Increasing Traffic Flows with DSRC Technology: Field Trials and Performance Evaluation
Abstract
As traffic congestion becomes a huge problem for most developing and developed countries across the world, intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are becoming a hot topic that is attracting attention of researchers and the general public alike. In this paper, we demonstrate a specific implementation of an ITS system whereby traffic lights are actuated by DSRC radios installed in vehicles. More specifically, we report the design of prototype of a DSRC-Actuated Traffic Lights (DSRC-ATL) system. It is shown that this system can reduce the travel time and commute time significantly, especially during rush hours. Furthermore, the results reported in this paper do not assume or require all vehicles to be equipped with DSCR radios. Even with low penetration ratios, e.g., when only 20% of all vehicles in a city are equipped with DSRC radios, the overall performance of the designed system is superior to the current traffic control systems.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1807.01388,
title = {Increasing Traffic Flows with DSRC Technology: Field Trials and Performance Evaluation},
author = {Rusheng Zhang and Frank Schmutz and Kyle Gerard and Aurélien Pomini and Louis Basseto and Ben Hassen Sami and Adhishree Jaiprakash and Inci Ozgunes and Abdulrahman Alarifi and Hussam Aldossary and Issa Alkurtass and Omar Talabay and Areej Almohanna and Shaha Alotaibi and Mansour AlSaleh and Ahmed Biyabani and Khaled Almohanna and Ozan Tonguz},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1807.01388},
year = {2018}
}
Comments
5 pages, 9 figures, submitted to the 44th Annual Conference of the IEEE Industrial Electronics Society (IECON 2018), special session of Connected-and-Automated Vehicle Integration, Safety, and Environment Design, on June 30, 2018