Abstract:

Due to the continuous development of connected and automated vehicles, there will be a mixed traffic flow in which intelligent networked vehicles and manual driving vehicles coexist in the future. Therefore, the study of mixed traffic on the road can effectively solve traffic congestion and other problems, so it has certain practical significance. In order to explore the relationship between the flow, density and speed of this type of mixed traffic flow, this paper established a fundamental diagram model of the mixed traffic flow in an autonomous driving environment based on the comprehensive consideration of the degradation of intelligent networked vehicles and the delay between vehicles. First, it determined the types of vehicles in the traffic flow and the proportion of different types of vehicle, and considered the vehicle functional degradation when connected intelligent vehicles follow artificial vehicles. Then, the delay time of each type of three vehicles was determined and the following model of each vehicle was improved. On this basis, considering both the vehicle delay and the vehicle function degradation, the fundamental diagram model of traffic flow balance was derived, and the sensitivity analysis of free flow speed parameter in the model was carried out. The research result shows that connected and automated vehicles have a positive impact on the maximum flow and optimal density of mixed traffic flows, while vehicle delays have a negative impact; the free flow speed has a positive impact on the maximum flow and a negative impact on the optimal density of mixed traffic flow. The SUMO simulation results show that the simulated flow-density distribution points in different scenarios conform to the theoretical curve, which verifies the accuracy of the theoretical model in the paper.

Key words: connected and automated vehicle, mixed traffic flow, fundamental diagram model, vehicle function degradation, vehicle time delay