Toward Mitigating Phantom Jam Using Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication

Traffic jams often occur without any obvious reasons such as traffic accidents, roadwork, or closed lanes. Under moderate to high traffic density, minor perturbations to traffic flow (e.g., a strong braking motion) are easily amplified into a wave of stop-and-go traffic. This is known as a phantom jam. In this paper, the authors aim to mitigate phantom jams leveraging the three-phase traffic theory and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. More specifically, an efficient phantom jam control protocol is proposed in which a fuzzy inference system is integrated with a V2V-based phantom jam detection algorithm to effectively capture the dynamics of traffic jams. Per-lane speed difference under traffic congestion is taken into account in the protocol design, so that a phantom jam is controlled separately for each lane, improving the performance of the proposed protocol. The authors implemented the protocol in the Jist/SWAN traffic simulator. Simulations with artificially generated traffic data and real-world traffic data collected from vehicle loop detectors on Interstate 880, California, USA, demonstrate that the authors' approach has by up to 9% and 4.9% smaller average travel times (at penetration rates of 10%) compared with a state-of-the-art approach, respectively.

• Record URL:
  https://doi.org/10.1109/TITS.2016.2605925
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/41297384
• Authors:
  • Won, Myounggyu
  • Park, Taejoon
  • Son, Sang H
• Publication Date: 2017-5

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1313-1324
• Serial:
  • IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
  • Volume: 18
  • Issue Number: 5
  • 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: Driver support systems; Fuzzy systems; Intelligent transportation systems; Traffic congestion; Traffic flow theory; Traffic simulation; Vehicle to vehicle communications; Wireless communication systems
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01637106
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TLIB, TRIS
• Created Date: May 4 2017 2:42PM