Non-Signalized Intersection Network Management With Connected and Automated Vehicles

Road network control is challenging but critical in enhancing urban traffic. This paper proposes a management method for a road network with non-signalized intersections in the connected-vehicle environment, which coordinates connected and automated vehicles’ movements to make the non-signalized intersections conflict-free and efficient. Firstly, the proposed method projects vehicles in road networks into virtual platoons and builds the road-network-wide conflict-free geometric topology considering the vehicles’ conflicting relationships, which describes the geometry car-following relationship in virtual platoons. Then, a distributed linear controller is designed considering vehicle dynamics and communication topology to organize vehicles’ movements with the desired geometric topology. Finally, simulations are conducted to verify the proposed method with different traffic demands. Simulation results show the proposed method can significantly improve traffic efficiency, as well as traffic safety.