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Connected automated vehicles (CAVs) have brought new opportunities to improve traffic throughput and reduce energy consumption. However, the uncertain lane-change behaviors (LCBs) of surrounding vehicles (SVs) as an uncontrollable factor…
Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) can have significant impacts on the transport system and land use by replacing private vehicles. Sharing vehicles without drivers is expected to reduce parking demand, and as a side effect, increase…
Unsignalized intersection cooperation of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is able to eliminate green time loss of signalized intersections and improve traffic efficiency. Most of the existing research on unsignalized intersection…
This paper considers an unsignalized intersection used by two traffic streams. A stream of cars is using a primary road, and has priority over the other, low-priority, stream. Cars belonging to the latter stream cross the primary road if…
Multi-conflict traffic is ubiquitous. Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs) offer unprecedented opportunities to enhance safety, reduce emissions, and increase throughput through precise coordination and automation. However, existing CAV…
Connected vehicles will change the modes of future transportation management and organization, especially at an intersection without traffic light. Centralized coordination methods globally coordinate vehicles approaching the intersection…
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) technology facilitates the advancement of intelligent transportation. However, intelligent control techniques for mixed traffic flow at signalized intersections involving both CAVs and Human-Driven…
The rapid growth of traffic-related fatalities and injuries around the world including developed countries has drawn researchers' attention for conducting research on automated highway systems to improve road safety over the past few years.…
Compared with traditional vehicle longitudinal spacing control strategies, the combination spacing strategy can integrate the advantages of different spacing control strategies. However, the impact mechanism of different combination spacing…
Shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) will be introduced in greater numbers over the coming decade. Due to rapid advances in shared mobility and the slower development of fully autonomous vehicles (AVs), SAVs will likely be deployed before…
We derive optimal control policies for a Connected Automated Vehicle (CAV) and cooperating neighboring CAVs to carry out a lane change maneuver consisting of a longitudinal phase where the CAV properly positions itself relative to the…
We address the problem of merging traffic from two roadways consisting of both Connected Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) and Human Driven Vehicles (HDVs). Guaranteeing safe merging in such mixed traffic settings is challenging due to the…
The capability afforded by Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication improves situational awareness and provides advantages for many of the traffic problems caused by reduced visibility or No-Line-of-Sight situations, being useful for both…
Developing safety and efficiency applications for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) require a great deal of testing and evaluation. The need for the operation of these systems in critical and dangerous situations makes the burden of…
This paper reports an experimental study on oscillation growth in mixed traffic flow of automated vehicles (AVs) and human driven vehicles (HVs). The leading vehicle moves with constant speed in the experiment. The following vehicles…
Connected Automated Vehicles (CAVs) bring promise of increasing traffic capacity and energy efficiency by forming platoons with short headways on the road. However at low CAV penetration, the capacity gain will be small because the CAVs…
We address the security of a network of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) cooperating to navigate through a conflict area. Adversarial attacks such as Sybil attacks can cause safety violations resulting in collisions and traffic jams.…
Ramp metering, a traditional traffic control strategy for conventional vehicles, has been widely deployed around the world since the 1960s. On the other hand, the last decade has witnessed significant advances in connected and automated…
Freeway on-ramps are typical bottlenecks in the freeway network due to the frequent disturbances caused by their associated merging, weaving, and lane-changing behaviors. With real-time communication and precise motion control, Connected…
Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) can reduce human errors in traffic accidents, increase road efficiency, and execute various tasks ranging from delivery to smart city surveillance. Reaping these benefits requires CAVs to…