Pub Date : 2023-12-19DOI: 10.1109/OJITS.2023.3344216
Zimin He;Huaxin Pei;Yuqing Guo;Danya Yao;Li Li
Cooperative driving is crucial for improving traffic efficiency and safety for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), especially in traffic bottlenecks. However, most of the state-of-the-art cooperative driving strategies neglect the issue of fairness. Fairness is essential to properly allocate road resources and improve the travel experience. In this paper, we focus on the fairness concerns in the on-ramp cooperative driving problem. First, we note that enhancing traffic efficiency usually leads to unfairness, but we propose solutions to balance both aspects. Using the fundamental relation in traffic flow theory, we illustrate the existence of the trade-off at congested on-ramps. We then make some modifications to the cooperative driving strategies to incorporate fairness considerations. Simulation results show that the modified strategies achieve trade-offs in agreement with the theoretical one, laying the foundation for implementing the trade-off in real-world scenarios. These findings are enlightening for the increasing research on fairness issues in cooperative driving, and contribute to the optimization of traffic management strategies.
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Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1109/OJITS.2023.3341631
Lisa Kessler;Klaus Bogenberger
This paper investigates the detection rate of various freeway congestion patterns and compares them across different traffic sensor technologies. Congestion events can be categorized into multiple types, ranging from short traffic disruptions (referred to as Jam Wave) to Stop and Go patterns and severe congestion scenarios like Wide Jam. We analyze multiple traffic data sets, including speed data from loop detectors, travel time measurements from Bluetooth sensors, and floating car data (FCD) collected from probe vehicles. Each combination of congestion pattern and detection technology is thoroughly examined and evaluated in terms of its capability and suitability for identifying specific traffic congestion patterns. For our experimental site, we selected the freeway A9 in Germany, which spans a length of $mathrm {157~km}$