The Impact of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control on Traffic-Flow Characteristics

Arem van, Bart and Driel van, Cornelie J.G. and Visser, Ruben (2006) The Impact of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control on Traffic-Flow Characteristics. IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems, 7 (4). pp. 429-436. ISSN 1524-9050

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Abstract:	Cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) is an extension of ACC. In addition to measuring the distance to a predecessor, a vehicle can also exchange information with a predecessor by wireless communication. This enables a vehicle to follow its predecessor at a closer distance under tighter control. This paper focuses on the impact of CACC on traffic-flow characteristics. It uses the traffic-flow simulation model MIXIC that was specially designed to study the impact of intelligent vehicles on traffic flow. The authors study the impacts of CACC for a highway-merging scenario from four to three lanes. The results show an improvement of traffic-flow stability and a slight increase in traffic-flow efficiency compared with the merging scenario without equipped vehicles.
Item Type:	Article
Copyright:	© 2006 IEEE
Research Group:	Centre for Transport Studies (CTS)
Link to this item:	http://purl.utwente.nl/publications/58157
Official URL:	http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2006.884615
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