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https://doi.org/10.3141/1679-20

http://scholar.google.com...nadi&publication_year=1999

A single-lane advanced vehicle-highway concept that can increase driving comfort and highway capacity is proposed. The concept can be implemented in the near future as it uses the adaptive cruise control (ACC) technology on vehicles and the intelligent ramp metering technologies on the roadway. A simulation-based performance evaluation of single-lane ACC systems under different traffic conditions is presented. The results indicate that drivers can fully use ACC systems even in stop-and-go-traffic, thereby reducing driving stress. It is also shown that ACC-equipped vehicles can maintain a desired intervehicle gap of 1 s under different traffic conditions while attenuating traffic disturbances, thereby resulting in a traffic flow of up to 3,000 vehicles per hour per lane with properly designed intelligent ramp metering at entrances to such a highway.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1679, Intelligent Transportation Systems, Vehicle-Highway Automation, and Artificial Intelligence.

English

0000-0001-9793-5176

p. 148-157

1999

Transportation Research Record

0309071054

Figures (7) ; References (31)

Adaptive control; Advanced vehicle control systems; Cruise control; Driving; Highway capacity; Intelligent control systems; Ramp metering; Stress (Psychology); Traffic flow; Vehicle spacing

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Dec 1 1999 12:00AM

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