This document discusses motion planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles at intersections. It first introduces Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM), which uses vehicle-to-infrastructure communication and reservations to efficiently control intersection traffic without traffic signals. The document then discusses how the precision of vehicles' motion controllers relates to intersection efficiency. It proposes a planning-based motion controller that can reduce vehicle stopping and optimize arrival times/velocities to increase intersection throughput according to Little's law of queueing theory.
Sharing the Road: Autonomous Vehicles Meet Human DriversSergey Zhdanov
This document summarizes a research paper about developing a system to allow autonomous and human-driven vehicles to safely share the road, especially at intersections. The system uses a reservation-based approach where vehicles request space-time in the intersection from an intersection manager. To accommodate human drivers, the system incorporates traffic light signals that are controlled by the intersection manager. A new policy called FCFS-LIGHT is introduced that grants reservations to autonomous vehicles when lights are green but also simulates trajectories to ensure safety when lights are red. This hybrid approach aims to provide benefits over a pure reservation system or traditional traffic light system.
Autonomous Intersection Management for Semi-Autonomous VehiclesSergey Zhdanov
This document introduces Semi-Autonomous Intersection Management (SemiAIM), a new intersection control protocol that allows both fully autonomous vehicles and semi-autonomous vehicles with limited self-driving capabilities to safely and efficiently pass through intersections. SemiAIM builds upon the existing Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM) protocol by introducing the concept of constraint-based reservation requests, which allow semi-autonomous vehicles to reserve space-time in the intersection based on constraints about their driving profiles and relationships to other vehicles, rather than requiring precise trajectory control. The document describes types of semi-autonomous vehicles, an interaction model between human drivers and driver agents, the constraint-based reservation system, and simulation results demonstrating that SemiAIM can
With increasing vehicle size in the luxury segment and crunching parking space, traffic congestion is increasingly becoming an alarming concern in almost all major cities around the world. Burning about a million barrels of the world’s oil every day, and considering cities are turning urban without a well-planned, convenience-driven retreat from the cars, these problems will only worsen.
Smart Parking systems is one of the latest disruptive technologies that help address this problem by generating real time contextual information about the available parking spaces particular geographical area to accommodate vehicles low-cost sensors, mobility-enabled automated payment systems, real-time data collection, Smart Parking systems is designed to aid drivers to precisely find a spot.
What’s more, Smart Parking also minimizes emissions from vehicle in urban centers when deployed as a system by decreasing the dependency of people; unnecessarily circling the blocks trying to identify parking space. Apart from this green cause, by employing a host of technologies such as M2M telematics, Smart Parking helps resolve one of the biggest problems when driving around in urban areas – which is illegal parking and identifying free parking space.
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) can be defined as the application of advanced information and communications technology to surface transportation in order to achieve enhanced safety and mobility while reducing the environmental impact of transportation. The addition of wireless communications offers a powerful and transformative opportunity to establish transportation connectivity that further enables cooperative systems and dynamic data exchange using a broad range of advanced systems and technologies.
Traffic Congestion Prediction using Deep Reinforcement Learning in Vehicular ...IJCNCJournal
In recent years, a new wireless network called vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET), has become a popular research topic. VANET allows communication among vehicles and with roadside units by providing information to each other, such as vehicle velocity, location and direction. In general, when many vehicles likely to use the common route to proceed to the same destination, it can lead to a congested route that should be avoided. It may be better if vehicles are able to predict accurately the traffic congestion and then avoid it. Therefore, in this work, the deep reinforcement learning in VANET to enhance the ability to predict traffic congestion on the roads is proposed. Furthermore, different types of neural networks namely Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) are investigated and compared in this deep reinforcement learning model to discover the most effective one. Our proposed method is tested by simulation. The traffic scenarios are created using traffic simulator called Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) before integrating with deep reinforcement learning model. The simulation procedures, as well as the programming used, are described in detail. The performance of our proposed method is evaluated using two metrics; the average travelling time delay and average waiting time delay of vehicles. According to the simulation results, the average travelling time delay and average waiting time delay are gradually improved over the multiple runs, since our proposed method receives feedback from the environment. In addition, the results without and with three different deep learning algorithms, i.e., CNN, MLP and LSTM are compared. It is obvious that the deep reinforcement learning model works effectively when traffic density is neither too high nor too low. In addition, it can be concluded that the effective algorithms for traffic congestion prediction models in descending order are MLP, CNN, and LSTM, respectively.
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International Refereed Journal of Engineering and Science (IRJES)irjes
International Refereed Journal of Engineering and Science (IRJES) is a leading international journal for publication of new ideas, the state of the art research results and fundamental advances in all aspects of Engineering and Science. IRJES is a open access, peer reviewed international journal with a primary objective to provide the academic community and industry for the submission of half of original research and applications
This document provides information about a study conducted on the Mevad Toll Plaza located on the Mehsana-Ahmedabad Highway in Gujarat, India. The study involved collecting classified volume count data, service time data for different vehicle types, and conducting a user survey. The data was analyzed to determine peak traffic hours and the average service times. It was found that the average service time at the manual toll plaza was around 25 seconds per vehicle, much higher than the 4-5 seconds per vehicle achieved at electronic toll collection plazas. The results of the study can be used to identify opportunities to reduce congestion and delays at the toll plaza.
Sharing the Road: Autonomous Vehicles Meet Human DriversSergey Zhdanov
This document summarizes a research paper about developing a system to allow autonomous and human-driven vehicles to safely share the road, especially at intersections. The system uses a reservation-based approach where vehicles request space-time in the intersection from an intersection manager. To accommodate human drivers, the system incorporates traffic light signals that are controlled by the intersection manager. A new policy called FCFS-LIGHT is introduced that grants reservations to autonomous vehicles when lights are green but also simulates trajectories to ensure safety when lights are red. This hybrid approach aims to provide benefits over a pure reservation system or traditional traffic light system.
Autonomous Intersection Management for Semi-Autonomous VehiclesSergey Zhdanov
This document introduces Semi-Autonomous Intersection Management (SemiAIM), a new intersection control protocol that allows both fully autonomous vehicles and semi-autonomous vehicles with limited self-driving capabilities to safely and efficiently pass through intersections. SemiAIM builds upon the existing Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM) protocol by introducing the concept of constraint-based reservation requests, which allow semi-autonomous vehicles to reserve space-time in the intersection based on constraints about their driving profiles and relationships to other vehicles, rather than requiring precise trajectory control. The document describes types of semi-autonomous vehicles, an interaction model between human drivers and driver agents, the constraint-based reservation system, and simulation results demonstrating that SemiAIM can
With increasing vehicle size in the luxury segment and crunching parking space, traffic congestion is increasingly becoming an alarming concern in almost all major cities around the world. Burning about a million barrels of the world’s oil every day, and considering cities are turning urban without a well-planned, convenience-driven retreat from the cars, these problems will only worsen.
Smart Parking systems is one of the latest disruptive technologies that help address this problem by generating real time contextual information about the available parking spaces particular geographical area to accommodate vehicles low-cost sensors, mobility-enabled automated payment systems, real-time data collection, Smart Parking systems is designed to aid drivers to precisely find a spot.
What’s more, Smart Parking also minimizes emissions from vehicle in urban centers when deployed as a system by decreasing the dependency of people; unnecessarily circling the blocks trying to identify parking space. Apart from this green cause, by employing a host of technologies such as M2M telematics, Smart Parking helps resolve one of the biggest problems when driving around in urban areas – which is illegal parking and identifying free parking space.
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) can be defined as the application of advanced information and communications technology to surface transportation in order to achieve enhanced safety and mobility while reducing the environmental impact of transportation. The addition of wireless communications offers a powerful and transformative opportunity to establish transportation connectivity that further enables cooperative systems and dynamic data exchange using a broad range of advanced systems and technologies.
Traffic Congestion Prediction using Deep Reinforcement Learning in Vehicular ...IJCNCJournal
In recent years, a new wireless network called vehicular ad-hoc network (VANET), has become a popular research topic. VANET allows communication among vehicles and with roadside units by providing information to each other, such as vehicle velocity, location and direction. In general, when many vehicles likely to use the common route to proceed to the same destination, it can lead to a congested route that should be avoided. It may be better if vehicles are able to predict accurately the traffic congestion and then avoid it. Therefore, in this work, the deep reinforcement learning in VANET to enhance the ability to predict traffic congestion on the roads is proposed. Furthermore, different types of neural networks namely Convolutional Neural Network (CNN), Multilayer Perceptron (MLP) and Long Short-Term Memory (LSTM) are investigated and compared in this deep reinforcement learning model to discover the most effective one. Our proposed method is tested by simulation. The traffic scenarios are created using traffic simulator called Simulation of Urban Mobility (SUMO) before integrating with deep reinforcement learning model. The simulation procedures, as well as the programming used, are described in detail. The performance of our proposed method is evaluated using two metrics; the average travelling time delay and average waiting time delay of vehicles. According to the simulation results, the average travelling time delay and average waiting time delay are gradually improved over the multiple runs, since our proposed method receives feedback from the environment. In addition, the results without and with three different deep learning algorithms, i.e., CNN, MLP and LSTM are compared. It is obvious that the deep reinforcement learning model works effectively when traffic density is neither too high nor too low. In addition, it can be concluded that the effective algorithms for traffic congestion prediction models in descending order are MLP, CNN, and LSTM, respectively.
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International Refereed Journal of Engineering and Science (IRJES)irjes
International Refereed Journal of Engineering and Science (IRJES) is a leading international journal for publication of new ideas, the state of the art research results and fundamental advances in all aspects of Engineering and Science. IRJES is a open access, peer reviewed international journal with a primary objective to provide the academic community and industry for the submission of half of original research and applications
This document provides information about a study conducted on the Mevad Toll Plaza located on the Mehsana-Ahmedabad Highway in Gujarat, India. The study involved collecting classified volume count data, service time data for different vehicle types, and conducting a user survey. The data was analyzed to determine peak traffic hours and the average service times. It was found that the average service time at the manual toll plaza was around 25 seconds per vehicle, much higher than the 4-5 seconds per vehicle achieved at electronic toll collection plazas. The results of the study can be used to identify opportunities to reduce congestion and delays at the toll plaza.
The Study of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System at University Road Peshawar, Paki...IOSR Journals
The paper is part of an ongoing research project on traffic management strategies for Peshawar
Pakistan. A survey of all the existing public transport stops on University Road Peshawar conducted for
identification of bus lane. Peak hour demand was calculated in terms of actual Passengers per hour per
direction (Pphpd)along the entire corridor which acts a warrant test for the provision of a separate lane for
public transport vehicles in Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System. Saturation Levelsand Dwell Times (sec)at every
stop both for busses and for wagons usingfrequency, clearance time, amount of boarding and alighting
passengers and journey time of existing public transport system were analyzed.From data analysis,
theSaturation Levels and Dwell Times at every stop were found higher than the recommended values mainly
because of the obstruction due to private vehicles in front of public transport vehicles,a comparatively high
percentage of private vehicles with respect to public transport vehicles and the prolong stay of drivers atbus
stops. The Saturation Levels and Dwell Times (sec) for the proposed BRT system was re-analyzed. Finally,
result of the proposed BRT system was incorporated in S-Paramics software to develop a public transport
model.
Optimized Traffic Signal Control System at Traffic Intersections Using VanetIOSR Journals
Abstract: Traditional Automated traffic signal control systems normally schedule the vehicles at intersection in
a pre timed slot manner. This pre-timed controller approach fails to minimize the waiting time of vehicles at the
traffic intersection as it doesn’t consider the arrival time of vehicles. To overcome this problem an adaptive and
intelligent traffic control system is proposed in such a way that a traffic signal controller with wireless radio
installed at the intersection and it is considered as an infrastructure. All the vehicles are equipped with onboard
location, speed sensors and a wireless radio to communicate with the infrastructure thereby VANET is formed.
Once the vehicles enter into the boundary of traffic area, they broadcast their positional information as data
packet with their encapsulated ID in it. The controller at the intersection receives the transmitted packets from
all the legs of intersection and then stores it in a temporary log file. Now the controller runs Platooning
algorithm to group the vehicles approximately in equal size of platoons. The platoons are formed on the basis of
data disseminated by the vehicles. Then the controller runs Oldest Job First algorithm which treats platoons as
jobs. The algorithm schedules jobs in conflict free manner and ensures all the jobs utilize equal processing time
i.e the vehicles of each platoons cross the intersection at equal delays. The proposed approach is evaluated
under various traffic volumes and the performance is analyzed.
Keywords Conflict graphs, online job scheduling, traffic signal control, vehicular ad hoc network (VANET)
simulation, vehicle-actuated traffic signal control, Webster’s algorithm.
Lecture 04 Capacity for TWSC (Traffic Engineering هندسة المرور & Dr. Usama Sh...Hossam Shafiq I
This document discusses gap acceptance theory and its application in determining the capacity of traffic movements at two-way stop controlled (TWSC) intersections. It covers key concepts such as critical gap (tc), follow-up time (tf), and impedance. An example calculation is provided to estimate capacity for different movements based on conflicting traffic volumes and tc/tf values. Adjustments to tc and tf for factors like vehicle type and number of lanes are also outlined. Finally, the document provides the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) methodology for calculating control delay and level of service at TWSC intersections.
The high increase in the number of traffic accidents involving rear-end collisions has caused significant damages, prompting the need for a more sensitive car following model that accurately depicts real-world traffic environments. This document reviews fuzzy microscopic traffic models, which use linguistic terms and rules rather than deterministic mathematical functions to describe driving behavior under car following conditions. Traditional car following models make unrealistic assumptions around symmetry, safe headways, and constant acceleration/deceleration. Fuzzy logic models treat drivers as decision-makers who determine controls based on sensory inputs evaluated through fuzzy reasoning. Input variables like relative velocity and distance divergence are evaluated using fuzzy functions and rules to estimate acceleration and deceleration rates.
Bus 16 (Transportation Engineering Dr.Lina Shbeeb)Hossam Shafiq I
This document provides guidelines for designing rural bus stops. It discusses key considerations for bus stop placement and amenities. Recommendations include using driveways or low-traffic streets as informal boarding areas where full pads aren't feasible, requiring paved surfaces, and ensuring adequate sight distances and grades of less than 2%. The guidelines also provide specifications for bus stop signage, shelters, benches and other amenities based on daily boardings. Safety factors for pedestrian crossings and specifications for bus turnouts in rural and urban environments are also outlined.
PROPOSED INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEM DEPLOYMENTS IN KAJANG CITY664601
This document discusses the proposed implementation of an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) in Kajang, Malaysia to address traffic congestion issues. It outlines the study methodology, including manual traffic counts at three intersections. It analyzes the traffic flow data to determine saturation flow rates and optimal cycle times. The document then provides an overview of the overall ITS architecture, including the logical and physical architecture layers and components. These include adaptive traffic control systems, surveillance cameras, variable message signs, and communication systems. The goal of the proposed ITS is to streamline traffic flow and reduce travel times in Kajang.
This document summarizes a study on paratransit systems in Chennai, India. It defines paratransit as flexible passenger transportation that does not follow fixed routes or schedules. In Chennai, paratransit serves areas with limited public transit access and provides first/last mile connectivity. Major paratransit modes include shared autos and taxis that collectively serve over 18 million passengers daily, more than Chennai's mass transit rail system. However, most paratransit vehicles operate without permission. The study suggests recognizing paratransit officially and integrating it with other transit to improve Chennai's transportation system.
Alternative BART Fares TRB - Miller Schabas - v7FRuth Miller
This document summarizes a study that models alternative fare structures for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system using an elasticity-based approach. The study develops a spreadsheet model to predict how ridership and revenue would change under different fare policies. It applies demand elasticity values from past BART research to forecast the impact of potential new fare structures, such as peak period pricing or flat fares. The model suggests that BART could increase revenue significantly with only a small drop in ridership by introducing peak fares for trips to San Francisco. It also finds revenue could increase if off-peak discounts encouraged more trips at less congested times. The document reviews different fare structures used by other transit systems and discusses limitations of the
IRJET- Prediction of Cab Demand using Machine LearningIRJET Journal
1) The document discusses predicting taxi demand using machine learning. It aims to minimize wait times for both taxi drivers and passengers by predicting future demand and directing taxis to busy areas.
2) A recurrent neural network model is trained on historical taxi data including GPS locations and trip details to predict demand in different city areas at given times.
3) The model aims to efficiently dispatch taxis to reduce waiting times and serve more customers, helping both drivers and passengers. Predicting demand at a localized level allows drivers to go directly to busy locations.
IRJET-To Analyze Calibration of Car-Following Behavior of VehiclesIRJET Journal
This document analyzes the calibration of car-following behavior for vehicles. It discusses how car-following models are used in traffic simulations and the importance of choosing input parameters that accurately reflect real-world driver behavior. The document also examines how connectivity between vehicles can provide information to drivers to improve decision-making and safety. It proposes using percolation theory to model how communication range and vehicle density affect information availability and therefore traffic flow stability, especially with connected and autonomous vehicles. The goal is to develop a more accurate understanding of how connectivity impacts traffic behavior.
The document discusses measures that can be taken to influence a modal shift from private cars to public transport in order to reduce traffic congestion in a city. It recommends conducting a stated preference survey to understand factors that influence travel choices. It also suggests implementing policies to dissuade car use such as prioritizing public transit at traffic signals, improving reliability and travel times of public transport, and providing more real-time transit information for passengers. Safety improvements for pedestrians are also highlighted.
The document discusses Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). ITS uses technologies like sensors, microchips and wireless communication to make transportation systems more efficient and safe. It allows different elements of transportation infrastructure like vehicles, traffic lights and message signs to communicate with each other. ITS aims to reduce traffic, environmental impact and accidents through real-time traffic information and communication between vehicles and infrastructure. ITS has become necessary due to high road accident deaths worldwide. Traditional safety improvements are not enough to address this problem so ITS provides a better solution through improved safety, mobility and connectivity. The document outlines some ITS applications for traffic management, commuters and emergency response.
The document discusses several approaches to improving urban infrastructure:
1. Wireless magnetic sensors can be used to monitor traffic flow more cheaply than inductive loops, providing data to optimize traffic signals and assess road damage.
2. An organic traffic control system and dynamic route guidance can significantly reduce traffic delays, especially during incidents, by optimizing traffic light patterns and advising drivers of the best routes.
3. An automated parking system stacks vehicles vertically using mechanical lifts, nearly doubling parking capacity while reducing the land area needed compared to a multi-story parking garage.
This document summarizes a study on the paratransit sector in Chennai, India. It was conducted by Civitas Urban Solutions for Chennai City Connect Foundation, with funding from Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation. The study involved surveying share auto drivers and passengers in Chennai to understand the profile of drivers, economics of share autos, travel conditions, routes, and potential for integration with other public transportation. Key findings included that share autos are the second largest public transportation provider in Chennai, but they are an unregulated sector facing issues around integration, infrastructure support, and relationships with unions. The document recommends steps to formally recognize and regulate share autos, and integrate them with Chennai's mass transit systems.
IRJET- Design and Development of Traffic Flow Prediction System for Efficient...IRJET Journal
This document discusses the design and development of a traffic flow prediction system for Amravati City, India to improve traffic movements. It begins by noting the increasing traffic problems in Amravati due to rising vehicle numbers. The city currently uses pre-timed traffic signal controls that are inefficient. The paper proposes an intelligent transportation system using traffic signal optimization and coordination to predict traffic flows. It reviews literature on traffic simulation software and signal timing optimization methods. It then describes the methodology for developing the prediction system, which involves data collection, network modeling, simulation calibration, and using VISSIM and Synchro software to simulate and optimize traffic flows. The goal is to reduce delays, queues and travel times at intersections in Amravati.
Describe the main characteristics of the Sydney Coordinated
Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) and its use in 3 worldwide
cities. Clarification and explanation about the system and
making a comparison between three large cities that use
this system and detailing the advantages and
disadvantages of this system in each city that used it.
839- Health of Urban Road -Digitaly Published Paper IRF 2017SHRISH VERMA
The document summarizes a study analyzing traffic congestion on Vikas Marg, an urban road in Delhi, India. Traffic volume counts found peak hour volumes were below theoretical road capacity but speeds were very low, as low as 5.15 km/h. Factors contributing to congestion included unoptimized traffic signals, lack of dedicated spaces for passenger pickup/drop-off, and other elements reducing effective road capacity. The study proposes optimizing signals, road markings, and rearrangement of activities to increase capacity and speeds by 4500-5000 vehicles per hour and alleviate congestion issues.
This course provides an introduction to transportation engineering through five modules: transportation systems engineering, transportation planning, geometric design, pavement design, and traffic engineering. The objectives are to present a systems approach to transportation and describe the basic characteristics and models used in transportation planning, geometric design of highways, pavement design, and traffic engineering parameters and controls. The course aims to give students an overview of the interactions within transportation systems and the engineering concepts used in their planning, design, and operation.
The Study of Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System at University Road Peshawar, Paki...IOSR Journals
The paper is part of an ongoing research project on traffic management strategies for Peshawar
Pakistan. A survey of all the existing public transport stops on University Road Peshawar conducted for
identification of bus lane. Peak hour demand was calculated in terms of actual Passengers per hour per
direction (Pphpd)along the entire corridor which acts a warrant test for the provision of a separate lane for
public transport vehicles in Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System. Saturation Levelsand Dwell Times (sec)at every
stop both for busses and for wagons usingfrequency, clearance time, amount of boarding and alighting
passengers and journey time of existing public transport system were analyzed.From data analysis,
theSaturation Levels and Dwell Times at every stop were found higher than the recommended values mainly
because of the obstruction due to private vehicles in front of public transport vehicles,a comparatively high
percentage of private vehicles with respect to public transport vehicles and the prolong stay of drivers atbus
stops. The Saturation Levels and Dwell Times (sec) for the proposed BRT system was re-analyzed. Finally,
result of the proposed BRT system was incorporated in S-Paramics software to develop a public transport
model.
Optimized Traffic Signal Control System at Traffic Intersections Using VanetIOSR Journals
Abstract: Traditional Automated traffic signal control systems normally schedule the vehicles at intersection in
a pre timed slot manner. This pre-timed controller approach fails to minimize the waiting time of vehicles at the
traffic intersection as it doesn’t consider the arrival time of vehicles. To overcome this problem an adaptive and
intelligent traffic control system is proposed in such a way that a traffic signal controller with wireless radio
installed at the intersection and it is considered as an infrastructure. All the vehicles are equipped with onboard
location, speed sensors and a wireless radio to communicate with the infrastructure thereby VANET is formed.
Once the vehicles enter into the boundary of traffic area, they broadcast their positional information as data
packet with their encapsulated ID in it. The controller at the intersection receives the transmitted packets from
all the legs of intersection and then stores it in a temporary log file. Now the controller runs Platooning
algorithm to group the vehicles approximately in equal size of platoons. The platoons are formed on the basis of
data disseminated by the vehicles. Then the controller runs Oldest Job First algorithm which treats platoons as
jobs. The algorithm schedules jobs in conflict free manner and ensures all the jobs utilize equal processing time
i.e the vehicles of each platoons cross the intersection at equal delays. The proposed approach is evaluated
under various traffic volumes and the performance is analyzed.
Keywords Conflict graphs, online job scheduling, traffic signal control, vehicular ad hoc network (VANET)
simulation, vehicle-actuated traffic signal control, Webster’s algorithm.
Lecture 04 Capacity for TWSC (Traffic Engineering هندسة المرور & Dr. Usama Sh...Hossam Shafiq I
This document discusses gap acceptance theory and its application in determining the capacity of traffic movements at two-way stop controlled (TWSC) intersections. It covers key concepts such as critical gap (tc), follow-up time (tf), and impedance. An example calculation is provided to estimate capacity for different movements based on conflicting traffic volumes and tc/tf values. Adjustments to tc and tf for factors like vehicle type and number of lanes are also outlined. Finally, the document provides the Highway Capacity Manual (HCM) methodology for calculating control delay and level of service at TWSC intersections.
The high increase in the number of traffic accidents involving rear-end collisions has caused significant damages, prompting the need for a more sensitive car following model that accurately depicts real-world traffic environments. This document reviews fuzzy microscopic traffic models, which use linguistic terms and rules rather than deterministic mathematical functions to describe driving behavior under car following conditions. Traditional car following models make unrealistic assumptions around symmetry, safe headways, and constant acceleration/deceleration. Fuzzy logic models treat drivers as decision-makers who determine controls based on sensory inputs evaluated through fuzzy reasoning. Input variables like relative velocity and distance divergence are evaluated using fuzzy functions and rules to estimate acceleration and deceleration rates.
Bus 16 (Transportation Engineering Dr.Lina Shbeeb)Hossam Shafiq I
This document provides guidelines for designing rural bus stops. It discusses key considerations for bus stop placement and amenities. Recommendations include using driveways or low-traffic streets as informal boarding areas where full pads aren't feasible, requiring paved surfaces, and ensuring adequate sight distances and grades of less than 2%. The guidelines also provide specifications for bus stop signage, shelters, benches and other amenities based on daily boardings. Safety factors for pedestrian crossings and specifications for bus turnouts in rural and urban environments are also outlined.
PROPOSED INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEM DEPLOYMENTS IN KAJANG CITY664601
This document discusses the proposed implementation of an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) in Kajang, Malaysia to address traffic congestion issues. It outlines the study methodology, including manual traffic counts at three intersections. It analyzes the traffic flow data to determine saturation flow rates and optimal cycle times. The document then provides an overview of the overall ITS architecture, including the logical and physical architecture layers and components. These include adaptive traffic control systems, surveillance cameras, variable message signs, and communication systems. The goal of the proposed ITS is to streamline traffic flow and reduce travel times in Kajang.
This document summarizes a study on paratransit systems in Chennai, India. It defines paratransit as flexible passenger transportation that does not follow fixed routes or schedules. In Chennai, paratransit serves areas with limited public transit access and provides first/last mile connectivity. Major paratransit modes include shared autos and taxis that collectively serve over 18 million passengers daily, more than Chennai's mass transit rail system. However, most paratransit vehicles operate without permission. The study suggests recognizing paratransit officially and integrating it with other transit to improve Chennai's transportation system.
Alternative BART Fares TRB - Miller Schabas - v7FRuth Miller
This document summarizes a study that models alternative fare structures for the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system using an elasticity-based approach. The study develops a spreadsheet model to predict how ridership and revenue would change under different fare policies. It applies demand elasticity values from past BART research to forecast the impact of potential new fare structures, such as peak period pricing or flat fares. The model suggests that BART could increase revenue significantly with only a small drop in ridership by introducing peak fares for trips to San Francisco. It also finds revenue could increase if off-peak discounts encouraged more trips at less congested times. The document reviews different fare structures used by other transit systems and discusses limitations of the
IRJET- Prediction of Cab Demand using Machine LearningIRJET Journal
1) The document discusses predicting taxi demand using machine learning. It aims to minimize wait times for both taxi drivers and passengers by predicting future demand and directing taxis to busy areas.
2) A recurrent neural network model is trained on historical taxi data including GPS locations and trip details to predict demand in different city areas at given times.
3) The model aims to efficiently dispatch taxis to reduce waiting times and serve more customers, helping both drivers and passengers. Predicting demand at a localized level allows drivers to go directly to busy locations.
IRJET-To Analyze Calibration of Car-Following Behavior of VehiclesIRJET Journal
This document analyzes the calibration of car-following behavior for vehicles. It discusses how car-following models are used in traffic simulations and the importance of choosing input parameters that accurately reflect real-world driver behavior. The document also examines how connectivity between vehicles can provide information to drivers to improve decision-making and safety. It proposes using percolation theory to model how communication range and vehicle density affect information availability and therefore traffic flow stability, especially with connected and autonomous vehicles. The goal is to develop a more accurate understanding of how connectivity impacts traffic behavior.
The document discusses measures that can be taken to influence a modal shift from private cars to public transport in order to reduce traffic congestion in a city. It recommends conducting a stated preference survey to understand factors that influence travel choices. It also suggests implementing policies to dissuade car use such as prioritizing public transit at traffic signals, improving reliability and travel times of public transport, and providing more real-time transit information for passengers. Safety improvements for pedestrians are also highlighted.
The document discusses Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). ITS uses technologies like sensors, microchips and wireless communication to make transportation systems more efficient and safe. It allows different elements of transportation infrastructure like vehicles, traffic lights and message signs to communicate with each other. ITS aims to reduce traffic, environmental impact and accidents through real-time traffic information and communication between vehicles and infrastructure. ITS has become necessary due to high road accident deaths worldwide. Traditional safety improvements are not enough to address this problem so ITS provides a better solution through improved safety, mobility and connectivity. The document outlines some ITS applications for traffic management, commuters and emergency response.
The document discusses several approaches to improving urban infrastructure:
1. Wireless magnetic sensors can be used to monitor traffic flow more cheaply than inductive loops, providing data to optimize traffic signals and assess road damage.
2. An organic traffic control system and dynamic route guidance can significantly reduce traffic delays, especially during incidents, by optimizing traffic light patterns and advising drivers of the best routes.
3. An automated parking system stacks vehicles vertically using mechanical lifts, nearly doubling parking capacity while reducing the land area needed compared to a multi-story parking garage.
This document summarizes a study on the paratransit sector in Chennai, India. It was conducted by Civitas Urban Solutions for Chennai City Connect Foundation, with funding from Shakti Sustainable Energy Foundation. The study involved surveying share auto drivers and passengers in Chennai to understand the profile of drivers, economics of share autos, travel conditions, routes, and potential for integration with other public transportation. Key findings included that share autos are the second largest public transportation provider in Chennai, but they are an unregulated sector facing issues around integration, infrastructure support, and relationships with unions. The document recommends steps to formally recognize and regulate share autos, and integrate them with Chennai's mass transit systems.
IRJET- Design and Development of Traffic Flow Prediction System for Efficient...IRJET Journal
This document discusses the design and development of a traffic flow prediction system for Amravati City, India to improve traffic movements. It begins by noting the increasing traffic problems in Amravati due to rising vehicle numbers. The city currently uses pre-timed traffic signal controls that are inefficient. The paper proposes an intelligent transportation system using traffic signal optimization and coordination to predict traffic flows. It reviews literature on traffic simulation software and signal timing optimization methods. It then describes the methodology for developing the prediction system, which involves data collection, network modeling, simulation calibration, and using VISSIM and Synchro software to simulate and optimize traffic flows. The goal is to reduce delays, queues and travel times at intersections in Amravati.
Describe the main characteristics of the Sydney Coordinated
Adaptive Traffic System (SCATS) and its use in 3 worldwide
cities. Clarification and explanation about the system and
making a comparison between three large cities that use
this system and detailing the advantages and
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Motion Planning Algorithms for Autonomous Intersection Management
1. Motion Planning Algorithms for Autonomous Intersection Management
Tsz-Chiu Au
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C0500
Austin, Texas 78712-1188
chiu@cs.utexas.edu
Peter Stone
Department of Computer Science
The University of Texas at Austin
1 University Station C0500
Austin, Texas 78712-1188
pstone@cs.utexas.edu
Abstract
The impressive results of the 2007 DARPA Urban
Challenge showed that fully autonomous vehicles are
technologically feasible with current intelligent vehi-
cle hardware. It is natural to ask how current trans-
portation infrastructure can be improved when most ve-
hicles are driven autonomously in the future. Dres-
ner and Stone proposed a new intersection control
mechanism called Autonomous Intersection Manage-
ment (AIM) and showed in simulation that intersec-
tion control can be made more efficient than the tra-
ditional control mechanisms such as traffic signals and
stop signs. In this paper, we extend the study by ex-
amining the relationship between the precision of cars’
motion controllers and the efficiency of the intersec-
tion controller. We propose a planning-based motion
controller that can reduce the chance that autonomous
vehicles stop before intersections, and show that this
controller can increase the efficiency of the intersection
control mechanism.
Introduction
Recent advances in intelligent vehicle technology suggest
that autonomous vehicles will become a reality in the near
future (Squatriglia 2010). Today’s transportation infras-
tructure, however, does not utilize the full capacity of au-
tonomous driving systems. Dresner and Stone proposed
a multiagent systems approach to intersection management
called Autonomous Intersection Management (AIM), and in
particular describe a First Come, First Served (FCFS) pol-
icy for directing vehicles through an intersection (Dresner
and Stone 2008). This approach has been shown, in sim-
ulation, to yield significant improvements in intersection
performance over conventional intersection control mecha-
nisms such as traffic signals and stop signs. Despite its im-
pressive performance, we believe that it is possible to make
this intersection control mechanism more efficient by con-
sidering how best autonomous vehicles can utilize the inter-
section management protocol.
In this paper, we present an improved controller for au-
tonomous vehicles to interact with intersection managers in
AIM. First, we leverage Little’s law in queueing theory to
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understand how the performance of an autonomous vehi-
cle relates to the overall intersection throughput. Then we
identify approaches to improve the motion controllers of au-
tonomous vehicles such that they can plan ahead of time
when they make reservations in the AIM system and tra-
verse the intersection at a higher speed. We used motion
planning techniques to address two problems in making and
maintaining reservations: (1) how a vehicle computes the
best time and velocity for arriving at the intersection such
that it is less likely to stop at the intersection; and (2) how
a vehicle decides whether it can arrive at the intersection at
the time and velocity proposed by the intersection manager,
such that it can cancel the reservation earlier if it knows it
cannot make it. We predict that the use of these planning
techniques can improve the throughput of intersections and
reduce the traversal time of vehicles, thus providing motiva-
tion for autonomous vehicles to adopt these planning-based
controllers.
Autonomous Intersection Management
Traffic signals and stop signs are very inefficient—not only
do vehicles traversing intersections experience large de-
lays, but the intersections themselves can only manage a
limited traffic capacity—much less than that of the roads
that feed into them. Dresner and Stone have introduced a
novel approach to efficient intersection management that is
a radical departure from existing traffic signal optimization
schemes (Dresner and Stone 2008). The solution is based
on a reservation paradigm, in which vehicles “call ahead” to
reserve space-time in the intersection. In the approach, they
assume that computer programs called driver agents control
the vehicles, while an arbiter agent called an intersection
manager is placed at each intersection. The driver agents
attempt to reserve a block of space-time in the intersection.
The intersection manager decides whether to grant or reject
requested reservations according to an intersection control
policy. In brief, the paradigm proceeds as follows.
• An approaching vehicle announces its impending arrival
to the intersection manager. The vehicle indicates its size,
predicted arrival time, velocity, acceleration, and arrival
and departure lanes.
• The intersection manager simulates the vehicle’s path
through the intersection, checking for conflicts with the
paths of any previously processed vehicles.
2. REQUEST
Intersection
Control Policy
REJECT
CONFIRM
Preprocess
Postprocess
Yes,
Restrictions
No, Reason
Driver
Agent
Intersection Manager
Figure 1: Diagram of the intersection system.
(a) Successful (b) Rejected
Figure 2: (a) The vehicle’s space-time request has no con-
flicts at time t. (b) The black vehicle’s request is rejected
because at time t of its simulated trajectory, the vehicle re-
quires a tile already reserved by another vehicle. The shaded
area represents the static buffer of the vehicle.
• If there are no conflicts, the intersection manager issues
a reservation. It becomes the vehicle’s responsibility to
arrive at, and travel through, the intersection as specified
(within a range of error tolerance).
• The car may only enter the intersection once it has suc-
cessfully obtained a reservation.
Figure 1 diagrams the interaction between driver agents
and an intersection manager. A key feature of this paradigm
is that it relies only on vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) com-
munication. In particular, the vehicles need not know any-
thing about each other beyond what is needed for local au-
tonomous control (e.g., to avoid running into the car in
front). The paradigm is also completely robust to commu-
nication disruptions: if a message is dropped, either by the
intersection manager or by the vehicle, delays may increase,
but safety is not compromised. Safety can also be guaran-
teed in mixed mode scenarios when both autonomous and
manual vehicles operate at intersections. The intersection
efficiency will increase with the ratio of autonomous vehi-
cles to manual vehicles in such scenarios.
The prototype intersection control policy divides the inter-
section into a grid of reservation tiles, as shown in Figure 2.
When a vehicle approaches the intersection, the intersection
manager uses the data in the reservation request regarding
the time and velocity of arrival, vehicle size, etc. to simulate
the intended journey across the intersection. At each simu-
lated time step, the policy determines which reservation tiles
will be occupied by the vehicle.
If at any time during the trajectory simulation the re-
questing vehicle occupies a reservation tile that is already
reserved by another vehicle, the policy rejects the driver’s
reservation request, and the intersection manager communi-
cates this to the driver agent. Otherwise, the policy accepts
the reservation and reserves the appropriate tiles. The inter-
section manager then sends a confirmation to the driver. If
the reservation is denied, it is the vehicle’s responsibility to
maintain a speed such that it can stop before the intersection.
Meanwhile, it can request a different reservation.
Empirical results in simulation demonstrate that the pro-
posed reservation system can dramatically improve the inter-
section efficiency when compared to traditional intersection
control mechanisms. To quantify efficiency, Dresner and
Stone introduce delay, defined as the amount of travel time
incurred by the vehicle as the result of passing through the
intersection. According to their experiments, the reserva-
tion system performs very well, nearly matching the perfor-
mance of the optimal policy which represents a lower bound
on delay should there be no other cars on the road (Figure 14
in (Dresner and Stone 2008)). Overall, by allowing for much
finer-grained coordination, the simulation-based reservation
system can dramatically reduce per-car delay by two orders
of magnitude in comparison to traffic signals and stop signs.
Little’s Law
First of all, let us consider factors that affect the maximum
throughput characteristics of intersections. An important re-
sult in queueing theory is Littles law (Little 1961), which
states that in a queueing system the average arrival rate of
customers λ is equal to the average number of customers
T in the system divided by the average time W a customer
spends in the system. In the context of intersection manage-
ment, Little’s law can be written as L = λW, where
• L is the average number of vehicles in the intersection;
• λ is the average arrival rate of the vehicles at the intersec-
tion; and
• W is the average time a vehicle spends in the intersection.
Note that the arrival rate is equal to the throughput of the
system since no vehicle stalls inside an intersection.
Little’s law shows that the maximum throughput (i.e., the
upper bound of λ) an intersection can sustain is equal to the
upper bound of L divided by the lower bound of W, where
the upper bound of L is the maximum number of vehicles
that can coexist in an intersection, and the lower bound of
W is the minimum time a vehicle spends in the intersection.
Thus, Little’s law shows that there are two ways to increase
the maximum throughput: 1) increase the average number
of vehicles in an intersection at any moment of time, and 2)
decrease the average time a vehicle spends in an intersection.
A trivial upper bound on L is the area of the intersec-
tion divided by the average static buffer size of the vehi-
cles. But this bound is rather loose and in practice unachiev-
able. Nonetheless, it provides us some hints about the de-
pendence between the maximum throughput and the aver-
age static buffer size of the vehicles. Unfortunately the size
of an intersection is a hard limit and the static buffer sizes
3. cannot be too small—there is little an intersection manager
can do to squeeze more vehicles into the intersection. There-
fore, we cannot dramatically increase the average number of
vehicles in an intersection at any moment of time.
Little’s law shows that another way to increase the maxi-
mum throughput is to reduce the average time a vehicle takes
to traverse an intersection. In other words, a vehicle should
maintain a high speed during the traversal of the intersec-
tion in order to shorten its traversal time. Vehicle’s velocity
in the intersection depends on two factors: 1) the initial ve-
locity when the vehicle enters the intersection, and 2) the
acceleration during the traversal. In the following sections,
we will present two techniques that allow vehicles to main-
tain a high speed during the traversal.
Optimizing Arrival Times and Velocities via
Planning Techniques
One of the keys to entering an intersection at a high speed is
to prevent vehicles from stopping before entering the inter-
section. FCFS, by itself, reduces the number of vehicles that
stop at an intersection, and therefore it allows vehicles to en-
ter an intersection at a high speed most of the time. In fact, it
is one of the main reasons why FCFS is more efficient than
traffic lights and stop signs (Dresner and Stone 2008). While
FCFS has done a good job in this regard, there is still room
for improvement on the autonomous vehicles’ side such that
driver agents can help by preventing themselves from stop-
ping before an intersection.
There are two scenarios in which an autonomous vehicle
has to stop before an intersection in FCFS. First, the vehicle
cannot obtain a reservation from the intersection manager
and is forced to stop before an intersection. This happens
when the traffic level is heavy and most of the future reser-
vation tiles have been reserved by other vehicles in the sys-
tem. Second, the vehicle successfully obtains a reservation
but later determines that it will not arrive at the intersection
at the time and/or velocity specified in the reservation. In
this scenario the vehicle has to cancel the reservations and
those reservation tiles may have been wasted. The effect
of a reservation cancellation is not only that the vehicle in
question has to stop, but also that temporarily holding reser-
vation tiles may have prevented another vehicle from mak-
ing reservation. Both of these effects lead to a reduction in
the maximum throughput of the intersection.
A poor estimation of arrival times and arrival velocities
can lead to the cancellation of reservations. In previous
work, the estimation of arrival times and arrival velocities
is based on a heuristic we called the optimistic/pessimistic
heuristic, that derives the arrival time and arrival velocity
based on a prediction about whether the vehicle can arrive
at the intersection without the intervention of other vehi-
cles (Dresner 2009). However, this heuristic does not guar-
antee that the vehicle can arrive at the intersection at the
estimated arrival time or the estimated arrival velocity; in
fact, our experiments showed that vehicles are often unable
to reach the intersection at the correct time, forcing them to
cancel their reservations after holding the reservations for
quite some time.
To avoid this problem we propose a new approach to es-
timate the arrival time and arrival velocity. In our approach
when a driver agent estimates its arrival time and arrival ve-
locity, it also generates a sequence of control signals. These
control signals, if followed correctly, ensure that the vehicle
will arrive at the estimated arrival time and at the estimated
arrival velocity. We can formulate this estimation problem as
the following multiobjective optimization problem: among
all possible sequences of control signals that control the ve-
hicle to enter an intersection, find one such that the arrival
time is the smallest and the arrival velocity is the highest.
For an acceleration-based controller, the sequence of con-
trol signals is a time sequence of accelerations stating the ac-
celeration the vehicle should take at every time step. We call
a time sequence of accelerations an acceleration schedule.
Like many multiobjective optimization problems, there is
no single solution that dominates all other solutions in terms
of both arrival time and arrival velocity. Here we choose
arrival velocity as the primary objective, since a higher ar-
rival velocity can allow the vehicle to enter the intersection
at a higher speed. Our optimization procedure involves two
steps: first, determine the highest possible arrival velocity
the vehicle can achieve, and second, among all the accelera-
tion schedules that yield the highest possible arrival velocity,
find the one whose arrival time is the soonest.
We illustrate how the estimation procedure works using a
time-velocity diagram as shown in Figure 3. In this figure,
v1 is the current velocity of the vehicle, t1 is the current time,
D is the distance between the current position of the vehicle
and the intersection, vmax
is the speed limit of the road, and
vmax
2 is the speed limit at the intersection. In addition, we
define amax and amin to be the maximum acceleration and
the maximum deceleration (minimum acceleration), respec-
tively. We can see that any function v(·) in the time-velocity
diagram that satisfies the following five constraints is a fea-
sible velocity schedule for velocity-based controllers.
1. v(t1) = v1;
2.
tend
t1
v(t) dt = D, where tend is the arrival time (i.e., the
distance traveled must be D);
3. v(tend) ≤ vmax
2 (i.e., the arrival velocity cannot exceed
the speed limit at the intersection);
4. 0 ≤ v(t) ≤ vmax
for t1 ≤ t ≤ tend (i.e., the velocity
cannot exceed the speed limit of the road or be negative at
any point in time); and
5. amin ≤ d
dt v(t) ≤ amax for for 0 ≤ t ≤ tend (i.e.,
the acceleration at any point in time must be within the
limitations).
We call v(·) a velocity schedule, which can be directly used
in velocity-based controllers. A velocity schedule is feasi-
ble if it satisfies the above constraints. Our objective is to
find a feasible velocity schedule v(·) such that v(tend) is
as high as possible while tend is as small as possible. For
acceleration-based controllers, we can compute the corre-
sponding feasible acceleration schedule by the derivative of
v(·) (i.e., d
dt v(t)).
4. Velocity
Time
v1
v2
max
vmax
Area1 Area2 Area3
t2 t3t1 tend
(a) Case 1: Area1 + Area3 ≤ D
Velocity
Time
v1
v2
max
vmax
Area4 Area5
vtop
t4t1 tend
(b) Case 2: Area1 + Area3 > D
Figure 3: The time-velocity diagrams for the estimation of
the arrival time and the arrival velocity.
We propose an optimization procedure that can find v(·)
with the highest possible v(tend) and smallest tend. The ba-
sic idea of the procedure is as follows. First of all, compute
two values Area1 and Area3 as shown in Figure 3(a). To
compute Area1, find a point (t2, vmax
) in the velocity-time
diagram such that (t2, vmax
) is an interception of the line
extending from (t1, v1) with slope amax and the horizon-
tal line v = vmax
. Let Area1 be the area of the trapezoid
under the line segment from (t1, v1) to (t2, vmax
). Sim-
ilarly, to compute Area3, we arbitrarily choose an arrival
time tend and then find an intercepting point (t3, vmax
) be-
tween the line v = vmax
and the line passing through the
point (tend, vmax
2 ) with slope amin. Let Area3 be the area
of the trapezoid under the line segment from (t3, vmax
) to
(tend, vmax
2 ). Note that Area3 does not depend on the value
of tend and t3; we only need to know the value of vmax
2 ,
vmax
and amin to compute Area3.
If Area1 + Area3 ≤ D, the vehicle can accelerate to
vmax
, maintain the speed for a certain period of time, de-
celerate to vmax
2 , and finally reach the intersection (Case
1 in Figure 3(a)). Then Area2 = D − Area1 − Area3 is
non-negative. Let d be Area2
vmax . Then we can determine the
actual value of t3 and tend by t3 = t2 + d and tend =
t3 + 2×Area3
vmax+vmax
2
. From this the optimization procedure can
find a piecewise linear function for v(·) such that v(·) is
a feasible velocity schedule. For acceleration-based con-
trollers, the optimization procedure returns the acceleration
schedule (t1, amax), (t2, 0), (t3, amin) , which succinctly
represents the derivative of v(·).
If Area1 + Area3 > D, the vehicle cannot accelerate
to vmax
because the distance D is too small—if it accel-
erates to vmax
, it does have time to decelerate and its ar-
rival velocity will exceed vmax
2 . But the vehicle may still
be able to accelerate to a velocity vtop
that is less than the
speed limit vmax
and then decelerate to vmax
2 when it ar-
rives at the intersection. To check whether it is possible
to do so, the optimization procedure tries to find the inter-
section point (t4, vtop
) between (1) the line passing through
(t1, v1) with slope amax and (2) the line passing through
(tend, vmax
2 ) with slope amin (see Figure 3(b)). Further-
more, the area under the line segments in Figure 3(b) must
be equal to D (i.e., Area4 + Area5 = D). Then we got
the following system of equations: (1) t4 − t1 = vtop
−v1
amax
;
(2) tend − t4 =
vmax
2 −vtop
amin
; (3) Area4 = (t4 − t1)(v1 +
vtop
)/2; (4) Area5 = (tend − t4)(vtop
+ vmax
2 )/2; and
(5) D = Area4 + Area5. With some calculations, we
get vtop
=
amax(vmax
2 )2−aminv2
1−2amaxaminD
amax−amin
. It can be
shown that vtop
is real if D ≥ 0, thus vtop
always exists.
Finally, the procedure checks to ensure that Area4 ≥ 0 and
Area5 ≥ 0. It turns out that Area4 ≥ 0 and Area5 ≥ 0
if and only if vtop
≥ v1 and vtop
≥ vmax
2 . Thus, if
vtop
≥ v1 and vtop
≥ vmax
2 , the acceleration schedule is
(t1, amax), (t4, amin) as shown in Figure 3(b).
If vtop
< v1 or vtop
< vmax
2 , either Area4 > D or
Area5 > D. This implies that it is impossible to arrive
at the intersection with the maximum arrival velocity vmax
2
while satisfying all the constraints. In this case, the proce-
dure will try to find an acceleration schedule that maximizes
the arrival velocity, namely v2, where v2 < vmax
2 . First, if
v1 ≤ vmax
2 , the vehicle can keep accelerating until it hits the
intersection, and the arrival velocity will be maximized de-
spite it is less than vmax
2 . Thus, the procedure simply returns
the acceleration schedule (t1, amax) , which maximize the
arrival velocity and minimize the arrival time. Second, if
v1 > vmax
2 , the vehicle is too close to the intersection and it
does not have time to decelerate to a velocity less than vmax
2 .
There is no feasible acceleration schedule for this case since
the arrival velocity is larger than the speed limit at the in-
tersection. The vehicle controller should avoid this case by
avoiding making reservations too late.
The optimization procedure considers piecewise linear
functions only such that slopes of the line segments can only
be either amax, amin, or 0, because for any non-piecewise
linear function that satisfies the constraints, we can always
find a piecewise linear function with a smaller tend and/or a
larger v(tend).
Validating Arrival Times and Velocities via
Planning Techniques
In the previous section, we presented an optimization algo-
rithm that an autonomous vehicle can use to determine its
arrival time and velocity with the guarantee that the vehicle
can arrive at the intersection at the arrival time and veloc-
ity if it follows the acceleration schedule (or the velocity
5. schedule) closely. The use of this algorithm can prevent the
vehicle from making reservations whose arrival times and
velocities are not achievable and avoid stopping before the
intersection due to these faulty reservation requests.
However, an improved reservation request is not sufficient
to ensure that the vehicle can avoid stopping before an inter-
section and entering an intersection at high speed; the vehi-
cle must also take the confirmation message sent from the
intersection manager into account. When an autonomous
vehicle receives a confirmation message about the reserva-
tion it makes, the message instructs the vehicle to arrive at
the intersection at a specific arrival time and at a specific ar-
rival velocity. Depending on the traffic conditions and the
intersection management policy, the arrival time and veloc-
ity in the confirmation message are not necessarily the same
as the ones proposed by the vehicle in the reservation re-
quests. More importantly, there is a delay between sending
the reservation request and receiving the confirmation mes-
sage, and during that time the vehicle’s position and veloc-
ity may have changed and thus the vehicle may no longer
be able to follow the acceleration schedule generated for the
reservation request.
Thus it is important for vehicles to check the confirmation
message to see whether it can still arrive at the intersection at
the given arrival time and velocity. If the vehicle finds that
the arrival time and velocity are unachievable, the vehicle
should cancel the reservation as early as possible for two
reasons: (1) it avoids holding the reservation tiles that the
vehicles cannot use and release them as early as possible to
let other vehicles to take them; and (2) the vehicle can send
another reservation request as soon as possible and hopefully
it will then get a feasible reservation time and velocity. In
short, an early cancellation of unpromising reservation can
improve the throughput of an intersection.
In order to check whether a vehicle can arrive at the inter-
section at the designated arrival time and velocity, we need
another procedure to solve the following problem: given an
arrival time tend and an arrival velocity vend, find a sequence
of control signals such that the vehicle can arrive at the in-
tersection at time tend and velocity vend while satisfying all
the velocity and acceleration constraints. If the procedure
proves that no such sequence of control signals exists, the
vehicle should cancel the reservation to free the reservation
tiles and make another reservation request.
Here is our problem definition. Given
• the current time t1 and the current velocity v1 of the vehi-
cle;
• the arrival time tend and the arrival velocity vend (we as-
sume vened is less than the speed limit at the intersection);
• the distance D between the current position of the vehicle
and the intersection;
• the speed limit of the road vmax
(we assume vmax
is less
than or equal to the maximum velocity of the vehicle);
• the maximum acceleration amax and the minimum accel-
eration amin (i.e., the maximum deceleration) of the ve-
hicle.
The objective is to decide whether an acceleration schedule
(or a velocity schedule) exists such that the vehicle can arrive
at the intersection at time tend at velocity vend while satis-
fying all the constraints. If no such acceleration schedule
exists, the vehicle should cancel the reservation; otherwise,
the vehicle can follow the acceleration schedule in order to
arrive at the intersection at the given time and velocity.
We call this problem “the validation problem”, as opposed
to “the optimization problem” in the previous section. As its
name suggested, the validation problem has no optimization
because tend and vend are given beforehand. Instead, it is
a decision problem in which a certificate is an acceleration
schedule that can be verified by a simulation of the vehicle
following the acceleration schedule.
There are sampling techniques for motion planning that
can effectively explore a complicated configuration space
and generate a solution path (e.g., rapidly-exploring random
trees (LaValle 1998; LaValle and James J. Kuffner 2000)).
These sampling techniques, however, provide no guarantee
of finding the solution. More importantly, these techniques
cannot be used to prove the non-existence of solutions for a
motion planning problem. In our intersection management
problem, showing the non-existence of acceleration sched-
ule that meets the requirements is very important. If an ac-
celeration schedule does not exist and the algorithm cannot
prove its non-existence, the vehicle cannot decide whether it
should cancel the reservation until possibly it is very close
to the intersection. Therefore, we are looking for an effi-
cient algorithm that can decide whether the validation prob-
lem has solutions. In this section, we will present such an
algorithm.
Once again, we rely on an analysis of the time-velocity
diagram. Given t1, tend, v1, D, vend, vmax
amax and
amin as defined above, we draw a time-velocity diagram as
shown in Figure 4. The idea is to find a function v(·) in
the time-velocity diagram connecting the point (t1, v1) and
(tend, vend) while satisfying the following constraints:
1. v(t1) = v1 and v(tend) = vend;
2.
tend
t1
v(t) dt = D (i.e., the distance traveled must be D);
3. 0 ≤ v(t) ≤ vmax
for t1 ≤ t ≤ tend (i.e., the velocity
cannot exceed the speed limit or be negative at any point
in time); and
4. amin ≤ d
dt v(t) ≤ amax for t1 ≤ t ≤ tend (i.e., the
acceleration at any point in time must be within the limi-
tations).
If such a function exists, a vehicle following the velocity
schedule v(·) (or the acceleration schedule d
dt v(t)) can ar-
rive at the intersection at time tend at velocity vend; other-
wise, it is impossible for the vehicle to arrive at the inter-
section at tend and vend without violating some constraints.
Hence, the key to answer the validation problem is to decide
whether v(·) exists.
First of all, let us study the shape of v(·) in the time-
velocity diagram if it exists. In Figure 4, we draw two
lines starting at (t1, v1) with slope amax and amin respec-
tively. Similarly, we draw two lines ending at (tend, vend)
6. vmax
Velocity
Time
v1
vend
tend
AreaL AreaR
Area3
Area2
Area1
t1
0
v(t)
Figure 4: The time-velocity diagram for the validation of the
arrival time tend and the arrival velocity vend.
with slope amax and amin. The four lines form a paral-
lelogram, and we are certain that v(·) must lie inside this
parallelogram; otherwise, it will violate the acceleration
constraints amin ≤ d
dt v(t) ≤ amax. In addition, since
0 ≤ v(t) ≤ vmax
for t1 ≤ t ≤ tend, we know v(·) must lie
inside the hexagon represented by the solid lines in Figure 4.
Here we assume that the lines intersect to form a hexagon;
but it is trivial to extend our approach to handle degenerate
cases in which the lines do not form a hexagon. Then the re-
maining contraint that we need to deal with is to make sure
that the area under v(·) must be D (i.e.,
tend
t1
v(t) dt = D).
We call this constraint the travel distance constraint.
A key insight for checking whether v(·) satisfies the travel
distance constraint is that we don’t need to check all possible
functions for the constraints; instead we only need to check
any one of the three piecewise linear functions in Figure 5
to see which one satisfies the constraint. Intuitively, imagine
the area under v(·) in Figure 4 is liquid and the hexagon is
a container. Then the liquid inside the container will even-
tually level off and the shape of the liquid will be one of the
piecewise linear functions in Figure 5 whose area is also D.
To select the right piecewise linear function among the
functions in Figure 5, we look at the value of D. There are
five possible cases:
• Case 1: AreaL +AreaR +Area1 +Area2 < D ≤ AreaL +
AreaR + Area1 + Area2 + Area3,
• Case 2: AreaL +AreaR +Area1 < D ≤ AreaL +AreaR +
Area1 + Area2,
• Case 3: AreaL + AreaR ≤ D ≤ AreaL + AreaR + Area1,
• Case 4: D < AreaL + AreaR,
• Case 5: AreaL + AreaR + Area1 + Area2 + Area3 < D,
where Area1, Area2, and Area3 are the areas of the parallel-
ograms inside the hexagon, and AreaL and AreaR are the ar-
eas of the triangles at the left and right corners of the graph.
See Figure 4 for the location of these areas.
The first three cases are illustrated in Figure 5. The last
two cases are infeasible cases in which no v(·) satisfies the
vmax
Velocity
Time
v1
vend
tend
AreaL AreaR
AreaK
Area2
Area1
t1
0
v(t)
(a) Case 1: AreaL + AreaR + Area1 + Area2 < D ≤
AreaL + AreaR + Area1 + Area2 + Area3
vmax
Velocity
Time
v1
vend
tend
AreaL AreaR
AreaK
Area1
t1
0
v(t)
(b) Case 2: AreaL + AreaR + Area1 < D ≤ AreaL +
AreaR + Area1 + Area2
vmax
Velocity
Time
v1
vend
tend
AreaL AreaR
AreaK
t1
0
v(t)
(c) Case 3: AreaL +AreaR ≤ D ≤ AreaL +AreaR +Area1
Figure 5: The three piecewise linear functions for the vali-
dation of the arrival time and the arrival velocity.
7. travel distance constraint. In case 4, the vehicle is too close
to the intersection; even if the vehicle decelerates as much as
possible and then accelerate as much as possible, the vehi-
cle cannot reach the intersection at the given arrival time and
velocity. In case 5, the vehicle is too far away from the inter-
section; no matter how it runs it cannot reach the intersection
at the given arrival time and velocity without exceeding the
speed limit or acceleration limitions.
These five cases are exhaustive and mutually exclusive;
thus we can identify which case it is for any given D. Based
on this property, we propose a validation procedure that
proceeds as follows: first, compute Area1, Area2, Area3
AreaL, and AreaR using basic geometric calculations. Sec-
ond, check which of the five cases is the case for the given
constraints. Finally, if the case is one of those in Figure 5,
compute the two intersections of the lines in the pairwise-
linear function and return the acceleration schedule; other-
wise, an infeasible case is found and the vehicle acts accord-
ingly.
We can show that our validation procedure returns a so-
lution if and only if a v(·) exists that satisfies all of the con-
straints. It is a nice property as we mentioned early, since
it can determine the impossibility of arriving at the intersec-
tion at the given time and velocity as early as possible. In
this case, the vehicle can reject the reservation to free up the
reservation tiles and let other vehicles to reserve them. The
vehicle can then issue another reservation request as soon as
possible and hopefully get a better arrival time and velocity
from the intersection manager.
Experimental Evaluation
We call the driver agent using the optimization procedure
and the validation procedure a planning-based driver agent,
since it uses motion planning techniques to evaluate the
arrival time and velocities before reaching the intersec-
tion. To evaluate the planning-based driver agent we im-
plemented it in the AIM simulator and conducted an experi-
ment to compare it with the driving agent based on the opti-
mistic/pessimistic heuristic implemented in (Dresner 2009).
In this experiment, the intersection has four incoming lanes
and four outgoing lanes in each of the four canonical direc-
tions. The speed limits of the lanes are set to be 25 m/s. The
static buffer size of the vehicles are set to be 0.25m, which is
sufficient for the simulated vehicles in the simulator. Other
parameters of the autonomous vehicles are: the internal time
buffer is 0s, the edge time buffer is 0.25s, and the maximum
acceleration is 4 m/s. Then we vary the traffic level of each
lane from 0.1 vehicles per second to 0.3 vehicles per sec-
ond, and at each traffic level we run the simulator for one
hour (simulated time) and compute the average delay of the
vehicles.
The result of the experiment is shown in Figure 6. From
the figure, we can see that when the traffic level is below
0.15 vehicles per seconds, most vehicles can get through the
intersection without stopping (i.e., average delay is almost 0)
and there is little difference between the performance of both
driver agents. However, when the traffic level is more than
0.15 vehicles per seconds, the average delay of our planning-
based driver agents is much lower than the average delay of
the driver agents based on the optimistic/pessimistic heuris-
tic. When the average delay of the heuristic-based driver
agents levels off at the 0.25 traffic rate (which indicates that
the throughput of the intersection has been saturated), the
average delay of the planning-based driver agents remains
low. Thus the use of our planning-based controller can in-
crease the maximum throughput of the intersection and re-
duce the average delay.
0.00 0.05 0.10 0.15 0.20 0.25 0.30
Traffic Rate (cars/sec)
0
10
20
30
40
50
AverageDelay(seconds)
Average Delay at Speed 7.5 m/s and Static Buffer size of 0.25
Figure 6: Comparison of the planning-based driver agent
(red dots) with the driver agent based on the opti-
mistic/pessimistic heuristic (purple dots).
Related Work
Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is a multidisci-
plinary field concerns with advancing modern transporta-
tion systems with information technology (Bishop 2005). A
noticeable research project on ITS is the Berkeley PATH
project, which proposed a fully-automated highway sys-
tem (Alvarez and Horowitz 1997). But most of the existing
work on ITS focus on how to assist human drivers in the ex-
isting transportation infrastructure, and do not assume vehi-
cles are driven autonomously by computer. Hence, most of
the tools developed by transportation engineer (e.g., TRAN-
SYT (Robertson 1969) and SCOOT (Hunt et al. 1981))
aim to optimize traffic signals rather than substitute them
with a better mechanism. For intersection management,
there are many work on the problem of intersection col-
lision avoidance (Lindner, Kressel, and Kaelberer 2004;
Naumann and Rasche 1997; Rasche et al. 1997; Nau-
mann, Rasche, and Tacken 1998; Reynolds 1999; USDOT
2003). But none of these work concerns with autonomous
vehicles. Balan and Luke presented a history-based traf-
fic control (Balan and Luke 2006) that is potentially appli-
cable to autonomous vehicles. Queueing theory has been
widely used in traffic analysis (Mannering, Washburn, and
Kilareski 2008). Our analysis emphasizes how microscopic
control of autonomous vehicles (via planning techniques)
could affect the throughput of an intersection. Motion plan-
ning is an important subject in robotics and control the-
ory. When compared with existing work in motion plan-
ning (e.g, rapidly-exploring random trees (LaValle 1998;
8. LaValle and James J. Kuffner 2000)), our motion planning
algorithms make use of the non-existence of solutions to im-
prove the throughput in autonomous intersection manage-
ment.
Conclusions and Future Work
The DARPA Urban Challenge in 2007 showed that fully
autonomous vehicles are technologically feasible with cur-
rent intelligent vehicle technology (DARPA 2007). Some
researchers predict that within 5–20 years there will be
autonomous vehicles for sale on the automobile market.
Therefore the time is right to rethink our current trans-
portation infrastructure, which is designed solely for human
drivers. Dresner and Stone proposed to substitute traffic sig-
nals and stop signs for a new intersection control mecha-
nism, namely FCFS, that takes advantages of the capability
of autonomous vehicles, and demonstrated its effectiveness
in simulation (Dresner and Stone 2008). In this paper we
show that the efficiency of FCFS can be improved by using
better vehicle controllers with motion planning techniques
that takes reservation parameters into account. We expli-
cated the relationship between the throughput of an inter-
section and various parameters of the intersection and ve-
hicles via Little’s law, and proposed planning-based tech-
niques to increase the throughput of an intersection. These
findings allow us to implement specific improvements to our
autonomous vehicle with the goal of achieving better reser-
vations in AIM. In the future, we intend to modify and im-
plement the algorithms for real autonomous vehicles, and
evaluate them in the real world settings.
Acknowledgments
This work has taken place in the Learning Agents Research
Group (LARG) at the Artificial Intelligence Laboratory, The
University of Texas at Austin. LARG research is sup-
ported in part by grants from the National Science Founda-
tion (CNS-0615104 and IIS-0917122), ONR (N00014-09-1-
0658), DARPA (FA8650-08-C-7812), and the Federal High-
way Administration (DTFH61-07-H-00030).
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