Abstract
Traffic jam on highway causes environmental pollution, economic and time losses. Moreover, car drivers are exhausted by traffic jam. To improve road traffic problems including traffic jam, a work on ITS (Intelligent Transport System) is now in progress. Inter-vehicular distance control is one of approaches in ITS: Vehicles make a platoon and are running with keeping appropriate inter- vehicular distance. In this paper, we propose inter-vehicular distance control considering path tracking error. By considering path tracking error, we can calculate appropriate reference velocity which keeps inter-vehicular distance correctly. To show effectiveness of proposed method, we conducted two simulations: one with consideration of path tracking error and one without consideration.
