{"title":"Infrastructure sensor-based cooperative perception for early stage connected and automated vehicle deployment","authors":"Chenxi Chen , Qing Tang , Xianbiao Hu , Zhitong Huang","doi":"10.1080/15472450.2023.2257596","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15472450.2023.2257596","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Infrastructure-based sensors provide a potentially promising solution to support the wide adoption of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) technologies at an early stage. For connected vehicles with lower level of automation that do not have perception sensors, infrastructure sensors will significantly boost its capability to understand the driving context. Even if a full suite of sensors is available on a vehicle with higher level of automation, infrastructure sensors can support overcome the issues of occlusion and limited sensor range. To this end, a cooperative perception modeling framework is proposed in this manuscript. In particular, the modeling focus is placed on a key technical challenge, time delay in the cooperative perception process, which is of vital importance to the synchronization, perception, and localization modules. A constant turn-rate velocity (CTRV) model is firstly developed to estimate the future motion states of a vehicle. A delay compensation and fusion module is presented next, to compensate for the time delay due to the computing time and communication latency. Last but not the least, as the behavior of moving objects (i.e., vehicles, cyclists, and pedestrians) is nonlinear in both position and speed aspects, an unscented Kalman filter (UKF) algorithm is developed to improve object tracking accuracy considering communication time delay between the ego vehicle and infrastructure-based LiDAR sensors. Simulation experiments are performed to test the feasibility and evaluate the performance of the proposed algorithm, which shows satisfactory results.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"28 6","pages":"Pages 956-970"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135059629","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eliminating the impacts of traffic volume variation on before and after studies: a causal inference approach","authors":"Xiaobo Ma , Abolfazl Karimpour , Yao-Jan Wu","doi":"10.1080/15472450.2023.2245327","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15472450.2023.2245327","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>A before and after study framework measures the outcomes in a group of participants before introducing an intervention, and then again afterward. In this study, a before and after study framework is adopted to evaluate the effectiveness of transportation policies and emerging technologies. Generally, the outcome of every before and after study will help decision-makers to monitor and understand the effects of interventions and to make sound decisions. However, many factors such as seasonal factors, holidays, and lane closures might interfere with the evaluation process by inducing variation in traffic volume during the before and after periods. In practice, limited effort has been made to eliminate the effects of these factors. In this study, an extreme gradient boosting (XGBoost)-based propensity score matching (PSM) method is proposed to reduce the biases caused by traffic volume variation during the before and after periods. In order to evaluate the effectiveness of the proposed method, a corridor in the City of Chandler, Arizona where an advanced traffic signal control system has been recently implemented was selected. The results indicated that the proposed method can effectively eliminate the variation in traffic volume caused by the COVID-19 during the evaluation process. In addition, the results of the t-test and Kolmogorov-Smirnov (KS) test demonstrated that the proposed method outperforms other state-of-the-art PSM methods. The application of the proposed method is also transferrable to other before and after evaluation studies and can significantly assist transportation engineers to eliminate the impacts of traffic volume variation on the evaluation process.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"28 6","pages":"Pages 921-935"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"84744954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lei Wei , Peng Chen , Yu Mei , Jian Sun , Yunpeng Wang
{"title":"A hierarchical control framework for alleviating network traffic bottleneck congestion using vehicle trajectory data","authors":"Lei Wei , Peng Chen , Yu Mei , Jian Sun , Yunpeng Wang","doi":"10.1080/15472450.2023.2270428","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15472450.2023.2270428","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Traffic bottlenecks significantly influence the operation efficiency of large-scale road networks. Developing advanced control strategies for bottleneck optimization is a cost-efficient and critical way to deal with network congestion. However, the state-of-the-art studies on network congestion control focus on the topology level, which may fail to relieve congestion by addressing the root cause of bottleneck. This study proposed a hierarchical control framework for alleviating network traffic bottleneck congestion using vehicle trajectory data. First, the bottleneck-related sub-network (BRS) was identified by tracing vehicle trajectories upstream and downstream of the bottleneck based on the traffic flow propagation. Then, a hierarchical control framework was proposed for BRS optimization. Specifically, in the outer layer, i.e., the gating control layer, the multigated intersections in BRS were controlled <em>via</em> a multimemory deep Q-network approach to optimize the network traffic distribution. In the inner layer, i.e., the coordinated control layer, local intersection controllers were coordinated by adjusting the dynamic input and output streams of the bottleneck under the guidance of the outer layer controller, which helps balance the traffic pressure within BRS and avoids congestion transferring in the network. Both simulation and field experiments were conducted to verify the performance of the proposed hierarchical framework. Results reveal that the framework can effectively relieve network traffic congestion with decreased queue length and travel time.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"28 6","pages":"Pages 988-1010"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"136104005","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Eco-friendly platooning operation algorithm of the electric vehicles","authors":"Joonwon Jang , Sung Il Kwag , Young Dae Ko","doi":"10.1080/15472450.2023.2209911","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15472450.2023.2209911","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>Platooning is one of the promising technologies that maximizes the power efficiency of electric vehicles by decreasing the distances between the vehicles. Along with the development of autonomous driving technology, platooning is expected to be commercialized. Recent studies on the operation of platooning focused on power-efficient maintenance of platooning. However, power-efficient operation strategy is also needed for practical applications. Therefore, this study deals with platooning operations that can maximize the power efficiency of electric vehicles in various operational situations. In order to derive the operation method, a mathematical model structured with an objective function that minimizes power consumption is developed. To derive the solution of the mathematical model, a hybrid genetic algorithm is applied. The numerical experiments on four different operational situations are performed to verify the validity of the model and the solution procedure. The four situations consider overall situation that can happen during the platooning stage. The stages are formation, disassembly, join and breakaway of vehicles of platoon. Those four situations are decided upon since they can represent the general situation that can happen during platooning. As a result, the power-efficient driving patterns of electric vehicles are identified. After the development of electric and systematic technology, operational technology for platooning will collaborate for the further improvement. Therefore, throughout consideration of the formation of platooning, technology will expand the sustainability of technological development.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"28 6","pages":"Pages 775-792"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91148916","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Michelangelo-Santo Gulino , Krzysztof Damaziak , Anita Fiorentino , Dario Vangi
{"title":"Handling inevitable collision states by Advanced Driver Assistance Systems functions: software-in-the-loop performance assessment of an injury risk-based logic in a “lane departure” scenario","authors":"Michelangelo-Santo Gulino , Krzysztof Damaziak , Anita Fiorentino , Dario Vangi","doi":"10.1080/15472450.2023.2277713","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15472450.2023.2277713","url":null,"abstract":"<div><div>The downward trend in the number of fatalities and serious injuries related to road accidents depends on the implementation of increasingly performing Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) in the circulating fleet. The greatest benefit of the adoption of ADASs like Autonomous Emergency Braking (AEB) consists in limiting the frequency of impacts. However, in Inevitable Collision States (ICSs), the decrease in impact closing speed guaranteed by the AEB may not reduce the Injury Risk (IR) for the occupants: IR is a function of the vehicle’s velocity change in the collision (<span><math><mrow><mo>Δ</mo><mi>V</mi></mrow></math></span>) – a combination of impact closing speed and impact eccentricity. The work virtually analyses, in lane departure ICS scenarios, the performance of an adaptive steering and braking intervention logic based on instantaneous IR minimization. The adaptive logic reduces IR compared to the absence of intervention (down to 80 times lower) and to the AEB (down to 40 times lower) by leading the ego vehicle toward eccentric impact configurations. It is highlighted that full activation of the steer-by-wire system in 0.3 s allows the adaptive logic to also reduce the frequency of impacts; it is further evidenced that employing a function capable of modulating the braking level to minimize IR entails disadvantages from the IR perspective compared to the AEB: efficient intervention strategies on the steering are the only alternative for increasing the safety provided by high-performance ADASs. Finally, compared to previous literature, the study highlights high efficiencies of the adaptive logic in a wide range of ICS scenarios.</div></div>","PeriodicalId":54792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"28 6","pages":"Pages 1011-1031"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135391417","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Comparing the performance of metaheuristics on the Transit Network Frequency Setting Problem","authors":"İlyas Cihan Aksoy, Mehmet Metin Mutlu","doi":"10.1080/15472450.2024.2392722","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15472450.2024.2392722","url":null,"abstract":"The Transit Network Frequency Setting Problem (TNFSP), an NP-Hard combinatorial optimization problem, has been frequently addressed in previous investigations, most of which employ metaheuristics. ...","PeriodicalId":54792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142247329","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kong Li, Zhe Dai, Chen Zuo, Xuan Wang, Hua Cui, Huansheng Song, Mengying Cui
{"title":"Scene adaptation in adverse conditions: a multi-sensor fusion framework for roadside traffic perception","authors":"Kong Li, Zhe Dai, Chen Zuo, Xuan Wang, Hua Cui, Huansheng Song, Mengying Cui","doi":"10.1080/15472450.2024.2390844","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15472450.2024.2390844","url":null,"abstract":"Robust roadside traffic perception requires integrating the strengths of multi-source sensors under various adverse conditions, which is challenging but indispensable for formulating effective traf...","PeriodicalId":54792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"9 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-08-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142179723","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Afshin Jafari, Dhirendra Singh, Alan Both, Mahsa Abdollahyar, Lucy Gunn, Steve Pemberton, Billie Giles-Corti
{"title":"Activity-based and agent-based transport model of Melbourne: an open multi-modal transport simulation model for Greater Melbourne","authors":"Afshin Jafari, Dhirendra Singh, Alan Both, Mahsa Abdollahyar, Lucy Gunn, Steve Pemberton, Billie Giles-Corti","doi":"10.1080/15472450.2024.2372894","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1080/15472450.2024.2372894","url":null,"abstract":"Activity- and agent-based models for simulating transport systems have attracted significant attention in recent years. However, building these types of models at a city-wide level and including mo...","PeriodicalId":54792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":3.6,"publicationDate":"2024-07-11","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141613114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimizing the ground intra-city express delivery network: An integrated multiple centrality assessment, multi-criteria decision-making, and multi-objective integer programming model","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/15472450.2022.2157211","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15472450.2022.2157211","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Optimization of an intra-city express delivery network from three to two levels is of great interest to suppliers and customers for reducing costs and improving service efficiency. One feasible solution is to identify critical nodes in the three-level network and upgrade them as transshipment facilities in the two-level one. However, traditional optimization models seldom combine empirical business data, composite metrics, and objective evaluation rules. We proposed an approach integrating empirical data, multi-criteria decision-making methods based on the real-world application of the SF Express Chengdu branch. We also developed a mathematical optimization model using statistical and operations management techniques combined with logistics expertise for a location decision. First, the appropriateness of each service point as a candidate transshipment facility is evaluated from internal and external perspectives by applying multiple centrality assessment from complex network theory and fuzzy Technique for Order Preference by Similarity to an Ideal Solution, respectively. Second, 16 candidate transshipment facilities are selected by combining these two ways. Then, a multi-objective integer programming model is built to obtain the optimal number, locations of transshipment facilities, and the corresponding service points covered by each transshipment facility. Using this multi-methodologic approach, we show that the optimized two-level network is economically feasible and simply applicable, with the total cost and average delivery time reduced by 18.41% and 6 h, respectively. This article is of practical significance and provides an important reference for optimizing ground express service networks for other large cities.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"28 4","pages":"Pages 525-543"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85741363","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Proactive congestion management via data-driven methods and connected vehicle-based microsimulation","authors":"","doi":"10.1080/15472450.2022.2140047","DOIUrl":"10.1080/15472450.2022.2140047","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Traffic congestion is a phenomenon that has been extensively explored by researchers due to its impact on reliability and safety. This research is focused on proactively detecting and mitigating congestion on freeways by fuzing conventional traffic data obtained from radar and loop detectors with newer sources, such as Bluetooth and connected vehicles (CV). Data-driven and signal-processing techniques are explored to develop algorithms that use near- or real-time traffic measurements to predict the onset and intensity level of traffic congestion. The developed algorithm can be applied to both conventional and low penetration CV-based datasets to identify four types of congestion, that is, normal, recurring, other non-recurring, and incident. This research also demonstrates the advantage of using CV-based travel time estimates to calibrate microsimulation models over fixed point-based derivations of travel time from spot speeds. Finally, a set of mitigation strategies consisting of speed harmonization and dynamic rerouting are implemented in the calibrated simulation network to demonstrate their effectiveness in proactively reducing recurring and non-recurring congestion. The final derived algorithm is effective in proactively predicting the onset of congestion and its intensity level, with an overall mean prediction error of 30.2%. A limitation to the algorithm’s methodology is that it cannot disentangle the type of congestion when two or more are occurring simultaneously and only predicts/classifies the anticipated highest level. However, this does not impair the user’s ability to readily deploy appropriate mitigation strategies to alleviate the predicted intensity of congestion.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":54792,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems","volume":"28 4","pages":"Pages 459-475"},"PeriodicalIF":2.8,"publicationDate":"2024-07-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79341768","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"工程技术","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}