Near-Future Traffic Evaluation based Navigation for Automated Driving Vehicles

Abstract

Once vehicles start to be driven automatically, people expect the driving routing is automatically and optimally selected. Supposing all the vehicles are navigated by a single system in the future, the navigation system will be able to provide instructions to each vehicle based on the evaluated near-future traffic information while the current navigation system frequently updates the routing based on current traffic information. This paper proposes a navigation method that guides vehicles based on the evaluated near-future traffic information. Experimental results with actual city maps show the evaluated near-future traffic information is helpful to mitigate traffic jam and reduce driving time.