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Microsimulation Evaluation of the Potential Impacts of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication (V2V) in Disseminating Warning Information under High Incident Occurrence Conditions

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This paper focuses on assessing the benefits of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication in high incident cases resulting from extreme conditions, such as adverse weather conditions. V2V capabilities are simulated and tested through the use of two Paramics Applications Programming Interfaces (APIs). One API randomly creates incidents, and the API simulates the dissemination of V2V communication between individual V2V vehicles. The developed APIs are rigorously evaluated on an urban arterial network by comparing various scenarios with and without V2V. The results of all experiments demonstrate the overall effectiveness of V2V in improving safety and improving network travel time for high and moderate congestion level scenarios.

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Acknowledgments

The authors wish to express their thanks to Aaron Tang, Tiffany Veltman and Maurice Chow for developing the APIs as part of their fourth-year design project in electrical and computer engineering.

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  1. Department of Civil Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Lina Kattan & Saeid Saidi

  2. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Mahmood Mousavi & Behrouz Far

  3. Department of Electrical and Software Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Colin Harschnitz

  4. Department of Civil Engineering and the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Calgary, Calgary, Alberta, Canada

    Ahmad Radmanesh

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Kattan, L., Mousavi, M., Far, B. et al. Microsimulation Evaluation of the Potential Impacts of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication (V2V) in Disseminating Warning Information under High Incident Occurrence Conditions. Int. J. ITS Res. 10, 137–147 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13177-012-0050-8

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