Incompatibilities between urban transport and land use are rapidly growing in developing countries. Due to this mismatch, vehicle ownership is increasing dreadfully causing urban areas for various problems including congestion and air pollution. This study attempts to investigate the household travel behaviour on vehicle ownership, mode choice and trip sharing aspects by developing a nested log...

Energy management in Hybrid Electric Vehicles (HEV) has been actively studied recently because of its potential to significantly improve fuel economy and emission control. Because of the dual-power-source nature and the complex configuration and operation modes in a HEV, energy management is more complicated and important than in a conventional vehicle. Most of the existing vehicle power optimi...

The need for new transportation paradigms to address the problems associated with widespread dependence on personal automobiles appeared within a few decades of cars becoming available in large numbers, and has been growing ever since. These problems include traffic congestion, noise and air pollution, and the isolation of those without access to private vehicles. Throughout the years, research...

Vehicular networking has established itself, in the short span of the last few years, as one of the most promising fields of research within the larger context of metropolitan-scale wireless networking. Enabling vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-toinfrastructure (V2I) communication, a pervasive deployment of vehicular networking technologies would have an unprecedented impact on mass road tr...

The preceding critical points have motivated a lot of interest in developing applications with DSRC technology to improve safety and mobility of traffic on U.S. highways (3–11). Recently, a remote collision avoidance system using DSRC-based V2V communication was verified (8). Similarly, a DSRC-based secure communication protocol for a vehicle ad hoc network has been proposed by exchanging warni...

This paper analyzes a model of early morning traffic congestion, that is a special case of the model considered in Newell (1988). A fixed number of identical vehicles travel along a single-lane road of constant width from a common origin to a common destination, with LWR flow congestion and Greenshields’ Relation. Vehicles have a common work start time, late arrivals are not permitted, and trip...

The introduction of mobile sensors, i.e. probe vehicles with GPS-enabled smart phones or connected vehicle technology, will potentially provide more comprehensive information on roadway conditions than conventional point detection alone. Several mobility applications have been proposed that utilize this new vehicle-specific data rather than aggregated speed, density, and flow. Because of bandwi...

Vehicle platooning is an enabler technology for increasing road capacity, improving safety and reducing fuel consumption. Platoon control a two-layered system where each layer runs under different communication standard rate – (i) the upper-layer operates specific V2V such as IEEE 802.11p (ii) lower-layer over high-speed in-vehicle networks FlexRay, CAN. The upper-layer, 802.11p, uses periodic ...

This paper analyzes aggregate personal motor-vehicle travel within a simultaneous model of aggregate vehicle travel, fleet size, fuel efficiency, and congestion formation. We measure the impacts of driving costs on congestion, and two other well-known feedback effects affecting motor-vehicle travel: its responses to aggregate road capacity (“induced demand”) and to driving costs including those...