Collaborative Eco-Routing Optimization for Continuous Traffic Flow in a Road Network

Abstract

Transportation is one of the critical factors that leads to energy crisis, and over the years there has been a lot of research around the improvement of vehicle energy efficiency. To effectively reduce the overall energy consumption of continuous traffic flow in a road network, a collaborative eco-routing optimization strategy is proposed. The strategy takes advantage of the differences in energy consumption characteristics among vehicles to coordinate the path allocation among vehicles. It improves the energy consumption of low-energy-consumption vehicles and reduces the energy consumption of high-energy-consumption vehicles more significantly, thus achieving the effect of improving the overall economy. The simulation results show that the proposed method can effectively improve the economy of all vehicles in the road network by up to 4.85% without additional time cost.