Two field experiments have been carried out with a commercially available Adaptive Cruise Control system, one in an urban environment and one in the highway. The time-gap policy is mapped for the whole speed range. It is shown that while the system follows a constant time-gap policy for highway speeds, for lower, urban speeds, the time-gap increases as the speed decreases. A new time-gap policy is also provided by a recent UN regulation for level 3 Automated Lane Keeping Systems. The three different options are compared by drawing the density-flow diagram. They are further investigated for possible dynamic phenomena using microscopic traffic simulation. The results show that the observed time-gap policy can induce phenomena such as capacity drop and increase string instability. The time-gap policy coming from the regulation is producing stable but lower traffic flow.


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    Title :

    Traffic impacts of commercial Adaptive Cruise Control time-gap policy


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    Publication date :

    2021-06-16


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    3870504 byte




    Type of media :

    Conference paper


    Type of material :

    Electronic Resource


    Language :

    English




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