Simulation to Evaluate Effectiveness of ITS Merging Assistance Service in Mixture Traffic Flow with Consideration of Transient Period

Abstract

    In this paper, evaluation of effectiveness of ITS assistance service in merging section from various measures of smoothness, safety and energy consumption using simulation environment which can reproduce mixture traffic flow is proposed. Especially, transient situations with various diffusion rates or submission rates are simulated and their difference of effectiveness is analyzed. In the transient period of ITS installation, it should be important such quantitative evaluation using simulation tools with various measures.