Stop-and-go traffic waves, a major form of freeway congestion, impose severe and persistent adverse impacts, including reduced traffic efficiency, increased safety risks, and elevated vehicle emissions. Among various freeway traffic management strategies, jam-absorption driving (JAD), in which a dedicated vehicle performs "slow-in" and "fast-out" maneuvers before being captured by a stop-and-go wave, has been proposed as a promising approach to suppressing the propagation of such waves. However, most existing JAD strategies remain impractical, primarily due to the lack of consideration of implementation vehicles and operational conditions. Inspired by real-world observations of police-car swerving behavior, this paper first introduces the Single-Vehicle Double-Detector Jam-Absorption Driving (SD-JAD) problem and then proposes a practical JAD strategy based on a definition of the JAD Triangle, transforming such behavior into a traffic control strategy capable of suppressing the propagation of an isolated stop-and-go wave. Five key parameters that significantly affect the proposed strategy, namely JAD speed, inflow traffic speed, wave width, wave speed, and in-wave speed, are identified and systematically analyzed. Using a SUMO-based simulation as an illustrative example, we further demonstrate how these parameters can be measured in practice using only two stationary roadside traffic detectors. The results show that the proposed JAD strategy successfully suppresses the propagation of a stop-and-go wave without triggering secondary waves. This paper is expected to take a significant step toward the practical implementation of JAD, advancing it from a theoretical concept to a feasible and deployable traffic management strategy.
翻译:走走停停交通波作为高速公路拥堵的主要形式,会持续产生包括通行效率降低、安全风险上升及车辆排放增加在内的严重负面影响。在现有高速公路交通管理策略中,堵车波吸收驾驶(JAD)方法通过专用车辆在被走走停停波捕获前执行"慢入快出"操作,已被视为抑制此类波传播的有效手段。然而,现有JAD策略因未充分考虑实施车辆与运行条件而普遍缺乏实用性。受真实世界中警车变道行为的启发,本文首先提出单车辆双检测器堵车波吸收驾驶(SD-JAD)问题,继而基于JAD三角定义将此类行为转化为可抑制孤立走走停停波传播的交通控制策略,由此构建实用化JAD方案。研究识别并系统分析了影响该策略的五个关键参数:JAD行驶速度、入流车速、波宽、波速及波内速度。通过基于SUMO的仿真算例,我们进一步展示了如何仅利用两个固定路侧交通检测器实现这些参数的实测。结果表明,所提JAD策略能在不触发二次波的前提下有效抑制走走停停波的传播。本文预期将推动JAD从理论概念向可部署的交通管理策略迈出关键实践步伐。