Traffic Flow Characteristics and Lane Use Strategies for Connected and Automated Vehicle in Mixed Traffic Conditions

Managed lanes, such as a dedicated lane for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), can provide not only technological accommodation but also desired market incentives for road users to adopt CAVs in the near future. In this paper, we investigate traffic flow characteristics with two configurations...

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Published in:arXiv.org 2021-02
Main Authors: Zhong, Zijia, Lee, Joyoung, Zhao, Liuhui
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Automation
Flow characteristics
Flow-density-speed relationships
Market penetration
Markets
Paths
Penetration
Traffic flow
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Summary:Managed lanes, such as a dedicated lane for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), can provide not only technological accommodation but also desired market incentives for road users to adopt CAVs in the near future. In this paper, we investigate traffic flow characteristics with two configurations of the managed lane across different market penetration rates and quantify the benefits from the perspectives of lane-level headway distribution, fuel consumption, communication density, and overall network performance. The results highlight the benefits of implementing managed lane strategies for CAVs: 1) a dedicated CAV lane significantly extends the stable region of the speed-flow diagram and yields a greater road capacity. As the result shows, the highest flow rate is 3,400 vehicles per hour per lane at 90% market penetration rate with one CAV lane; 2) the concentration of CAVs in one lane results in a narrower headway distribution (with smaller standard deviation) even with partial market penetration; 3) a dedicated CAV lane is also able to eliminate duel-bell-shape distribution that is caused by the heterogeneous traffic flow; and 4) a dedicated CAV lane creates a more consistent CAV density, which facilitates communication activity and decreases the probability of packet dropping.
ISSN:2331-8422
DOI:10.48550/arxiv.1907.00422