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Synergizing Roadway Infrastructure Investment with Digital Infrastructure for Infrastructure-Based Connected Vehicle Applications: Review of Current Status and Future Directions
The file attached to this record is the author's final peer reviewed version. The Publisher's final version can be found by following the DOI link.The safety, mobility, environmental and economic benefits of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are potentially dramatic. However, realization of these benefits largely hinges on the timely upgrading of the existing transportation system. CAVs must be enabled to send and receive data to and from other vehicles and drivers (V2V communication) and to and from infrastructure (V2I communication). Further, infrastructure and the transportation agencies that manage it must be able to collect, process, distribute and archive these data quickly, reliably, and securely. This paper focuses on current digital roadway infrastructure initiatives and highlights the importance of including digital infrastructure investment alongside more traditional infrastructure investment to keep up with the auto industry's push towards this real time communication and data processing capability. Agencies responsible for transportation infrastructure construction and management must collaborate, establishing national and international platforms to guide the planning, deployment and management of digital infrastructure in their jurisdictions. This will help create standardized interoperable national and international systems so that CAV technology is not deployed in a haphazard and uncoordinated manner
Proposition of Augmenting V2X Roadside Unit to Enhance Cooperative Awareness of Heterogeneously Connected Road Users
Intelligent transportation and autonomous mobility solutions rely on
cooperative awareness developed by exchanging proximity and mobility data among
road users. To maintain pervasive awareness on roads, all vehicles and
vulnerable road users must be identified, either cooperatively, where road
users equipped with wireless capabilities of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) radios
can communicate with one another, or passively, where users without V2X
capabilities are detected by means other than V2X communications. This
necessitates the establishment of a communications channel among all
V2X-enabled road users, regardless of whether their underlying V2X technology
is compatible or not. At the same time, for cooperative awareness to realize
its full potential, non-V2X-enabled road users must also be communicated with
where possible or, leastwise, be identified passively. However, the question is
whether current V2X technologies can provide such a welcoming heterogeneous
road environment for all parties, including varying V2X-enabled and
non-V2X-enabled road users? This paper investigates the roles of a
propositional concept named Augmenting V2X Roadside Unit (A-RSU) in enabling
heterogeneous vehicular networks to support and benefit from pervasive
cooperative awareness. To this end, this paper explores the efficacy of A-RSU
in establishing pervasive cooperative awareness and investigates the
capabilities of the available communication networks using secondary data. The
primary findings suggest that A-RSU is a viable solution for accommodating all
types of road users regardless of their V2X capabilities.Comment: 13 page
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Cooperative Eco-Driving at Signalized Intersections in a Partially Connected and Automated Vehicle Environment
Street Smart in 5G : Vehicular Applications, Communication, and Computing
Recent advances in information technology have revolutionized the automotive industry, paving the way for next-generation smart vehicular mobility. Specifically, vehicles, roadside units, and other road users can collaborate to deliver novel services and applications that leverage, for example, big vehicular data and machine learning. Relatedly, fifth-generation cellular networks (5G) are being developed and deployed for low-latency, high-reliability, and high bandwidth communications. While 5G adjacent technologies such as edge computing allow for data offloading and computation at the edge of the network thus ensuring even lower latency and context-awareness. Overall, these developments provide a rich ecosystem for the evolution of vehicular applications, communications, and computing. Therefore in this work, we aim at providing a comprehensive overview of the state of research on vehicular computing in the emerging age of 5G and big data. In particular, this paper highlights several vehicular applications, investigates their requirements, details the enabling communication technologies and computing paradigms, and studies data analytics pipelines and the integration of these enabling technologies in response to application requirements.Peer reviewe
Dense Moving Fog for Intelligent IoT: Key Challenges and Opportunities
As the ratification of 5G New Radio technology is being completed, enabling
network architectures are expected to undertake a matching effort. Conventional
cloud and edge computing paradigms may thus become insufficient in supporting
the increasingly stringent operating requirements of
\emph{intelligent~Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices} that can move unpredictably
and at high speeds. Complementing these, the concept of fog emerges to deploy
cooperative cloud-like functions in the immediate vicinity of various moving
devices, such as connected and autonomous vehicles, on the road and in the air.
Envisioning gradual evolution of these infrastructures toward the increasingly
denser geographical distribution of fog functionality, we in this work put
forward the vision of dense moving fog for intelligent IoT applications. To
this aim, we review the recent powerful enablers, outline the main challenges
and opportunities, and corroborate the performance benefits of collaborative
dense fog operation in a characteristic use case featuring a connected fleet of
autonomous vehicles.Comment: 7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. The work has been accepted for
publication in IEEE Communications Magazine, 2019. Copyright may be
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Reduced Fuel Emissions through Connected Vehicles and Truck Platooning
Vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication enable the sharing, in real time, of vehicular locations and speeds with other vehicles, traffic signals, and traffic control centers. This shared information can help traffic to better traverse intersections, road segments, and congested neighborhoods, thereby reducing travel times, increasing driver safety, generating data for traffic planning, and reducing vehicular pollution. This study, which focuses on vehicular pollution, used an analysis of data from NREL, BTS, and the EPA to determine that the widespread use of V2V-based truck platooning—the convoying of trucks in close proximity to one another so as to reduce air drag across the convoy—could eliminate 37.9 million metric tons of CO2 emissions between 2022 and 2026
A Survey on platoon-based vehicular cyber-physical systems
Vehicles on the road with some common interests can cooperatively form a platoon-based driving pattern, in which a vehicle follows another one and maintains a small and nearly constant distance to the preceding vehicle. It has been proved that, compared to driving individually, such a platoon-based driving pattern can significantly improve the road capacity and energy efficiency. Moreover, with the emerging vehicular adhoc network (VANET), the performance of platoon in terms of road capacity, safety and energy efficiency, etc., can be further improved. On the other hand, the physical dynamics of vehicles inside the platoon can also affect the performance of VANET. Such a complex system can be considered as a platoon-based vehicular cyber-physical system (VCPS), which has attracted significant attention recently. In this paper, we present a comprehensive survey on platoon-based VCPS. We first review the related work of platoon-based VCPS. We then introduce two elementary techniques involved in platoon-based VCPS: the vehicular networking architecture and standards, and traffic dynamics, respectively. We further discuss the fundamental issues in platoon-based VCPS, including vehicle platooning/clustering, cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC), platoon-based vehicular communications, etc., and all of which are characterized by the tight coupled relationship between traffic dynamics and VANET behaviors. Since system verification is critical to VCPS development, we also give an overview of VCPS simulation tools. Finally, we share our view on some open issues that may lead to new research directions
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