Evaluating Deployability of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) to Form High-Performance Vehicle Streams

Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) is an enhancement to commercially available automotive adaptive cruise control (ACC) systems that enables them to operate at shorter headways, increasing traffic flow capacity and providing a smoothing of traffic flow dynamics. Work under this project will evaluate the specific effects of CACC and its effect on traffic flow smoothness and capacity so that its benefits to traffic operations can be estimated and its deployment feasibility can be assessed.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Sponsor Organizations:

  California Department of Transportation

  Sacramento, CA  United States  95819
• Project Managers:

  Siddiqui, Asfand

• Performing Organizations:

  California PATH

  University of California
  Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4698

  University of California, Berkeley

  Traffic Safety Center
  140 Warren Hall
  Berkeley, CA  United States  94720-7360
• Principal Investigators:

  Shladover, Steven

• Start Date: 20151101
• Expected Completion Date: 20170630
• Actual Completion Date: 0

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Adaptive control; Cruise control; Headways; Highway capacity; Highway operations; Traffic flow
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01620493
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: California Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Jan 4 2017 10:52AM