Andreas Riener, Kashif Zia, Alois Ferscha, Cristina Beltran Ruiz, Juan Jesus Minguez Rubio,
"AmI technology helps to sustain speed while merging – A data driven simulation study on Madrid motorway ring M30"
, in IEEE CS Press: 14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2010), Fairfax, VA USA, 10-2010
Original Titel:
AmI technology helps to sustain speed while merging – A data driven simulation study on Madrid motorway ring M30
Sprache des Titels:
Englisch
Original Buchtitel:
14th IEEE/ACM International Symposium on Distributed Simulation and Real Time Applications (DS-RT 2010), Fairfax, VA USA
Original Kurzfassung:
A considerable increase in road traffic has provoked
a total change in the operating paradigms of vehicles,
shifting vehicle handling from “just steering” towards a complex
adaptation task. With the emergence of wireless communication
technology, vehicle operation can now incorporate for
the first time ever beside the local driver-vehicle interaction
also more significant information obtained from cars in the
surrounding. With this foundation it would be possible to build
collectively operating driver assistance systems, negotiating the
interests of all road participants in a certain area with the final
goal to improve global parameters such as road throughput
or traffic fluidity, also having an effect on the individual car
(driver), e. g. increased travel speed, less congestions, or a
reduced level of cognitive load.
The question addressed with this paper is whether or not the
vehicle speed can be sustained while merging onto a motorway,
leading to a more harmonious integration of the merging
cars into the flowing traffic on the main road. To achieve
this we propose the application of ambient intelligence (AmI)
technology operating on the collective behavior of all cars in
the periphery of the entrance ramp. To prove our hypothesis
we applied the AmI technology to a data driven, true to scale
simulation model of the Madrid motorway M30, one of the
most busiest roads in Spain. The comparison of simulation runs
with high volume of traffic showed that technology assistance
could help to increase road throughput and minimize the
variance of traffic flow, but on the other side demands solutions
for one of the bigger problems of data driven simulation –
missing or noisy data compromising simulation results.