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Analysis of Traffic Performance of a Merging Assistant Strategy Using Cooperative Vehicles

Scarinci, Riccardo  
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Heydecker, Benjamin
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Hegyi, Andreas
2015
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems

Emerging in-car communication technologies continually offer new communication capabilities between vehicles and infrastructure that, together with more accurate positioning systems, can be used to improve the use of current infrastructure. The aim of this paper is to present a novel merging assistant strategy that exploits cooperative systems to reduce congestion at motorway junctions. This new system, called Cooperative Merging Assistant, groups main carriageway vehicles together and collects the intervehicle spaces into gaps that are usable by merging traffic. These gaps will facilitate the coordinated entry of platoons of vehicles released by an on-ramp traffic signal. The performance of this new system is evaluated using microscopic simulation. Results show the reduction of late-merging vehicles, decrease in congestion and increase of merging capacity. This study shows how the use of cooperative systems can improve the merging maneuver and thus lead to a reduction of congestion on motorways. © 2000-2011 IEEE.

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DOI
10.1109/TITS.2015.2394772
Author(s)
Scarinci, Riccardo  
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Heydecker, Benjamin
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Hegyi, Andreas
Date Issued

2015

Published in
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Volume

16

Issue

4

Start page

2094

End page

2103

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REVIEWED

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October 15, 2015
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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/handle/20.500.14299/119837
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