Cooperative highway traffic: multi-agent modeling and robustness assessment to local perturbations

As cooperative systems, a.k.a. connected vehicles, enable the communication and exchange of information between vehicles and infrastructure, it is expected that their communication capabilities can lead to a better active traffic management on urban motorways. In such a context, technological constraints must be the basis for any management strategy. If it has been analytically proven that communication can help stabilize traffic flow at a microscopic level, it is interesting to evaluate realistic communication strategies taking into consideration multiple perturbations such as sensors faults or driver cooperation. In this paper, a three-layer multi-agent framework is used to model and control the homogenization of traffic flow. The physical layer coordinates the vehicles dynamics based on a cooperative car following model. This layer includes cooperation derived from the communication and trust layers that respectively manage information and its reliability. Simulation results highlight the positive impacts of communication and control on traffic flow stability.

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Source 92nd Transportation Research Board Meeting
Author Monteil, Julien, Billot, Romain, Sau, Jacques, Armetta, Frédéric, Hassas, Salima, El Faouzi, Nour Eddin
Maintainer CCSD
Last Updated May 9, 2026, 12:05 (UTC)
Created May 9, 2026, 12:05 (UTC)
Identifier hal-00869443
Language en
contributor Laboratoire d'Ingénierie Circulation Transport (LICIT UMR TE) ; Institut Français des Sciences et Technologies des Transports, de l'Aménagement et des Réseaux (IFSTTAR)-École Nationale des Travaux Publics de l'État (ENTPE)-Université de Lyon
coverage inconnue, France
creator Monteil, Julien
date 2013-01-13T00:00:00
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