Advanced Freeway Merge Assistance: Harnessing the Potential of Connected Vehicles

This project will investigate advanced freeway merge assistance strategies that can potentially be enabled by harnessing the potential of Connected Vehicle communication technologies. Strategies will be developed and assessed using simulation models of traffic and communication systems that provide measures of mobility and safety impacts.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/research/tfhrc/projects/projectsdb/projectdetails.cfm?projectid=FHWA-PROJ-09-0066
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Program Information: Exploratory Advanced Research, Surface Transportation Research, Operations Research and Development

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $500000
• Sponsor Organizations:

  Federal Highway Administration

  Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center
  6300 Georgetown Pike
  McLean, VA  United States  22101
• Project Managers:

  Ferlis, Robert

• Performing Organizations:

  University of Virginia, Charlottesville

  P. O. Box 400195
  Charlottesville, VA  United States  22904
• Principal Investigators:

  Smith, Brian

• Start Date: 20091028
• Expected Completion Date: 0
• Actual Completion Date: 20120730

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Driver support systems; Freeways; Intelligent vehicles; Merging traffic; Simulation; Vehicle to vehicle communications
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01573544
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Department of Transportation
• Files: RIP, USDOT
• Created Date: Aug 24 2015 2:29PM