Cooperative Schedule-Driven Intersection Control with Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Recent work in decentralized, schedule-driven traffic control has demonstrated the ability to improve the efficiency of traffic flow in complex urban road networks. In this approach, a scheduling agent is associated with each intersection. Each agent senses the traffic approaching its intersection a...

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Published inarXiv.org
Main Authors Hsu-Chieh Hu, Smith, Stephen F, Goldstein, Rick
Format Paper
LanguageEnglish
Published Ithaca Cornell University Library, arXiv.org 03.07.2019
Subjects
Algorithms
Autonomous vehicles
Cooperative control
Real time
Roads
Schedules
Scheduling
Traffic control
Traffic flow
Traffic intersections
Traffic signals
Vehicles
Wireless communications
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Summary:Recent work in decentralized, schedule-driven traffic control has demonstrated the ability to improve the efficiency of traffic flow in complex urban road networks. In this approach, a scheduling agent is associated with each intersection. Each agent senses the traffic approaching its intersection and in real-time constructs a schedule that minimizes the cumulative wait time of vehicles approaching the intersection over the current look-ahead horizon. In this paper, we propose a cooperative algorithm that utilizes both connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) and schedule-driven traffic control to create better traffic flow in the city. The algorithm enables an intersection scheduling agent to adjust the arrival time of an approaching platoon through use of wireless communication to control the velocity of vehicles. The sequence of approaching platoons is thus shifted toward a new shape that has smaller cumulative delay. We demonstrate how this algorithm outperforms the original approach in a real-time traffic signal control problem.
ISSN:2331-8422