Presentation 2021-05-27
Performance evaluation of the lane change control using inter-vehicle communication during the time of congestion in a highway sag section
Yusei Kage, Hiroaki Morino,
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Abstract(in English) As a countermeasure against traffic congestion in sag areas, which accounts for a large portion of traffic congestion on expressways in Japan, it has been known that lane utilization balancing before the congested section is effective. In the past literature, we have studied a lane change control for lane utilization balancing to encourage autonomous vehicles in the lane with the highest traffic volume to change a lane with less traffic volume for balancing lane utilization, leading to mitigation of traffic congestion. Although it has been confirmed that this method improves the average speed of vehicles as a whole, it is not clear whether the average speed of both autonomous and manually-driven vehicles are is uniformly improved when viewed on an individual vehicle basis. Therefore, we compared and evaluated the average speed of each vehicle in various cases, such as whether they were driven automatically or manually, and whether they were running in or before the area of the congestion. Evaluation results show that there was no significant difference in the average speed of each vehicle between autonomous and manual-driven vehicles regardless they are running before and in the area of traffic congestion.
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Keyword(in English) Sag section of expressway / lane change control / autonomous vehicle
Paper # SeMI2021-4
Date of Issue 2021-05-20 (SeMI)

Conference Information
Committee SeMI / IPSJ-MBL / IPSJ-DPS / IPSJ-ITS
Conference Date 2021/5/27(2days)
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Chair Susumu Ishihara(Shizuoka Univ.)
Vice Chair Kazuya Monden(Hitachi) / Koji Yamamoto(Kyoto Univ.)
Secretary Kazuya Monden(Kyoto Univ.) / Koji Yamamoto(Cyber Univ.) / (Hitachi) / (Waseda Univ.)
Assistant Yuki Katsumata(NTT DOCOMO) / Yu Nakayama(Tokyo Univ. of Agri. and Tech.) / Akira Uchiyama(Osaka Univ.)

Paper Information
Registration To Technical Committee on Sensor Network and Mobile Intelligence / Special Interest Group on Mobile Computing and Pervasive Systems / Special Interest Group on Distributed Processing System / Special Interest Group on Intelligent Transport Systems and Smart Community
Language JPN
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Title (in English) Performance evaluation of the lane change control using inter-vehicle communication during the time of congestion in a highway sag section
Sub Title (in English)
Keyword(1) Sag section of expressway
Keyword(2) lane change control
Keyword(3) autonomous vehicle
1st Author's Name Yusei Kage
1st Author's Affiliation Shibaura Institute of Technology(SIT)
2nd Author's Name Hiroaki Morino
2nd Author's Affiliation Shibaura Institute of Technology(SIT)
Date 2021-05-27
Paper # SeMI2021-4
Volume (vol) vol.121
Number (no) SeMI-41
Page pp.pp.15-20(SeMI),
#Pages 6
Date of Issue 2021-05-20 (SeMI)