摘要
The introduction of automatic intersection management (AIM) promises higher traffic flows and air quality by increasing the effective capacity of the intersection. Unfortunately, automatic control is only possible in a fully autonomous environment without legacy vehicles and vulnerable road users like cyclists and pedestrians. In this paper we introduce hybrid intersection management: a concept which makes it possible to gain the benefits from autonomous vehicles in the situation with mixed traffic. A new message protocol, the individual Space & Time message (iSPaT), is introduced to effectively send instructions to autonomous vehicles. The iSPaT message is also used to guide autonomous vehicles safely over the intersection in a “woven” manner. The development of hybrid intersection management can be started today, and shifts towards automatic control when the amount of autonomous vehicles increases.
