Optimization strategy for connected automated vehicles to reduce energy consumption on freeway in rainy weather

Yanyan Qin, Tengfei Xiao and Hua Wang

Energy, 2024, vol. 296, issue C

Abstract: Energy consumption on freeway significantly contributes to environmental pollution. Rainy weather, as a common adverse condition, will exert a negative impact on car-following behavior of vehicles on freeway and further affect their energy consumption. The emergence of connected automated vehicles (CAVs) has created an opportunity to mitigate these impacts. This paper aims to propose an optimization strategy for CAVs that can reduce energy consumption during car-following behavior on freeway under different rainy weather conditions. To begin with, a calibrated car-following model for regular vehicles (RVs) on freeway in rainy weather was used to derive an optimization strategy for CAVs that have vehicle-to-vehicle communication capability to stabilize traffic flow with smoothed speed fluctuations. The proposed optimization strategy for CAVs was then subjected to simulation experiments to validate its effectiveness. Results indicate that energy consumption on freeway in rainy weather is closely linked to speed fluctuations. Frequent speed fluctuations during car-following behavior could cause more energy consumption. The proposed optimization strategy for CAVs is capable of reducing energy consumption in rainy weather by smoothing speed fluctuations. CAVs equipped with this optimization strategy shows an energy-saving of 34.69%–61.11% compared to RVs under various rainy weather conditions.

Keywords: Energy consumption; Optimization strategy; Connected automated vehicles; Rainy weather (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2024
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DOI: 10.1016/j.energy.2024.131204

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