Assessing the Potential Impacts of Connected Vehicles: Mobility, Environmental, and Safety Perspectives
The connected vehicle is a rapidly emerging paradigm aimed at deploying and developing a fully connected transportation system that enables data exchange among vehicles, infrastructure, and mobile devices to improve mobility, enhance safety, and reduce the adverse environmental impacts of the transportation systems. This study focuses on micromodeling and quantitatively assessing the potential impacts of the connected vehicle (CV) on mobility, safety, and the environment. To assess the benefits of CVs, a modeling framework is developed based on traffic microsimulation for a real network located in the city of Toronto, Canada, to mimic communication between enabled vehicles. In this study, the authors examine the effects of providing real-time routing guidance and advisory warning messages to CVs. In addition, to take into account the rerouting in nonconnected vehicles (non-CVs) in response to varying sources of information such as apps, global positioning systems (GPS), variable message signs (VMS), or simply seeing the traffic back up, the impact of fraction of non-CV vehicles was also considered and evaluated. Therefore, vehicles in this model are divided into 25 uninformed/unfamiliar not connected (non-CV), 7 informed/familiar but not connected (non-CV) that get updates infrequently every 5 minutes or so (non-CV), and 34 connected vehicles that receive information more frequently (CV). The results demonstrate the potential of connected vehicles to improve mobility, enhance safety, and reduce greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) at the network-wide level. The results also show quantitatively how the market penetration of connected vehicles proportionally affects the performance of the traffic network. While the presented results are pertinent to the specifics of the road network modeled and cannot be generalized, the quantitative figures provide researchers and practitioners with ideas of what to expect from vehicle connectivity concerning mobility, safety, and environmental improvements.
- Record URL:
-
Availability:
- Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/15472450
-
Supplemental Notes:
- Abstract reprinted with permission of Taylor & Francis.
-
Authors:
- Olia, Arash
- Abdelgawad, Hossam
- Abdulhai, Baher
- Razavi, Saiedeh N
- Publication Date: 2016-5
Language
- English
Media Info
- Media Type: Web
- Features: References;
- Pagination: pp 229-243
-
Serial:
- Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems
- Volume: 20
- Issue Number: 3
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis
- ISSN: 1547-2450
- EISSN: 1547-2442
- Serial URL: http://www.tandfonline.com/loi/gits20
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Environmental impacts; Greenhouse gases; Highway safety; Intelligent vehicles; Mobile communication systems; Mobility
- Subject Areas: Environment; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01599925
- Record Type: Publication
- Files: TRIS
- Created Date: May 23 2016 9:49AM