A fuel efficient control strategy for connected vehicles in multiple lane urban roads
Advances in wireless communication allow enabling information exchange among connected vehicles, so that decision and control strategies can be improved with the aid of additional information within the vehicular system. In this paper, we present a fuel efficient control strategy for a group of connected vehicles passing several traffic lights in multiple lane urban roads. Signal Phase and Timing (SPAT) information, lane changing decision and model predictive control are exploited to reduce stopping at red lights and improve the fuel economy. The major contribution of this work is to enable connected vehicles lane changing in multiple lane roads. The simulation results indicate the group performance improvement for our proposed method.
2016 IEEE 55th Conference on Decision and Control (CDC)