The first section of this report addresses the issues of vehicle control during transition maneuvers in Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems. Transition maneuvers include automatic lane change of vehicles and merging and splitting of platoons of vehicles in the automated highway system. The...

This report studies the technical deployment of an Automated Highway System (AHS), and specifically, the interface between an AHS and Urban Arteries (UA). The report focuses on four tasks: 1) specify physical arrangement, operational procedures for entry/exit, 2) conceptualize functions of...

This paper presents a theory for automated traffic flow, based on abstraction of vehicle activities such as entry, exit and cruising, derived from a vehicle's automatic control laws. The theory formulates TMC traffic plans as the specification of the activities and speed of vehicles, and the...

This paper concerns the benefits from vehicle route guidance in urban networks. We suppose that routes can be altered in such a way as to achieve system optimal assignment. Benefits are measured by the savings in total travel time when comparing this assignment with the user equilibrium, which...