Exploitation of ACC systems towards improved traffic flow efficiency on motorways

Anastasia Spiliopoulou; Georgia Perraki; Markos Papageorgiou; Claudio Roncoli

doi:10.1109/MTITS.2017.8005706

Exploitation of ACC systems towards improved traffic flow efficiency on motorways

Anastasia Spiliopoulou, Georgia Perraki, Markos Papageorgiou, Claudio Roncoli

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Technical University of Crete

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Abstract

This study presents an ACC (Adaptive Cruise Control)-based traffic control strategy which aims to adapt in real time the driving behavior of ACC-equipped vehicles to the prevailing traffic conditions so that the motorway traffic flow efficiency is improved. The potential benefits obtained by applying the proposed control concept are demonstrated for different ACC penetration rates by use of validated microscopic simulation applied to a real motorway stretch where recurrent traffic congestion is created due to an on-ramp bottleneck. The simulation results demonstrate that, even for low penetration rates of ACC vehicles, the proposed control concept improves the average vehicle delay and fuel consumption by reducing the space-time extent of congestion compared to the case of only manually driven or regular ACC vehicles.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, MT-ITS 2017 - Proceedings
Publisher	IEEE
Pages	37-43
Number of pages	7
ISBN (Electronic)	9781509064847
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1109/MTITS.2017.8005706
Publication status	Published - 8 Aug 2017
MoE publication type	A4 Article in a conference publication
Event	IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems - Naples, Italy Duration: 26 Jun 2017 → 28 Jun 2017 Conference number: 5

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Conference	IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems
Abbreviated title	MT-ITS
Country/Territory	Italy
City	Naples
Period	26/06/2017 → 28/06/2017

Keywords

Adaptive cruise control (ACC)
microscopic simulation
motorway traffic control

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Spiliopoulou, A, Perraki, G, Papageorgiou, M & Roncoli, C 2017, Exploitation of ACC systems towards improved traffic flow efficiency on motorways. in 5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, MT-ITS 2017 - Proceedings., 8005706, IEEE, pp. 37-43, IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, Naples, Italy, 26/06/2017. https://doi.org/10.1109/MTITS.2017.8005706

Exploitation of ACC systems towards improved traffic flow efficiency on motorways. / Spiliopoulou, Anastasia; Perraki, Georgia; Papageorgiou, Markos et al.

5th IEEE International Conference on Models and Technologies for Intelligent Transportation Systems, MT-ITS 2017 - Proceedings. IEEE, 2017. p. 37-43 8005706.

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