Assessing the Potential Impacts of Connected Vehicles: Mobility, Environmental, and Safety Perspectives

Connected vehicle is a new paradigm aiming at developing and deploying a fully connected transportation system that enables data exchange among vehicles, infrastructure, and mobile devices to improve safety, mobility, and adverse environmental impacts of the transportation systems. The main goal of connected vehicle is to employ advanced information and communication technology (ICT) to mitigate traffic congestion, reduce incidents and potentially save the environment. The focus of this research is to assess the potential impacts of connected vehicle on mobility, safety and environment under non-recurrent congestion. To assess the benefits associated with connected vehicle, a micro-simulation traffic modeling framework was developed to model the interaction between vehicles and the infrastructure. This research quantifies the performance of such a system under different scenarios including different congestion levels and market penetration of connected vehicles subject to non-recurrent congestion, e.g., lane closure due an incident. The findings of this research indicate that connected vehicle has the potential to reduce travel time by 37%, reduce emissions by 30% and improve safety indicators by 45%. It also shows that market penetration of connected vehicle has the most significant impact on the performance of the traffic network.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • This paper was sponsored by TRB committee AHB30 Vehicle-Highway Automation.
• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

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• Authors:
  • Olia, Arash
  • Abdelgawad, Hossam
  • Abdulhai, Baher
  • Razavi, Saiedeh N
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 93rd Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC
  • Date: 2014-1-12 to 2014-1-16
• Date: 2014

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 22p
• Monograph Title: TRB 93rd Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Market penetration; Microsimulation; Mobile communication systems; Nonrecurrent congestion
• Identifier Terms: Paramics (Computer program)
• Geographic Terms: Toronto (Canada)
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I71: Traffic Theory; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01517578
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 14-2348
• Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
• Created Date: Mar 10 2014 9:24AM