Title :
Assessing sustainability impacts of route guidance system under cooperative vehicle infrastructure environment
Author :
Park, Byungkyu Brian ; Lee, Joyoung
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Civil & Environ. Eng., Univ. of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA, USA
Abstract :
The sustainability impacts of route guidance system under the cooperative vehicle infrastructure environment were examined under the various market penetration rates of equipped vehicles at 0%, 5%, 25%, 50%, 75%, and 100%. To evaluate the impacts, this study used an advanced simulation test-bed enabling car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure communications based on a microscopic traffic simulation model, VISSIM and a microscopic emission and fuel consumption model, VT-Micro. The simulation results indicated that the route guidance system under the cooperative vehicle infrastructure environment improves air qualities and fuel consumption 10-18% compared to base case.
Keywords :
automated highways; cooperative systems; sustainable development; VISSIM; VT-Micro; advanced simulation test-bed; air quality; car-to-car communication; car-to-infrastructure communication; cooperative vehicle infrastructure environment; equipped vehicles; fuel consumption model; market penetration rates; microscopic emission; microscopic traffic simulation model; route guidance system; sustainability impacts; Carbon dioxide; Engineering management; Environmental management; Fuels; Intelligent transportation systems; Microscopy; Navigation; Testing; Traffic control; Vehicles; Cooperative Vehicle Infrastructure environment; IntelliDrive; Microscopic Simulation; Route Guidance System; Transportation Sustainability; VISSIM;
Conference_Titel :
Sustainable Systems and Technology, 2009. ISSST '09. IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Phoenix, AZ
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4244-4324-6
DOI :
10.1109/ISSST.2009.5156720