Title: Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) Algorithms under Mixed Traffic Environment

Speaker: Dr. Brian Park, Associate Professor, University of Virginia

Abstract: Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) technology has emerged and is expected to provide unprecedented improvements in mobility, safety and fuel efficiency. While many CAV applications have been proposed and evaluated in the field, such applications have significant limitations when interacting with human driven and/or unconnected vehicles. This presentation will discuss the development and evaluation of cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) algorithms under mixed traffic environment (i.e., including human driven and/or unconnected vehicles). The first part of the presentation will focus on the development of two quasi-CACC algorithms that can work with human driven and/or unconnected vehicles, and evaluations of such algorithms using NGSIM data and driving simulators. If time permits, the second part of the presentation will discuss the development of CAV simulation platform realizing vehicle dynamics model and assessing crash impacts using Madymo model.

Bio: Dr. B. Brian Park is an Associate Professor of Engineering Systems and Environment Department at the University of Virginia. Prior to joining the University of Virginia, he was a Research Fellow at the National Institute of Statistical Sciences and a Post-Doctoral Research Associate at the North Carolina State University. Dr. Park received the B.S. and the M.S. from the Hanyang University, Seoul, Korea, respectively, and the Ph.D. from the Texas A&M University. He is an Editor in Chief of the International Journal of Transportation, Associate Editor of the American Society of Civil Engineers Journal of Transportation Engineering, Journal of Intelligent Transportation systems, and the KSCE Journal of Civil Engineering, and an editorial board member of the International Journal of Sustainable Transportation. Furthermore, he is a member of TRB (a division of the National Academies) artificial intelligence and advanced computing committee. Dr. Park has published over 150 journal and conference papers in the area of transportation system operations and managements, and intelligent transportation system. His research interests include cyber-physical system for transportation, stochastic optimization, connected and automated vehicle safety assessment, microscopic simulation model application, and transportation system sustainability.