Traffic control and intelligent vehicle highway systems: a survey

Abstract

Traffic congestion in highway networks is one of the main issues to be addressed by today's traffic management schemes.Automation combined with the increasing market penetration of on-line communication, navigation, and advanced driver assistance systems will ultimately result in intelligent vehicle highway systems (IVHS) that distribute intelligence between roadside infrastructure and vehicles and that -in particular on the longer term -are one of the most promising solutions to the traffic congestion problem.In this paper, we present a survey on traffic management and control frameworks for IVHS.First, we give a short overview of the main currently used traffic control methods for freeways.Next, we discuss IVHS-based traffic control measures.Then, various traffic management architectures for IVHS such as PATH, Dolphin, Auto21 CDS, etc. are discussed and a comparison of the various frameworks is presented.Finally, we sketch how existing traffic control methodologies could fit in an IVHS-based traffic control set-up.communication