Webinar Series – MARCH – Traffic Control in the Era of Connected Automated Vehicles

Connected automated vehicles (CAVs) are expected to bring significant changes to how we travel and how traffic control devices operate. It is hypothesized that traffic lights may become obsolete and can be removed from intersections when all vehicles are both connected and automated. Some changes in traffic light systems may be necessary to accommodate the transition to a road system in which all vehicles are automated, and this means changing a technology that has been around for more than 100 years. In this talk, we introduce a new traffic control paradigm: using automated vehicles as mobile traffic controllers in cooperation with traffic signal controllers. In this concept, automated vehicles can create groups of human-driven vehicles, negotiate the right of way with each other, and navigate human-driven vehicles through the intersection during a new phase called the white phase. This happens only when enough automated vehicles are present in the intersection neighborhood, otherwise, typical green, yellow, and red phases are used. The simulation analysis has been very promising, and the new paradigm resulted in total delay reductions ranging from 7 percent to 96 percent when the automated vehicle market penetration rate increases from 10 percent up to 100 percent. This talk will also cover controlling CAVs in roundabouts and signal-free intersections. Speaker(s): Ali Hajbabaie, Agenda: Mechatronics and Automation for Revitalizing Critical infrastructure Health (MARCH) – Moving from Research to Application The IEEE Industrial Electronics Society Chapter of the Eastern North Carolina Section is hosting a multi-disciplinary webinar series titled, “Mechatronics and Automation for Revitalizing Critical infrastructure Health (MARCH) – Moving from Research to Application”. The speakers will be focusing on applied research and development in automation of sensors, actuators and intelligent decision making to improve, automate or smarten critical infrastructure systems such as power, communication, water, transportation, etc. for fault detection, diagnosis and mitigation, and interconnected collaborative operation. The goal of the webinar series is to build and expand connections between faculty and to foster new faculty-industry relationships to widen the applicability of their research to a larger industry/academic audience. This webinar also aims to broaden the research horizon and facilitate the integration of scientific aspects that were previously not considered as prominent factors for the operation of certain critical infrastructure. Attendees will have the opportunity to interact with the speakers and other attendees to build partnerships to participate in funding opportunities and collaborative interdisciplinary research. Raleigh, North Carolina, United States, Virtual: https://events.vtools.ieee.org/m/273806