Game theoretic lane change strategy for cooperative vehicles under perfect information

Game theoretic lane change strategy for cooperative vehicles under perfect information

Ladino, Andres (COSYS)
Wang, M. (TU Delft Transport and Planning)

Li, Ruimin (editor)
He, Zhengbing (editor)

2021

Lane change maneuvers are main causes of traffic turbulence at highway bottlenecks. We propose a dynamic game framework to derive the system optimum strategy for a network of cooperative vehicles interacting at a merging bottleneck. Cooperative vehicles on the highway mainline seek for optimal strategies (i.e., whether and when to perform courtesy lane change to facilitate the merging vehicle) to minimize their cost, while taking into account potential future interactions at the merging section while minimizing the distance traveled on the acceleration lane. An optimal strategy is found by minimizing the joint cost of all interacting vehicles while respecting behavioral and physical constraints. Numerical examples show the feasibility of the approach in capturing the nature of conflict and cooperation during the merging process, and demonstrate the benefits of sharing information and cooperative control for connected and automated vehicles.

road traffic control
roads
road vehicles
game theory
road safety
road traffic
traffic engineering computing

http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:5f86a024-4935-4574-b162-0c1cb9cf0976

https://doi.org/10.1049/pbtr026e_ch7

Institution of Engineering and Technology

9781839530258

Traffic Information and Control

Institutional Repository

book chapter

© 2021 Andres Ladino, M. Wang