A Cooperative Freeway Merge Assistance System Using Connected Vehicles

Conference · Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 EST 2018

OSTI ID:1424428

Ahmed, Md Salman ^[1]; Hoque, Mohammad A. ^[1]; Rios Torres, Jackeline  ^[2]; Khattak, Asad ^[3]

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1. East Tennessee State University (ETSU), Johnson City
2. ORNL
3. University of Tennessee, Knoxville (UTK)

This paper describes a novel freeway merge assistance system utilizing V2X technology with the help of the DSRC protocol. The freeway merge assistance system uses an innovative three-way handshaking protocol and provides advisories to drivers to guide the merging sequence.

• Research Organization: Oak Ridge National Laboratory (ORNL), Oak Ridge, TN (United States)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC05-00OR22725
• OSTI ID: 1424428
• Resource Relation: Conference: 2018 TRB Annual Meeting - Washington D.C., District of Columbia, United States of America - 1/7/2018 5:00:00 AM-1/11/2018 5:00:00 AM
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English