Title :
Scheduling of connected autonomous vehicles on highway lanes
Author :
Jiajun Hu ; Linghe Kong ; Wei Shu ; Min-You Wu
Author_Institution :
Shanghai Jiao Tong Univ., Shanghai, China
Abstract :
With recent progress in vehicle autonomous driving and vehicular communication technologies, vehicle systems are developing towards fully connected and fully autonomous systems. This paper studies lane assignment strategies for connected autonomous vehicles in a highway scenario and their impact on the overall traffic efficiency and safety. We formulate a model of connected autonomous vehicles, which includes three features: traffic data available online, ultra-short reaction time, and cooperative driving. Based on this model, we propose a novel lane change maneuver Politely Change Lane (PCL), which achieves the tradeoff between traffic safety and efficiency. Its effectiveness is validated and evaluated by extensive simulations. The performance shows that PCL improves both safety and efficiency of the overall traffic, especially with heavy traffic.
Keywords :
road safety; scheduling; traffic engineering computing; PCL; connected autonomous vehicles scheduling; cooperative driving; highway lanes; highway scenario; lane assignment strategies; lane change maneuver; politely change lane; traffic data; traffic efficiency; traffic safety; ultra-short reaction time; vehicle autonomous driving; vehicular communication technologies;
Conference_Titel :
Global Communications Conference (GLOBECOM), 2012 IEEE
Conference_Location :
Anaheim, CA
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-0920-2
Electronic_ISBN :
1930-529X
DOI :
10.1109/GLOCOM.2012.6504005