Surface Transportation

Projects

Project 1     Evaluation of effects of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) vehicles in mixed traffic
      
Investigators: Prof. Petros Ioannou, Margareta Stefanovic
Supported by PATH
 Status: completed

Project 2     Control of heavy-duty vehicles: environmental and fuel economy considerations

Investigators: Prof. Petros Ioannou, Jianlong Zhang
Supported by PATH
Status: completed

 

Project 1


Evaluation of the effects of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) vehicles in mixed traffic

The effects of Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) vehicles mixed with manually driven vehicles on traffic flow characteristics and the environment are evaluated using analysis, simulations and experiments. We demonstrated that the ACC vehicles due to their smooth response by design act as filters of high acceleration vehicle response disturbance that may arise during maneuvers and lane changes resulting into smoother traffic flow and lower pollution.

Reports and Publications:

Final Report

A Bose and P. A. Ioannou, “Evaluation of the environmental effects of Intelligent Cruise Control vehicles”, Journal of the Transportation Research Board, vol. 1774, pp. 90-97, 2001.

A. Bose and P. Ioannou, “Mixed Manual/Semi-Automated Traffic: A Macroscopic Analysis”, Transportation Research Part C: Emerging Technologies, accepted.

A. Bose and P. Ioannou, “Environmental Evaluation of Intelligent Cruise Control (ICC) Vehicles”, Proceedings of IEEE Conference on Intelligent Tranportation Systems, Detroit, Michigan, October, pp. 352 -357, 2000, Invited Paper.

A. Bose and P. Ioannou, “Shock Waves in Mixed Traffic Flow”, 9th IFAC Symposium on Control in Transportation Systems 2000, Germany, June 2000.

P. Ioannou and A. Bose, “Automated Vehicle Control”, Handbook of Transportation Science, Edited by Randolph Hall, pp. 187-232, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1999.

A. Bose and P. Ioannou, “Analysis of traffic flow with mixed manual and semi-automated vehicles”, Proceedings of the 1999 American Control Conference, pp. 2173-2177, San Diego, June 1999.

A. Bose and P. Ioannou, “Analysis of traffic flow with mixed manual and semi-automated vehicles”, submitted to IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems.

Project 2 

Control of heavy-duty vehicles: environmental and fuel economy considerations

In this report we consider the effect of trucks equipped with adaptive cruise control systems operating in the same lanes as manually driven vehicles on traffic flow characteristics and the environment. The impact of different adaptive cruise control designs on traffic flow characteristics the environment will be evaluated. New ACC designs for trucks will be developed, by taking into account their effect on traffic flow characteristics and environment.
Reports and Publications:

Final Report