Paper Info
Title
Proactive Vehicle Re-routing Strategies for Congestion Avoidance
Abstract
Traffic congestion causes driver frustration and costs billions of dollars annually in lost time and fuel consumption. This paper presents three traffic re-routing strategies designed to be incorporated in a cost-effective and easily deployable vehicular traffic guidance system that reduces the effect of traffic congestions. This system collects real-time traffic data from vehicles and road-side sensors and computes proactive, individually-tailored re-routing guidance which is pushed to vehicles when signs of congestion are observed on their route. Extensive simulation results over two urban road networks show that all three strategies, namely multipath load balancing considering future vehicle positions (EBkSP), random multipath load balancing (RkSP), and dynamic shortest path (DSP), significantly decrease the average travel time. EBkSP is the best, with as much as 104% improvement compared to the "no re-routing" baseline. Additionally, it lowers with 34% the re-routing frequency compared to the other strategies. Finally, all strategies offer good improvements even when many drivers ignore the guidance or when the system adoption rate is relatively low.
Year
DOI
Venue
2012
10.1109/DCOSS.2012.29
DCOSS
Keywords
Field
DocType
proactive vehicle re-routing strategies,congestion avoidance,lost time,deployable vehicular traffic guidance,individually-tailored re-routing guidance,average travel time,re-routing frequency,traffic congestion,random multipath load balancing,multipath load balancing,system adoption rate,real-time traffic data,load balance,digital signal processing,global positioning system,resource allocation,fuel consumption,vehicle dynamics,dsp,real time systems,cost effectiveness
Multipath propagation,Load management,Shortest path problem,Computer science,Load balancing (computing),Computer network,Vehicle dynamics,Resource allocation,Guidance system,Traffic congestion
Conference
ISBN
Citations 
PageRank 
978-1-4673-1693-4
25
1.30
References 
Authors
6
5
Name
Order
Citations
PageRank
Juan (Susan) Pan1281.96
Mohammad A. Khan29911.58
Iulian Sandu Popa313514.29
Karine Zeitouni418333.69
Cristian Borcea580662.00