A Review of Communication, Driver Characteristics, and Controls Aspects of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC)

Cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) systems have the potential to increase traffic throughput by allowing smaller headway between vehicles and moving vehicles safely in a platoon at a harmonized speed. CACC systems have been attracting significant attention from both academia and industry since connectivity between vehicles will become mandatory for new vehicles in the USA in the near future. In this paper, the authors review three basic and important aspects of CACC systems: communications, driver characteristics, and controls to identify the most challenging issues for their real-world deployment. Different routing protocols that support the data communication requirements between vehicles in the CACC platoon are reviewed. Promising and suitable protocols are identified. Driver characteristics related issues, such as how to keep drivers engaged in driving tasks during CACC operations, are discussed. To achieve mass acceptance, the control design needs to depict real-world traffic variability such as communication effects, driver behavior, and traffic composition. Thus, this paper also discusses the issues that existing CACC control modules face when considering close to ideal driving conditions.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2015.2483063
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/41297384
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Abstract reprinted with permission of IEEE.
• Authors:
  • Yan, Li
  • Wang, Xujie
  • Wang, Yue
  • Shen, Haiying
  • Chowdhury, Mashrur
  • Yu, Lei
  • Qiu, Chenxi
  • Soundararaj, Vivekgautham
• Publication Date: 2016-2

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 491-509
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Volume: 17
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE)
  • ISSN: 1524-9050
  • Serial URL: http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/RecentIssue.jsp?punumber=6979

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced driver information systems; Autonomous intelligent cruise control; Distraction; Driver vehicle interfaces; Drivers; Literature reviews; Vehicular ad hoc networks
• Subject Areas: Highways; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01594875
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TLIB, TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 30 2016 9:48AM