vehicle could not pass the intersection within
remaining green time. In Figures 8 and 11, a vehicle
without the eco-guidance starts to decelerate the
speed from the yellow signal and waits for the green
signal at the stop bar. The vehicle with the eco-
guidance passed the intersection without deceleration
within the extended green time. As the results, the
eco-guidance significantly reduced fuel consumption
by 40.16% compared with the driving without the
guidance as shown in Table 2 (α < 0.05). This is
because the vehicle could pass the intersection
without unnecessary deceleration. Moreover, the eco-
guidance also significantly reduced travel-time by
65.7% to pass the intersection with the eco-guidance
system (α<0.05).
Scenario 3 is the case the red time remains 12
seconds. In this scenario, the vehicle without the eco-
guidance approached to the stop-bar without the
information of remaining red time. As shown in
Figure 9, the vehicle decelerated to the stop-bar and
then accelerated when the traffic light changed to
green. The vehicle with the eco-guidance accelerated
from 0 to the recommended speed and maintained the
speed during the remaining red time. As shown in
Table 2, the eco-guidance reduced fuel consumption
and travel time when compared without case by
27.3% and 23.4% (α<0.05), respectively. This is
because the vehicle does not need to decelerate while
approaching to the intersection during it followed
eco-guidance information.
Because the participants complied the eco-
guidance very well, vehicle speeds with eco-guidance
and recommended speed by eco-guidance were
similar as shown in Figures 7, 8, and 9.
5 CONCLUSION AND FUTURE
WORK
In this paper, we proposed an eco-speed guidance
system using a hybrid of eco-driving and eco-signal
mechanisms. Our system guides the recommended
speed to a driver based on driver acceleration/
deceleration behavior, SPaT information, and the
remaining distance from the intersection. We
evaluated our proposed system with field tests using
communication devices (e.g., DSRC) in terms of fuel
consumption collected via CAN data and travel time.
As a result, we found that the proposed system
contributes to reduce fuel consumption and travel
time when a driver complied eco-guidance
information.
In the near future, we will further investigate the
effect of multiple vehicles on the eco-guidance and
the safety critical issues and improve our system to
cover the more complicated situation on the vehicles,
which partially follow the guidance, in field.
Moreover, we will consider multiple intersections in
a wide test region to test various scenarios and the
more accurate vehicle localization to calculate the
precise recommended speed to overcome GPS errors.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This research was supported in part by Global
Research Laboratory Program (2013K1A1A2A0207
8326) through NRF, and the DGIST Research and
Development Program (CPS Global Center) funded
by the Ministry of Science, ICT & Future Planning.
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