Potential field theory,as a theory that can also be applied to vehicle control,is an emerging risk quantification approach to accommodate the connected and self-driving vehicle environment.Vehicles have different risk...Potential field theory,as a theory that can also be applied to vehicle control,is an emerging risk quantification approach to accommodate the connected and self-driving vehicle environment.Vehicles have different risk impact effects on other road participants in each direction under the influence of road rules.This variability exhibited by vehicles in each direction is not considered in the previous potential field model.Therefore,this paper proposed a potential field model that takes the anisotropy of vehicle impact into account:(1)introducing equivalent distances to separate the potential field area in the different directions before and after the vehicle;(2)introducing co-virtual forces to characterize the effect of the side-by-side travel phenomenon on vehicle car-following travel;(3)introducing target forces and lane resistance,which regress the control of desired speed to control the acceptable risk of drivers.The Next Generation Simulation(NGSIM)dataset is used in this study to create the model's initial parameter values based on the artificial swarm algorithm.The simulation findings indicate that when the vehicle is given the capacity to perceive the surrounding traffic environment,the suggested the anisotropic safety potential field model(ASPFM)performs better in terms of driving safety.展开更多
As a form of a future traffic system,a connected and automated vehicle(CAV)platoon is a typical nonlinear physical system.CAVs can communicate with each other and exchange information.However,communication failures ca...As a form of a future traffic system,a connected and automated vehicle(CAV)platoon is a typical nonlinear physical system.CAVs can communicate with each other and exchange information.However,communication failures can change the platoon system status.To characterize this change,a dynamic topology-based car-following model and its generalized form are proposed in this work.Then,a stability analysis method is explored.Finally,taking the dynamic cooperative intelligent driver model(DC-IDM)for example,a series of numerical simulations is conducted to analyze the platoon stability in different communication topology scenarios.The results show that the communication failures reduce the stability,but information from vehicles that are farther ahead and the use of a larger desired time headway can improve stability.Moreover,the critical ratio of communication failures required to ensure stability for different driving parameters is studied in this work.展开更多
The highway capacity manual(HCM)provides a formula to calculate the heavy vehicle adjustment factor(fHV)as a function of passenger car equivalent factors for the heavy vehicle(ET).However,a significant drawback is tha...The highway capacity manual(HCM)provides a formula to calculate the heavy vehicle adjustment factor(fHV)as a function of passenger car equivalent factors for the heavy vehicle(ET).However,a significant drawback is that the methodology was established solely based on human-driven passenger cars(HDPC)and human-driven heavy vehicles(HDHV).Due to automated passenger cars(APCs),a new adjustment factor(fAV)might be expected.This study simulated traffic flows at different percentages of HDHVs and APCs to investigate the impacts of HDHVs and APCs on freeway capacity by analyzing their influence on fHV and fAV values.The simulation determined observed adjustment factors at different percentages of HDHVs and APCs(fobserved).The HCM formula was used to calculate(fHCM).Modifications to the HCM formula are proposed,and vehicle adjustment factors due to HDHVs and APCs were calculated(fproposed).Results showed that,in the presence of APCs,while fobserved and fHCM were statistically significantly different,fobserved and fproposed were statistically equal.Hence,this study recommends using the proposed formula when determining vehicle adjustment factors(fproposed)due to HDHVs and APCs in the traffic stream.展开更多
Communication is important for providing intelligent services in connected vehicles.Vehicles must be able to communicate with different places and exchange information while driving.For service operation,connected veh...Communication is important for providing intelligent services in connected vehicles.Vehicles must be able to communicate with different places and exchange information while driving.For service operation,connected vehicles frequently attempt to download large amounts of data.They can request data downloading to a road side unit(RSU),which provides infrastructure for connected vehicles.The RSU is a data bottleneck in a transportation system because data traffic is concentrated on the RSU.Therefore,it is not appropriate for a connected vehicle to always attempt a high speed download from the RSU.If the mobile network between a connected vehicle and an RSU has poor connection quality,the efficiency and speed of the data download from the RSU is decreased.This problem affects the quality of the user experience.Therefore,it is important for a connected vehicle to connect to an RSU with consideration of the network conditions in order to try to maximize download speed.The proposed method maximizes download speed from an RSU using a machine learning algorithm.To collect and learn from network data,fog computing is used.A fog server is integrated with the RSU to perform computing.If the algorithm recognizes that conditions are not good for mass data download,it will not attempt to download at high speed.Thus,the proposed method can improve the efficiency of high speed downloads.This conclusion was validated using extensive computer simulations.展开更多
为改善常规驾驶车辆交通流追尾碰撞交通安全状况,提出智能网联车辆(Connected and Automated Vehicles,CAV)与常规车辆构成的混合交通流车队稳定性优化控制方法。基于全速度差模型,应用集成速度与加速度的多前车反馈构建CAV跟驰模型,考...为改善常规驾驶车辆交通流追尾碰撞交通安全状况,提出智能网联车辆(Connected and Automated Vehicles,CAV)与常规车辆构成的混合交通流车队稳定性优化控制方法。基于全速度差模型,应用集成速度与加速度的多前车反馈构建CAV跟驰模型,考虑CAV混合交通流车辆空间分布的随机性,将各类型局部车队稳定性作为优化目标,以局部车队头车速度扰动为系统输入,以尾车速度扰动为系统输出,应用经典控制理论领域的传递函数法推导局部车队稳定性约束条件;分析关于平衡态速度与CAV反馈系数的车队稳定域,以各类型局部车队能够在任意平衡态速度下均稳定为控制目标,对CAV反馈系数输出进行优化控制;设计高速公路上匝道交通瓶颈数值仿真试验,在不同CAV比例等多种条件下,分析CAV混合交通流优化控制对交通流车辆追尾碰撞风险的影响。研究结果表明:CAV混合交通流优化控制可降低车辆追尾碰撞风险,在碰撞时间阈值小于2s时,100%比例的CAV交通流可将交通流的车辆追尾碰撞风险降低85.81%以上;在碰撞时间阈值大于2s时,追尾碰撞风险可降低48.22%~78.80%。所提优化控制方法可有效降低CAV车队优化控制的复杂性,为大规模CAV背景下的混合交通流优化控制以及车辆追尾碰撞交通安全提升策略提供直接理论参考。展开更多
基金sponsored by the National Key R&D Program of China(Grant No.2018YFB160220600)MOE(Ministry of Education in China)Project of Humanities,National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.52202408)Social Sciences23(Project No.20YJAZH083).
文摘Potential field theory,as a theory that can also be applied to vehicle control,is an emerging risk quantification approach to accommodate the connected and self-driving vehicle environment.Vehicles have different risk impact effects on other road participants in each direction under the influence of road rules.This variability exhibited by vehicles in each direction is not considered in the previous potential field model.Therefore,this paper proposed a potential field model that takes the anisotropy of vehicle impact into account:(1)introducing equivalent distances to separate the potential field area in the different directions before and after the vehicle;(2)introducing co-virtual forces to characterize the effect of the side-by-side travel phenomenon on vehicle car-following travel;(3)introducing target forces and lane resistance,which regress the control of desired speed to control the acceptable risk of drivers.The Next Generation Simulation(NGSIM)dataset is used in this study to create the model's initial parameter values based on the artificial swarm algorithm.The simulation findings indicate that when the vehicle is given the capacity to perceive the surrounding traffic environment,the suggested the anisotropic safety potential field model(ASPFM)performs better in terms of driving safety.
基金Project supported by the National Key Research and Development Project of China(Grant No.2018YFE0204300)the Beijing Municipal Science&Technology Commission(Grant No.Z211100004221008)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.U1964206).
文摘As a form of a future traffic system,a connected and automated vehicle(CAV)platoon is a typical nonlinear physical system.CAVs can communicate with each other and exchange information.However,communication failures can change the platoon system status.To characterize this change,a dynamic topology-based car-following model and its generalized form are proposed in this work.Then,a stability analysis method is explored.Finally,taking the dynamic cooperative intelligent driver model(DC-IDM)for example,a series of numerical simulations is conducted to analyze the platoon stability in different communication topology scenarios.The results show that the communication failures reduce the stability,but information from vehicles that are farther ahead and the use of a larger desired time headway can improve stability.Moreover,the critical ratio of communication failures required to ensure stability for different driving parameters is studied in this work.
文摘The highway capacity manual(HCM)provides a formula to calculate the heavy vehicle adjustment factor(fHV)as a function of passenger car equivalent factors for the heavy vehicle(ET).However,a significant drawback is that the methodology was established solely based on human-driven passenger cars(HDPC)and human-driven heavy vehicles(HDHV).Due to automated passenger cars(APCs),a new adjustment factor(fAV)might be expected.This study simulated traffic flows at different percentages of HDHVs and APCs to investigate the impacts of HDHVs and APCs on freeway capacity by analyzing their influence on fHV and fAV values.The simulation determined observed adjustment factors at different percentages of HDHVs and APCs(fobserved).The HCM formula was used to calculate(fHCM).Modifications to the HCM formula are proposed,and vehicle adjustment factors due to HDHVs and APCs were calculated(fproposed).Results showed that,in the presence of APCs,while fobserved and fHCM were statistically significantly different,fobserved and fproposed were statistically equal.Hence,this study recommends using the proposed formula when determining vehicle adjustment factors(fproposed)due to HDHVs and APCs in the traffic stream.
文摘Communication is important for providing intelligent services in connected vehicles.Vehicles must be able to communicate with different places and exchange information while driving.For service operation,connected vehicles frequently attempt to download large amounts of data.They can request data downloading to a road side unit(RSU),which provides infrastructure for connected vehicles.The RSU is a data bottleneck in a transportation system because data traffic is concentrated on the RSU.Therefore,it is not appropriate for a connected vehicle to always attempt a high speed download from the RSU.If the mobile network between a connected vehicle and an RSU has poor connection quality,the efficiency and speed of the data download from the RSU is decreased.This problem affects the quality of the user experience.Therefore,it is important for a connected vehicle to connect to an RSU with consideration of the network conditions in order to try to maximize download speed.The proposed method maximizes download speed from an RSU using a machine learning algorithm.To collect and learn from network data,fog computing is used.A fog server is integrated with the RSU to perform computing.If the algorithm recognizes that conditions are not good for mass data download,it will not attempt to download at high speed.Thus,the proposed method can improve the efficiency of high speed downloads.This conclusion was validated using extensive computer simulations.
文摘为改善常规驾驶车辆交通流追尾碰撞交通安全状况,提出智能网联车辆(Connected and Automated Vehicles,CAV)与常规车辆构成的混合交通流车队稳定性优化控制方法。基于全速度差模型,应用集成速度与加速度的多前车反馈构建CAV跟驰模型,考虑CAV混合交通流车辆空间分布的随机性,将各类型局部车队稳定性作为优化目标,以局部车队头车速度扰动为系统输入,以尾车速度扰动为系统输出,应用经典控制理论领域的传递函数法推导局部车队稳定性约束条件;分析关于平衡态速度与CAV反馈系数的车队稳定域,以各类型局部车队能够在任意平衡态速度下均稳定为控制目标,对CAV反馈系数输出进行优化控制;设计高速公路上匝道交通瓶颈数值仿真试验,在不同CAV比例等多种条件下,分析CAV混合交通流优化控制对交通流车辆追尾碰撞风险的影响。研究结果表明:CAV混合交通流优化控制可降低车辆追尾碰撞风险,在碰撞时间阈值小于2s时,100%比例的CAV交通流可将交通流的车辆追尾碰撞风险降低85.81%以上;在碰撞时间阈值大于2s时,追尾碰撞风险可降低48.22%~78.80%。所提优化控制方法可有效降低CAV车队优化控制的复杂性,为大规模CAV背景下的混合交通流优化控制以及车辆追尾碰撞交通安全提升策略提供直接理论参考。
