TY - GEN
T1 - Performance study of the lane change control using vehicle communications for alleviating congestion
AU - Morino, Hiroaki
AU - Kage, Yusei
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 IEEE.
PY - 2021/3/22
Y1 - 2021/3/22
N2 - Congestion on expressways due to traffic concentration at sags has been a serious problem over these decades. One of the reasons to make congestion worse is known to be unbalanced lane utilization and lane change behaviors during the initial stage of congestion. This paper evaluates a dynamic lane change control scheme through road to vehicle communication we have presented to balance lane utilization and avoid lane change behavior that could worse congestion. The results of traffic flow simulation show that the time when the control scheme needs to be started before slowdown of cars due to congestion becomes severe, which is achieved by configurating the velocity threshold to detect congestion to be higher value. Also, it is shown that cars performing the control do not experience unfair performance compared to other cars which did not perform the control under the conditions that only a part of cars have road to vehicle communication capability and they participate into the control.
AB - Congestion on expressways due to traffic concentration at sags has been a serious problem over these decades. One of the reasons to make congestion worse is known to be unbalanced lane utilization and lane change behaviors during the initial stage of congestion. This paper evaluates a dynamic lane change control scheme through road to vehicle communication we have presented to balance lane utilization and avoid lane change behavior that could worse congestion. The results of traffic flow simulation show that the time when the control scheme needs to be started before slowdown of cars due to congestion becomes severe, which is achieved by configurating the velocity threshold to detect congestion to be higher value. Also, it is shown that cars performing the control do not experience unfair performance compared to other cars which did not perform the control under the conditions that only a part of cars have road to vehicle communication capability and they participate into the control.
KW - congestion
KW - lane change
KW - mitigation
KW - road to vehicle communication
KW - sag
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U2 - 10.1109/PerComWorkshops51409.2021.9431051
DO - 10.1109/PerComWorkshops51409.2021.9431051
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85107591072
T3 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, PerCom Workshops 2021
SP - 233
EP - 238
BT - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, PerCom Workshops 2021
PB - Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
T2 - 2021 IEEE International Conference on Pervasive Computing and Communications Workshops and other Affiliated Events, PerCom Workshops 2021
Y2 - 22 March 2021 through 26 March 2021
ER -