooperation mode

J Grosset, AJ Fougères… - Integrated Computer …, 2024 - content.iospress.com
The smart factory leads to a strong digitalization of industrial processes and continuous
communication between the systems integrated into the production, storage, and supply …