Dynamic combination control of phase movement at signal intersection under the automated vehicle environment

With the continuous perfection of the technology of automated vehicles (AV), data exchange can be conveniently carried out between different vehicles and infrastructures, which makes it easier to collect different types of traffic parameters. Therefore, under AV environment, the vehicle status can be determined to obtain the periodic arrival rate of movements and a more efficient control strategy can be designed. The combination styles of phase movement (PM), an important factor of the signal control, will also become more complicated for intersection signal control. The current methods about the PM combination styles only considered two kinds of movement combination styles, and cannot get the extensive phase combination (PC) schemes in AV environment. This paper documents a new PM combination method by fractionalized movement compatibility relations, and uses discrete mathematics to calculate overall PC schemes. Then, a PM dynamic combination control method is proposed to optimize cyclically signal control. The analysis results of numerical tests showed that the average vehicle of the proposed method is reduced by 6.9 % and 14.5 % for 20 signal cycles, respectively, and the total throughput can be increased by 4.3% and 7.8%, respectively, compared with the dynamic timing control mode and the fixed control mode. Results show that the proposed method could significantly improve intersection control effectiveness.