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Paper Review: AmI Technology Helps To Sustain Speed While Merging. A Data Driven Simulation Study on Madrid Motorway Ring M30. Objectives & Results. To determine whether or not vehicle speed can be sustained while merging onto a motorway, leading to more harmonious integration of merging cars
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Paper Review:AmI Technology Helps To Sustain Speed While Merging A Data Driven Simulation Study on Madrid Motorway Ring M30
Objectives & Results To determine whether or not vehicle speed can be sustained while merging onto a motorway, leading to more harmonious integration of merging cars Simulations showed that with Ambient Intelligence technology: • Increase in road throughput – 14% increase • Reduced variance in traffic flow
Outline • Motivation • Object of Study: The Madrid Motorway • Achievement of Traffic Merging • CA-Based Simulation • Conclusions
Outline: Motivation Merges on crowded motorways are a major influence on traffic fluidity and on road safety • Safety rules are disregarded • Related work: no general solution for merging • Research Hypothesis • To reduce merging delays Ambient Intelligence (AmI) technology was applied as an assistance system to help drivers make decisions
Outline: Motivation Cellular Automata (CA) based simulation model, operating data driven and continually evaluating lane change possibilities - Discrete model used in computability theory, mathematics, etc.
Outline: Object of Study – The Madrid Motorway M30 Motorway • Built in 1970 • 32.5km (20.2 miles) • 300,000 vehicles/day • 500,000 passengers/day
Outline: Object of Study – The Madrid Motorway Intelligent Transport System (ITS) controls the open air and buried tunneled roads 2km -segment used for real traffic flow analysis • Peak: 7,290 veh/hr • 87,800 veh/workday • Traffic shapes repeat each day • Lower & upper main road: 3 lanes
Outline: Achievement of Traffic Merging Real traffic flow analysis: • During high traffic situations, driver is highly focused on safely steering car from ramp onto main road • General optimization problem: • Drivers often keep rightmost lane instead of changing the lane early • Range of visibility: 100’s of meters (normal conditions), shortened in dense traffic/bad weather AmI Solution: • Vibro-tactile notification integrated into seat • Extending range of perception: • Inform driver of upcoming merging section • Overrule driver’s decision to keep on driving on current lane
Outline: CA-Based Simulation Data Driven Simulation • 14% increase in throughput Control Experiment • Up to 9% increase in throughput from lower to higher perception coupled with decreasing inter-car lane changing distance
Details Throughput vs inter-car gaps. Range of perception of driver has almost no effect on throughput for high density traffic For observed throughput of 5,270 vehicles/hour with average spacing of 50.94m, simulated throughput was 6,000veh/h with inter-car spacing of 52.20m
Details Throughput vs inter-car gaps for artificial traffic at a rate of 6,000veh/h Generated one of hour constant traffic for upper and lower at a rate of 3000 veh/h and 6000veh/h. Up to a 9% increase in throughput
Iner-Car Spacing=50m Details Iner-Car Spacing=25m Through put at logging point (L16) for perception range 100m over a 10-hour time period Iner-Car Spacing=10m