Submitted by Jonathan Sprinkle on May 13th, 2024
Submitted by Jonathan Sprinkle on May 13th, 2024
Submitted by Jonathan Sprinkle on May 13th, 2024
Submitted by Jonathan Sprinkle on May 13th, 2024
Submitted by Jonathan Sprinkle on May 13th, 2024
Submitted by Jonathan Sprinkle on May 13th, 2024
Submitted by Jonathan Sprinkle on May 12th, 2024
The Congestion Impacts Reduction via CAV-in-the-loop Lagrangian Energy Smoothing (CIRCLES) project aims to reduce instabilities in traffic flow, called "phantom jams," that cause congestion and wasted energy. If you have ever encountered a temporary traffic jam for no apparent reason, this might have been a phantom jam that occurred naturally because of human driving behavior.
Prior work on closed-course testing demonstrated that phantom jams can be reduced using autonomous vehicle technologies and specially-designed algorithms. The CIRCLES project seeks to extend this technology to real-world traffic, where reducing these negative traffic effects could provide ≥10% energy savings.
In 2022, the CIRCLES team conducted the largest open-road traffic experiment of CAVs designed for wave smoothing, in Nashville, TN. The resulting experiment produced news articles with an audience reach of over 1 Billion.
Please visit the CIRCLES website for a comprehensive description of the project, its scope and scale, and resulting data, videos and other products.
Submitted by Jonathan Sprinkle on May 12th, 2024