Title :
Design and performance evaluation of mixed manual and automated control traffic
Author :
Huang, Sunan ; Ren, Wei ; Chan, Steven C.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Electr. Eng., Nat. Univ. of Singapore, Singapore
fDate :
11/1/2000 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
We present a technology which allows manually controlled and automatically controlled vehicles to co-exist, thereby reducing much of the cost and infrastructure requirements in highway automation. An autonomous vehicle driving system (AVDS) is presented which only uses information from vehicle sensors, thereby eliminating the requirement that vehicles communicate with one another. This format allows gradual market penetration of AVDS, which makes the technology attractive from a systems implementation standpoint. To evaluate the performance of the mixed traffic, we simulate manual and automated vehicles together and show that our AVDS can lead to potentially large gains in capacity and smoother flow without the loss of safety
Keywords :
automated highways; decision theory; human factors; road vehicles; automatically controlled vehicles; autonomous vehicle driving system; highway automation; manually controlled vehicles; mixed traffic; performance evaluation; Automated highways; Automatic control; Automation; Costs; Mobile robots; Remotely operated vehicles; Road vehicles; Sensor systems; Vehicle driving; Vehicle safety;
Journal_Title :
Systems, Man and Cybernetics, Part A: Systems and Humans, IEEE Transactions on
DOI :
10.1109/3468.895889