Application
#1:
CACC
CACC
•Cooperative adaptive
cruise control
•Problem
Addressed:
–Significantly improve
throughput by increasing capacity and efficiency, and increase safety by
minimizing the number of interactions between vehicles
•Description
–A traffic manager sets a
gap policy to form or break-up platoons of vehicles
–Speeds are automatically
adjusted by the vehicle based on communications from the traffic
management center
–Ad hoc or managed platoons of
vehicles moving on the facility
–Management of gaps,
flows and arrival rates
–Systematically accounts
for differing vehicle weight and performance
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