On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Automated Highways

Stacy Patterson; Bassam Bamieh; Amr El Abbadi; Mihailo Jovanovic

1st International ICST Workshop on Computational Transportation Science

Research Article

On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Automated Highways

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    author={Stacy Patterson and Bassam Bamieh and Amr El Abbadi and Mihailo Jovanovic},
    title={On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Automated Highways},
    proceedings={1st International ICST Workshop on Computational Transportation Science},
    publisher={ACM},
    proceedings_a={IWCTS},
    year={2010},
    month={5},
    keywords={},
    doi={10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2008.3940}
}

Stacy Patterson
Bassam Bamieh
Amr El Abbadi
Mihailo Jovanovic
Year: 2010
On the Feasibility of Large-Scale Automated Highways
IWCTS
ICST
DOI: 10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2008.3940

Stacy Patterson¹^,*, Bassam Bamieh²^,*, Amr El Abbadi¹^,*, Mihailo Jovanovic³^,*

1: Dept. of Computer Science, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
2: Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of California, Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93106
3: Dept. of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455

*Contact email: sep@cs.ucsb.edu, bamieh@engineering.ucsb.edu, amr@cs.ucsb.edu, mihailo@umn.edu

Abstract

We investigate the use of large-scale Automated Highway Systems, also called one-dimensional vehicle platoons, as a practical traffic mitigation solution. We review recent theoretical results related to vehicle platooning and discuss their implications on the scalability and safety of large-scale platoons. We also quantify the performance of different platoon control strategies through simulations that use realistic models of vehicle dynamics and sensor accuracy.

Published: 2010-05-16
Publisher: ACM
Modified: 2010-05-16

: http://dx.doi.org/10.4108/ICST.MOBIQUITOUS2008.3940