5 papers
Improving Urban Traffic Throughput with Vehicle Platooning: Theory and Experiments
Stanley W. Smith, Yeojun Kim, Jacopo Guanetti +7
In this paper we present a model-predictive control (MPC) based approach for vehicle platooning in an urban traffic setting. Our primary goal is to demonstrate that vehicle platoon…
Safety Challenges for Autonomous Vehicles in the Absence of Connectivity
Akhil Shetty, Mengqiao Yu, Alex Kurzhanskiy +3
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are promoted as a technology that will create a future with effortless driving and virtually no traffic accidents. AV companies claim that, when fully dev…
Macroscopic Modeling, Calibration, and Simulation of Managed Lane-Freeway Networks, Part II: Network-scale Calibration and Case Studies
Matthew A. Wright, Roberto Horowitz, Alex A. Kurzhanskiy
In Part I of this paper series, several macroscopic traffic model elements for mathematically describing freeway networks equipped with managed lane facilities were proposed. These…
Balancing Safety and Traffic Throughput in Cooperative Vehicle Platooning
Stanley W. Smith, Yeojun Kim, Jacopo Guanetti +3
In this paper we propose a distributed model predictive control architecture to coordinate the longitudinal motion of a vehicle platoon at a signalized intersection. Our control ap…
Making intersections safer with I2V communication
Offer Grembek, Alex Kurzhanskiy, Aditya Medury +2
Intersections are hazardous places. Threats arise from interactions among pedestrians, bicycles and vehicles, more complicated vehicle trajectories in the absence of lane markings,…