Merging lanes—fairness through communication

The merging of two lanes is a common traffic scenario. In this paper the authors derive a formal model for the behavior of vehicles in this scenario. The authors discuss the question of how fairness of a merging process can be defined and introduce the notion of free-flow fairness. The authors first show how optimal fairness could be achieved if all vehicles were omniscient and willing to follow a given strategy. The authors then move to a more realistic setting, where only a subset of vehicles participates in the authors' merging scheme and where wireless communication is limited and unreliable. By means of analysis and simulation the authors show that a simple beacon-based approach yields very good fairness even if only 1% of the vehicles participate.

• Record URL:
  • https://doi.org/10.1016/j.vehcom.2014.05.005
• Record URL:
  • http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2214209614000229
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/issn/22142096
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Baselt, D
  • Knorr, F
  • Scheuermann, B
  • Schreckenberg, M
  • Mauve, M
• Publication Date: 2014-4

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 97-104
• Serial:
  • Vehicular Communications
  • Volume: 1
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 2214-2096
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/22142096/1/2

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Highway beacons; Merging traffic; Traffic flow; Traffic lanes; Traffic models; Vehicular ad hoc networks
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01553087
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Feb 11 2015 9:21AM