Real-time traffic management to maximize throughput of automated vehicles.

PDFTech ReportMPC 15-283Highway traffic controlReal time informationLane changingTraffic flowAlgorithmsSimulationIntelligent vehiclesIntelligent transportation systemsMountain Plains ConsortiumChantem, TamDesiraju, DivyaUtah Transportation CenterUnited States. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Innovative Technology AdministrationUS Transportation CollectionIn intelligent transportation systems, most of the research work has focused on lane change assistantsystems. No existing work considers minimizing the disruption of traffic flow by maximizing the numberof lane changes while eliminating the collisions. In this thesis, we develop qualitative and quantitativeapproaches for minimizing the disruption of traffic flow for three lane scenarios and show that we canextend our approach to an arbitrary number of lanes. The proposed algorithm is able to achieve themaximum number of lane changes. Simulation results show that our approach provides much betterperformance when compared with different lane change algorithms without incurring large overhead, andis hence suitable for online use