Characteristics of Vehicle Platoons at Isolated Intersections

Michael W . Babcock ARTICLES : Characteristics of Vehicle Platoons at Isolated Intersections 5 Yi Jiang and Shuo Li The Measurement of Grain Barge Demand

Automated Vehicle-to-Vehicle Collision Avoidance at Intersections

We present experimental results for an active control Intersection Collision Avoidance (ICA) system implemented on modified Lexus IS250 test vehicles. The system utilizes vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) to share safety critical state information, allowing for distributed implementation of our provably safe algorithms. Safety is achieved in potential collisio...

Direct adaptive longitudinal control of vehicle platoons

An important aspect of an automated highway system design is the synthesis of an automatic vehicle following system. Associated with automatic vehicle following systems is the problem of the stability of a string of vehicles, i.e., the problem of spacing error propagation, and in some cases, amplification upstream from one vehicle to another, due to some disturbance at the head of the string. R...

Intelligent Crossroads for Vehicle Platoons Reconfiguration

Nowadays, urban environments suffer from recurrent traffic jam with associated side effects. One reason of this is the social implicit priority given to personal cars, which are preferred to public transportation systems the main drawback of which is the time and path rigidity. Recently, some alternative transportation systems have been developed based on size adaptable trains of vehicles calle...

Lidar-based Vehicle Tracking for Stopping Distance Measurement at Intersections

The behavior of vehicles at intersections is complex, spatially distributed, and ever-changing, yet there are few tools to track vehicles through intersections. This is particularly true for intersections that lack overhead views for mounting cameras. This paper proposes the use of a Light Detection and Ranging (LIDAR) sensor to accurately track a vehicle as it passes through an intersection. T...