Understanding the Relation between Driver/Vehicle Characteristics and Platoon/Traffic Flow Stability for the Design and Assessment of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control.

Author(s)
Pueboobpaphan, R. & Arem, B. van
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Abstract

Advanced Driver Assistance (ADA) system may change individual driver/vehicle characteristics and influence the overall traffic flow performance. This paper presents an overview of the relation between individual driver/vehicle characteristics and platoon/traffic flow stability under manual, ADA, and mixed traffic. It reviews and categorizes the causes that make traffic flow (un)stable and how the ADA systems influence traffic flow stability. It discusses the definition of traffic flow stability, assessment methodologies, open issues that need further clarification, as well as the implications for the development of ADA systems. In summary, the result of stability analysis depends not only on the driver/vehicle characteristics butalso on the traffic stream characteristics as well as the method used to analyze the stability.

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C 48316 (In: C 47949 DVD) /83 /73 / ITRD E854555
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In: Compendium of papers DVD 89th Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board TRB, Washington, D.C., January 10-14, 2010, 17 p.

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