Hierarchical Traffic Control and Management with Intelligent Vehicles

In this paper we first present a survey on traffic management and control frameworks that are based on intelligent vehicles (IV). This survey includes a short overview of IV-based traffic control measures such as cooperative adaptive cruise control, intelligent speed adaptation, and dynamic route planning. We also discuss various IV-based traffic management architectures such as PATH, Dolphin, Auto21 CDS, etc. Next, we propose a new integrated hierarchical IV-based traffic management control framework that combines the strong points of these architectures and extends them in various directions.