String stability control strategy analysis of mixed traffic flow with the CIVs and NCVs

Abstract

With the development of vehicle-to-infrastructure cooperation system, a mixed traffic phenomenon with non-connected vehicles (NCVs) and connected and intelligent vehicles (CIVs) will exist over a long period of time. Therefore, the mixed traffic flow stability control has become a hot topic in the future. In order to improve the string stability in the complex and changeable internet of vehicles environment, it is necessary to propose the optimal control method of string stability in the mixed traffic flow. In this paper, NCV and CIV car-following modes are employed to propose a local platoon control method of the connected vehicle, which can achieve the purpose of optimizing the mixed traffic flow stability. Two types of local mixed platoon are considered when the effective communication distance with two vehicles in the vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication. Numerical simulations results show that our proposed string stability control strategy has the effectiveness in the improvement of the mixed traffic flow stability.