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An Adaptive Traffic-Flow Management System with a Cooperative Transitional Maneuver for Vehicular Platoons
Globally, the increases in vehicle numbers, traffic congestion, and road accidents are serious issues. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) traveling in platoons provide innovative solutions for efficient traffic flow management, especially for congestion mitigation, thus reducing accidents. In recent years, p...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10007201/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36904684 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23052481 |
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author | Hota, Lopamudra Nayak, Biraja Prasad Sahoo, Bibhudatta Chong, Peter H. J. Kumar, Arun |
author_facet | Hota, Lopamudra Nayak, Biraja Prasad Sahoo, Bibhudatta Chong, Peter H. J. Kumar, Arun |
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description | Globally, the increases in vehicle numbers, traffic congestion, and road accidents are serious issues. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) traveling in platoons provide innovative solutions for efficient traffic flow management, especially for congestion mitigation, thus reducing accidents. In recent years, platoon-based driving, also known as vehicle platoon, has emerged as an extensive research area. Vehicle platooning reduces travel time and increases road capacity by reducing the safety distance between vehicles. For connected and automated vehicles, cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) systems and platoon management systems play a significant role. Platoon vehicles can maintain a closer safety distance due to CACC systems, which are based on vehicle status data obtained through vehicular communications. This paper proposes an adaptive traffic flow and collision avoidance approach for vehicular platoons based on CACC. The proposed approach considers the creation and evolution of platoons to govern the traffic flow during congestion and avoid collisions in uncertain situations. Different obstructing scenarios are identified during travel, and solutions to these challenging situations are proposed. The merge and join maneuvers are performed to help the platoon’s steady movement. The simulation results show a significant improvement in traffic flow due to the mitigation of congestion using platooning, minimizing travel time, and avoiding collisions. |
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spelling | pubmed-100072012023-03-12 An Adaptive Traffic-Flow Management System with a Cooperative Transitional Maneuver for Vehicular Platoons Hota, Lopamudra Nayak, Biraja Prasad Sahoo, Bibhudatta Chong, Peter H. J. Kumar, Arun Sensors (Basel) Article Globally, the increases in vehicle numbers, traffic congestion, and road accidents are serious issues. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) traveling in platoons provide innovative solutions for efficient traffic flow management, especially for congestion mitigation, thus reducing accidents. In recent years, platoon-based driving, also known as vehicle platoon, has emerged as an extensive research area. Vehicle platooning reduces travel time and increases road capacity by reducing the safety distance between vehicles. For connected and automated vehicles, cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) systems and platoon management systems play a significant role. Platoon vehicles can maintain a closer safety distance due to CACC systems, which are based on vehicle status data obtained through vehicular communications. This paper proposes an adaptive traffic flow and collision avoidance approach for vehicular platoons based on CACC. The proposed approach considers the creation and evolution of platoons to govern the traffic flow during congestion and avoid collisions in uncertain situations. Different obstructing scenarios are identified during travel, and solutions to these challenging situations are proposed. The merge and join maneuvers are performed to help the platoon’s steady movement. The simulation results show a significant improvement in traffic flow due to the mitigation of congestion using platooning, minimizing travel time, and avoiding collisions. MDPI 2023-02-23 /pmc/articles/PMC10007201/ /pubmed/36904684 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23052481 Text en © 2023 by the authors. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Licensee MDPI, Basel, Switzerland. This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY) license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). |
spellingShingle | Article Hota, Lopamudra Nayak, Biraja Prasad Sahoo, Bibhudatta Chong, Peter H. J. Kumar, Arun An Adaptive Traffic-Flow Management System with a Cooperative Transitional Maneuver for Vehicular Platoons |
title | An Adaptive Traffic-Flow Management System with a Cooperative Transitional Maneuver for Vehicular Platoons |
title_full | An Adaptive Traffic-Flow Management System with a Cooperative Transitional Maneuver for Vehicular Platoons |
title_fullStr | An Adaptive Traffic-Flow Management System with a Cooperative Transitional Maneuver for Vehicular Platoons |
title_full_unstemmed | An Adaptive Traffic-Flow Management System with a Cooperative Transitional Maneuver for Vehicular Platoons |
title_short | An Adaptive Traffic-Flow Management System with a Cooperative Transitional Maneuver for Vehicular Platoons |
title_sort | adaptive traffic-flow management system with a cooperative transitional maneuver for vehicular platoons |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10007201/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36904684 http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/s23052481 |
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