Research Article

Eco-Speed Harmonization with Partially Connected and Automated Traffic at an Isolated Intersection

Table 1

Notations and parameters.

NotationsExplanationUnit

The phantom density of the entire traffic flow (defined on page 8)pcu/km
The portion of vehicles under the influence of CAVs’ speed change at update time interval
The penetration rate of CAVs at update time interval
The number of phases
The average speed of all vehicles during the update time interval
The desired speed of CAVs during update time interval
The speed of the preceding vehicle
The speed of the following vehicle
The desired speed of CAVs in phase D during the update time interval
The road speed limit
The free-flow speed on the road segment
The dissipation speed of the rarefaction wave
The average speed change for CAVs in phase D during the update time interval
The maximum speed change in phase D during the update time interval
The minimum acceleration
The maximum acceleration
The density of the entire traffic flow during update time interval pcu/km
The phantom density of the entire traffic flow during update time interval (defined on page 9)pcu/km
The maximum phantom density at the intersectionpcu/km
The critical densitypcu/km
The jam densitypcu/km
The density of the current green phase at time interval pcu/km
The phantom density of phase D during the update time interval pcu/km
The buffer density for phase switching of the phase during update time interval (defined on page 9)pcu/km
The maximum flow at the critical densitypcu/h
The length of time that the average speed approaches CAVs’ desired speeds
The duration of the green interval during the update time interval s
The duration of the red interval during the update time interval s
The update time intervals
The average lane-changing durations
The travel time of vehicle on the control segment during time interval s
The clearance time to clear the vehicles passing the stop line at the end of the effective green times
The maximum duration of the green intervals
The minimum duration of the green intervals
The driver’s response times
The safe time headways
The start-up time of the last vehicle in the queues
The length of the control segmentm
The safe following distancem
The average headway distance of phase during time interval m
The safety buffer distance (defined on page 15)m
The average stopping distance of vehicles when queuingm
The average length of vehiclesm
The length of the controlled road segmentm
The number of queued vehicles in the current lanepcu
The number of vehicles on the controlled road segment during time interval pcu