Overview and analysis of Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems from a motorway traffic management perspective

During the last decade, there has been an enormous interdisciplinary effort by the automobile industry and numerous research institutions worldwide towards the development, testing and employment of a variety of Vehicle Automation and Communication Systems (VACS) with the main aims to improve road safety and driver convenience. Some VACS, however, have a direct impact on road efficiency as well and could therefore be exploited to relieve road networks from the significant congestion problems and their negative consequences for travel times, safety, fuel consumption, the environment and the quality of life in general. In other words, some of the available VACS could also be used as novel or innovative sensors, actuators and tools towards a new era of traffic management. This paper provides an overview of proposed and available VACS and discusses their perspectives from the motorway traffic management point of view. Classifications of the different systems in this respect are also provided, while SWOT (Strengths–Weaknesses–Opportunities–Threats) analyses are used to identify specific exploitation ways. Current trends and future perspectives of VACS within a motorway traffic management context are finally summarised.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.tra.2015.03.015
• Record URL:
  http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0965856415000579
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  • Abstract reprinted with permission of Elsevier.
• Authors:
  • Diakaki, Christina
  • Papageorgiou, Markos
  • Papamichail, Ioannis
  • Nikolos, Ioannis
• Publication Date: 2015-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 147-165
• Serial:
  • Transportation Research Part A: Policy and Practice
  • Volume: 75
  • Issue Number: 0
  • Publisher: Elsevier
  • ISSN: 0965-8564
  • Serial URL: http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/journal/09658564

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Mobile communication systems; Performance; Quality of service; Vehicle to infrastructure communications
• Uncontrolled Terms: Cellular communications
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I90: Vehicles;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01561409
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 27 2015 9:49AM