Automated vehicles for highway operations (automated highway systems)
- 1 February 2005
- journal article
- Published by SAGE Publications in Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part I: Journal of Systems and Control Engineering
- Vol. 219 (1), 53-75
- https://doi.org/10.1243/095440705x9407
Abstract
Considerable research effort has been devoted within the past 15 years to automating the driving of highway vehicles in order to improve their safety and efficiency of operation and to help to reduce traffic congestion. Although the highway environment is in some ways more structured than other environments in which automated vehicles have been proposed to operate, the density and complexity of road traffic still make the sensing and control problems challenging. Because highway vehicles are not ‘unmanned’ but are expected to carry passengers and to coexist with other passenger-carrying vehicles, the reliability and safety considerations in the design of their control systems are much more important than they are for vehicles that are truly unmanned. This paper reviews the progress that has been made in recent research on highway vehicle automation and indicates the important research challenges that still need to be addressed before highway automation can become an everyday reality.This publication has 48 references indexed in Scilit:
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