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The merging zone in urban expressway is easy to turn into a traffic bottleneck just because of the complex interaction among vehicles there. But with the development of connected vehicle technology, it seems that this problem can be alleviated. This paper designs a system that can harmonize the interaction among connected vehicles in the merging zone, so that they can cross this region in a smaller cost—less average travel time and average fuel consumption. The controller of the system receives the real-time data from vehicles periodically, and sends instructions of the computed solution back to them. At last, Netlogo is utilized to act as a simulation platform to evaluate the proposed system, and the results show that the coordination system of connected vehicles can reduce cost significantly in the merging zone.
This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61273006, 61573030), and Open Project of Beijing Key Laboratory of Urban Road Intelligent Traffic Control (XN070).
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Zhu, C., Chen, Y., Dai, G. (2017). Controller-Based Management of Connected Vehicles in the Urban Expressway Merging Zone. In: Balas, V., Jain, L., Zhao, X. (eds) Information Technology and Intelligent Transportation Systems. Advances in Intelligent Systems and Computing, vol 455. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-38771-0_7
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