Abstract
The Variable Speed Limit (VSL) application provides travelers with dynamic speed advisory information to keep optimal traffic flow conditions for freeways and corridors under both recurrent and non-recurrent congestion incurred by incidents and/or work-zones. By coupling VSL and Connected Vehicle (CV) environment enabling two-way wireless communications for vehicle-To-vehicle and vehicle-To-infrastructure, it is expected to achieve improved performance of VSL as a viable traffic congestion mitigation tool. This digest paper presents the impact of connected vehicle on the effectiveness of VSL on a freeway bottleneck section by using a microscopic simulation model. Simulation experimental results show that CV-powered VSL improves the traffic congestion conditions up to 7-12% depending on CV market penetration rates.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages | 966-967 |
| Number of pages | 2 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 2013 |
| Event | 2013 2nd IEEE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, ICCVE 2013 - Las Vegas, NV, United States Duration: Dec 2 2013 → Dec 6 2013 |
Other
| Other | 2013 2nd IEEE International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo, ICCVE 2013 |
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| Country/Territory | United States |
| City | Las Vegas, NV |
| Period | 12/2/13 → 12/6/13 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Automotive Engineering
Keywords
- Active Traffic Management
- Connected Vehicles