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Fuel Consumption and Emissions Analysis of a Connected Automated Vehicle Platoon in Unstable Traffic

  • Beihang University
  • Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute

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Abstract

Traffic is becoming a significant source of air pollution for the local and global environment. The current study aims to design novel vehicle control strategies, such as adaptive cruise control (ACC) and cooperative ACC (CACC), to reduce fuel consumption and transportation emissions. Unlike the current study, this research explores how driving behavior could decrease fuel consumption and emissions for a given vehicle control strategy. Our previous study found that the resonance frequency could amplify the vibration amplitude. This study presents the impact of the resonance frequency of a vehicle platoon on fuel consumption and emissions. For better illustration, this study introduces a realistic CACC model validated by the PATH program to characterize the CAV’s driving behavior and fuel consumption and transportation emission model, i.e., the VT-Micro model, to describe the platoon’s fuel consumption and emissions. Numerical analysis results show that a periodic perturbation with the resonance frequency will amplify fuel consumption and pollutant emissions. These findings emphasize that preventing CAV traffic oscillations from resonance frequency could help in reaping the expected benefits of CAVs in environmental protection and improving transportation sustainability.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationProceedings of 2023 7th Chinese Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control - Swarm Decision and Planning Technologies
EditorsXiaoduo Li, Xun Song, Yingjiang Zhou
PublisherSpringer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH
Pages455-464
Number of pages10
ISBN (Print)9789819733354
DOIs
StatePublished - 2024
Event7th Chinese Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control, CCSICC 2023 - Nanjing, China
Duration: 24 Nov 202327 Nov 2023

Publication series

NameLecture Notes in Electrical Engineering
Volume1207 LNEE
ISSN (Print)1876-1100
ISSN (Electronic)1876-1119

Conference

Conference7th Chinese Conference on Swarm Intelligence and Cooperative Control, CCSICC 2023
Country/TerritoryChina
CityNanjing
Period24/11/2327/11/23

Keywords

  • CACC model
  • Connected automated vehicles
  • Damping
  • Mechanical vibration theory
  • Traffic oscillation

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