scholarly journals Stop-and-go suppression in two-class congested traffic

Automatica ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 125 ◽  
pp. 109381
Author(s):  
Mark Burkhardt ◽  
Huan Yu ◽  
Miroslav Krstic
Author(s):  
Neeraj Saxena ◽  
Ruiyang Wang ◽  
Vinayak V. Dixit ◽  
S. Travis Waller

Driving in congested traffic is a nuisance that not only results in longer travel times, but also triggers frustration and impatience among drivers. A few studies have modeled the effects of congested traffic in the resulting route choice behavior of car drivers. The studies used frequentist models such as discrete choice models to analyze large samples. However, these studies did not compare the inferences obtained from the frequentist and Bayesian approaches, particularly for datasets which are not sufficiently large. It has been shown by researchers that Bayesian models perform well, especially when the sample size is small. Thus, this paper develops and compares a multinomial logit (frequentist) and a Naïve Bayes (Bayesian) model on a mid-sized dataset of size around 100 participants which was obtained from a driving simulator experiment to understand driver’s route choice under stop-and-go traffic. The results show that the prediction power of the Naïve Bayes model is much higher than the multinomial logit model (MNL). The Naïve Bayes model is also found to perform better than machine learning algorithms like the decision tree model. The findings from this study will be useful to researchers and practitioners as they should test both the approaches and select the appropriate model, particularly in the case of seemingly large datasets.


2002 ◽  
Vol 65 (6) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elad Tomer ◽  
Leonid Safonov ◽  
Nilly Madar ◽  
Shlomo Havlin

2018 ◽  
Vol 32 (29) ◽  
pp. 1850325 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tao Wang ◽  
Jing Zhang ◽  
Shubin Li ◽  
Haoming Du ◽  
Ge Gao

This paper investigates the features of congested traffic flow near the combination of off-ramp and on-ramp. Firstly, the stochastic off-ramp and on-ramp are designed. Then, a two-lane lattice hydrodynamic traffic flow model coupled with a combination bottleneck is proposed to reproduce the empirical phenomena. In the simulation, the asymmetric-lane change rules were adopted, and many congested traffic flow patterns were observed near the combination bottlenecks, such as homogeneous synchronized traffic (HST), moving localized cluster (MLC), triggered stop-and-go traffic (TSG), oscillating congested traffic (OCT), pinned localized cluster (PLC), and homogeneous congested traffic (HCT). The obtained simulation results suggest that the proposed model is good and can produce the observed congestion spatiotemporal traffic patterns well.


Author(s):  
Jin-Liang Cao ◽  
Zhong-Ke Shi

In this paper, a novel lattice model on a single-lane gradient road is proposed with the consideration of relative current. The stability condition is obtained by using linear stability theory. It is shown that the stability of traffic flow on the gradient road varies with the slope and the sensitivity of response to the relative current: when the slope is constant, the stable region increases with the increasing of the sensitivity of response to the relative current; when the sensitivity of response to the relative current is constant, the stable region increases with the increasing of the slope in uphill and decreases with the increasing of the slope in downhill. A series of numerical simulations show a good agreement with the analytical result and show that the sensitivity of response to the relative current is better than the slope in stabilizing traffic flow and suppressing traffic congestion. By using nonlinear analysis, the Burgers, Korteweg–de Vries (KdV), and modified Korteweg–de Vries (mKdV) equations are derived to describe the triangular shock waves, soliton waves, and kink–antikink waves in the stable, metastable, and unstable region, respectively, which can explain the phase transitions from free traffic to stop-and-go traffic, and finally to congested traffic. One conclusion is drawn that the traffic congestion on the gradient road can be suppressed efficiently by introducing the relative velocity.


Sensors ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 21 (2) ◽  
pp. 432
Author(s):  
Guenther Retscher ◽  
Alexander Leb

A guidance and information service for a University library based on Wi-Fi signals using fingerprinting as chosen localization method is under development at TU Wien. After a thorough survey of suitable location technologies for the application it was decided to employ mainly Wi-Fi for localization. For that purpose, the availability, performance, and usability of Wi-Fi in selected areas of the library are analyzed in a first step. These tasks include the measurement of Wi-Fi received signal strengths (RSS) of the visible access points (APs) in different areas. The measurements were carried out in different modes, such as static, kinematic and in stop-and-go mode, with six different smartphones. A dependence on the positioning and tracking modes is seen in the tests. Kinematic measurements pose much greater challenges and depend significantly on the duration of a single Wi-Fi scan. For the smartphones, the scan durations differed in the range of 2.4 to 4.1 s resulting in different accuracies for kinematic positioning, as fewer measurements along the trajectories are available for a device with longer scan duration. The investigations indicated also that the achievable localization performance is only on the few meter level due to the small number of APs of the University own Wi-Fi network deployed in the library. A promising solution for performance improvement is the foreseen usage of low-cost Raspberry Pi units serving as Wi-Fi transmitter and receiver.


2019 ◽  
Vol 68 (3) ◽  
pp. 252-260
Author(s):  
Almut Balleer ◽  
Britta Gehrke ◽  
Brigitte Hochmuth ◽  
Christian Merkl

Abstract This article argues that short-time work stabilized employment in Germany substantially during the Great Recession in 2008/09. The labor market instrument acted in timely manner, as it was used in a rule-based fashion. In addition, discretionary extensions were effective due to their interaction with the business cycle. To ensure that short-time work will be effective in the future, this article proposes an automatic facilitation of the access to short-time work in severe recessions. This reduces the likelihood of a too extensive use at the wrong point in time as well as structural instead of cyclical interventions.


2007 ◽  
Vol 23 (9-11) ◽  
pp. 669-677 ◽  
Author(s):  
Pascal Volino ◽  
Nadia Magnenat-Thalmann
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Author(s):  
K Yi ◽  
N Ryu ◽  
H J Yoon ◽  
K Huh ◽  
D Cho ◽  
...  

Implementation and vehicle tests of a vehicle longitudinal control algorithm for stop-and-go cruise control have been performed. The vehicle longitudinal control scheme consists of a set-speed control algorithm, a speed control algorithm, and a distance control algorithm. A desired acceleration for the vehicle for the control of vehicle-to-vehicle relative speed and clearance has been designed using linear quadratic optimal control theory. Performance of the control algorithm has been investigated via vehicle tests. Vehicle tests have been conducted using two test vehicles. A 2000 cm3 passenger car equipped with a radar distance sensor, throttle/brake actuators and a controller has been used as a subject vehicle in the vehicle tests. A millimetre wave radar sensor has been used for distance measurement. A step motor and an electronic vacuum booster have been used for throttle/brake actuators. It has been shown that the implemented vehicle longitudinal control system can provide satisfactory performance in vehicle set-speed control and vehicle clearance control at lower speeds.


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