TY - GEN
T1 - A real time traffic light control scheme for reducing vehicles CO 2 emissions
AU - Li, Chunxiao
AU - Shimamoto, Shigeru
PY - 2011/6/7
Y1 - 2011/6/7
N2 - Global warming is a very serious problem which is becoming ever worse as the growth in the number of vehicles. This paper presents a real time traffic lights control scheme for reducing vehicles CO2 emissions based on the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) installed vehicles. Real time road conditions are obtained by wireless communication between the vehicles and the traffic lights based on the Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) technology. A decision tree classification algorithm is used to calculate optimal average waiting time, then to calculate the CO2 reductions. Compared with fixed-time control, simulation results indicate that more than 26.9% idling time CO2 emissions can be reduced when traffic flow is heavy, meanwhile vehicles have a 0.07 higher probability to pass the intersection by non-stop when traffic flow is light.
AB - Global warming is a very serious problem which is becoming ever worse as the growth in the number of vehicles. This paper presents a real time traffic lights control scheme for reducing vehicles CO2 emissions based on the Electronic Toll Collection (ETC) installed vehicles. Real time road conditions are obtained by wireless communication between the vehicles and the traffic lights based on the Dedicated Short Range Communication (DSRC) technology. A decision tree classification algorithm is used to calculate optimal average waiting time, then to calculate the CO2 reductions. Compared with fixed-time control, simulation results indicate that more than 26.9% idling time CO2 emissions can be reduced when traffic flow is heavy, meanwhile vehicles have a 0.07 higher probability to pass the intersection by non-stop when traffic flow is light.
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U2 - 10.1109/CCNC.2011.5766627
DO - 10.1109/CCNC.2011.5766627
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:79957883001
SN - 9781424487905
T3 - 2011 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC'2011
SP - 855
EP - 859
BT - 2011 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC'2011
T2 - 2011 IEEE Consumer Communications and Networking Conference, CCNC'2011
Y2 - 8 January 2011 through 11 January 2011
ER -