MULTISM: A model for simulating vehicular traffic on multi-lane arterial roads
Mathematics and Computers in Simulation
Simulation of Car-to-Car Messaging: Analyzing the Impact on Road Traffic
MASCOTS '05 Proceedings of the 13th IEEE International Symposium on Modeling, Analysis, and Simulation of Computer and Telecommunication Systems
The Impact of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control on Traffic-Flow Characteristics
IEEE Transactions on Intelligent Transportation Systems
VSSA: a service-oriented vehicular social-networking platform for transportation efficiency
Proceedings of the second ACM international symposium on Design and analysis of intelligent vehicular networks and applications
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There are several promising applications for car-to-x communication that aim at the improvement of traffic efficiency. With the increasing maturity of car-to-x communication systems, insights into the impacts of these applications on vehicular traffic are required. In this paper, we present a simulation study of traffic efficiency improvements that can be obtained by the utilization of a merging assistance application ahead of a freeway lane drop. Our investigations are based on the traffic simulation tool AIMSUN. We connect the traffic simulator with a simulation model that implements the merging assistance application as well as the message exchange between vehicles and a roadside unit. Simulation results show significant traffic efficiency improvements indicated by travel time reductions of up to 30% in dense traffic under ideal conditions.