Effect of Pulse-and-Glide Strategy on Traffic Flow for a Platoon of Mixed Automated and Manually Driven Vehicles

The performance of Pulse-and-Glide (PnG) operation, which is a fuel optimization strategy based on traffic smoothness and fuel economy in a mixed traffic flow, is described in this article. The article shows how fuel consumption of ground vehicles is significantly affected by how they are driven. It is assumed that the mixed traffic flow will be on a flat single-lane highway with both driverless and manually driven vehicles. The driverless vehicles use the PnG strategy and the manually driven vehicles are simulated using the Intelligent Driver Models (IDM) to duplicate the average car-following behavior of human drivers. Three simulation scenarios are conducted in the study using a single car, a car section, and a car platoon. The results show that PnG strategy can significantly improve the fuel economy of individual vehicles.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1111/mice.12168
• Availability:
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• Authors:
  • Li, Shengbo Eben
  • Deng, Kun
  • Zheng, Yang
  • Peng, Huei
• Publication Date: 2015-11

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 892-905
• Serial:
  • Computer-Aided Civil and Infrastructure Engineering
  • Volume: 30
  • Issue Number: 11
  • Publisher: Blackwell Publishing
  • ISSN: 1093-9687
  • Serial URL: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/journal/10.1111/(ISSN)1467-8667

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Behavior; Car following; Drivers; Fuel consumption; Intelligent vehicles; Simulation; Traffic flow; Traffic platooning; Vehicle mix
• Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Vehicles and Equipment; I90: Vehicles;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01581147
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 24 2015 9:27AM