A hierarchical approach for splitting truck platoons near network discontinuities

Truck platooning has attracted substantial attention due to its pronounced benefits in saving energy and promising business model in freight transportation. However, one prominent challenge for the successful implementation of truck platooning is the safe and efficient interaction with surrounding traffic, especially at network...

Business Strategy Design for the Cooperative Traffic Business

Late 2013 the Dutch Ministry of Infrastructure and Environment created the project Spookfiles A58. In this project the cooperative traffic theory is used to solve traffic wave congestion. In the cooperative theory, vehicles are able to communicate with their peers and roadside traffic systems quickly. Vehicles constantly broadcast data about its...

Modelling Supported Driving as an Optimal Control Cycle: Framework and Model Characteristics

Driver assistance systems support drivers in operating vehicles in a safe, comfortable and efficient way, and thus may induce changes in traffic flow characteristics. This paper puts forward a receding horizon control framework to model driver assistance and cooperative systems. The accelerations of automated vehicles are controlled to optimise...