Smart intersection control algorithms for automated vehicles

Abstract

The pace at which autonomous vehicle technology is reaching consumers is accelerating. Furthermore, the future driverless cars are intended to be talkative with regard to exchanging information with other vehicles, infrastructure, or even cloud. More recent attention has focused on the provision of frameworks to take advantage of automated and connected vehicle technology. This study proposes a system design to allow safe and efficient traffic of both automated/connected and conventional vehicles approaching an isolated intersection. The benefit mainly comes from the ability of automated/connected vehicles to maintain shorter and more stable headways to the vehicle in ahead compared to conventional vehicles. Simulation experiments are conducted to gain insight into the influence of flow and automated vehicle ratio over the performance of intersection.