A study on the effective road capacity and the modified road capacity: new evaluation parameters for traffic flow evaluation

Author

Widodo, Ari ; Hasegawa, Takaaki

Author_Institution

Dept. of Electr. & Electron. Syst. Eng., Saitama Univ., Urawa, Japan

fYear

1999

fDate

6/21/1905 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

617

Lastpage

621

Abstract

In this paper effective road capacity and modified road capacity are proposed as new parameters for traffic flow evaluation. By using these parameters, possible impacts of an inter-vehicle communications network under autonomous cruising and platooning are evaluated. These evaluations are carried out using the interchange highway road traffic flow simulator developed by the authors. It is shown that an inter-vehicle communications network is effective for improving the modified road capacity

Keywords

automated highways; digital simulation; road traffic; traffic engineering computing; autonomous cruising; autonomous platooning; effective road capacity; inter-vehicle communications network; interchange highway road traffic flow simulator; modified road capacity; traffic flow evaluation; Adaptive control; Communication networks; Intelligent networks; Intelligent systems; Remotely operated vehicles; Road accidents; Road transportation; Road vehicles; Telecommunication traffic; Traffic control;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Transportation Systems, 1999. Proceedings. 1999 IEEE/IEEJ/JSAI International Conference on

Conference_Location

Tokyo

Print_ISBN

0-7803-4975-X

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ITSC.1999.821132

Filename

821132