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Cooperative Lane Changing Strategies to Improve Traffic Operation and Safety Nearby Freeway Off-Ramps in a Connected and Automated Vehicles Environment

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The study proposes a cooperative lane changing strategy to improve traffic operation and safety at a diverging area nearby a highway off-ramp in an environment with connected and automated vehicles… Click to show full abstract

The study proposes a cooperative lane changing strategy to improve traffic operation and safety at a diverging area nearby a highway off-ramp in an environment with connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). The cooperative strategy was implemented by the coordination of behaviors between the diverging vehicle and its cooperative vehicle on the target lane. The Minimizing Overall Braking Induced by Lane Changes Model (MOBIL) and Intelligent Driver Model (IDM) were modified to develop a simulation platform for a CAV environment. The optimal cooperative lane changing zones were firstly calculated by a heuristic algorithm, and then were applied in the simulation platform to implement the cooperative strategy. Various metrics were considered to evaluate the proposed strategy, including: total travel time, surrogate safety measures and traffic waves in the system. The experimental results showed that the length of the optimal cooperative zones obtained in our strategy were smaller than the fixed zone required in modified MOBIL strategy. Moreover, the results indicated that the cooperative strategy with the optimal zones, could improve traffic operation, traffic safety and traffic oscillation as compared to the modified MOBIL strategy with the fixed zone. The cooperative strategy can be potentially implemented nearby highway off-ramps by vehicle-based control, with the applications of the aforementioned cooperative zones.

Keywords: improve traffic; strategy; cooperative lane; traffic; lane changing; safety

Journal Title: IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
Year Published: 2020

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