Connected autonomous intelligent agents (AIA) can improve intersection performance and resilience for the transportation infrastructure. An agent is an autonomous decision maker whose decision making is determined internally but may be altered by interactions with the environment or with other agents. Implementing agent-based modeling techniques to advance communication for more appropriate decision making can benefit autonomous vehicle technology.
This research examines vehicle to vehicle (V2V), vehicle to infrastructure (V2I), and infrastructure to infrastructure (I2I) communication strategies that use gathered data to ensure these agents make appropriate decisions under operational circumstances. These vehicles and signals are modeled to adapt to the common traffic flow of the intersection to ultimately find an traffic flow that will minimizes average vehicle transit time to improve intersection efficiency. By considering each light and vehicle as an agent and providing for communication between agents, additional decision-making data can be transmitted. Improving agent based I2I communication and decision making will provide performance benefits to traffic flow capacities.
