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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 19, 2024
Filed:
Mar. 24, 2021
Toyota Motor Engineering & Manufacturing North America, Inc., Plano, TX (US);
Mcmaster University, Hamilton, CA;
Baik Hoh, Mountain View, CA (US);
Hao Yang, Aliso Viejo, CA (US);
Seyhan Ucar, Mountain View, CA (US);
Kentaro Oguchi, Mountain View, CA (US);
TOYOTA MOTOR ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING NORTH AMERICA, INC., Plano, TX (US);
MCMASTER UNIVERSITY, , CA;
Abstract
A method of operating a traffic management system may comprise identifying a vehicle queue in a first lane of a road based on sensor data from one or more connected vehicles traveling along the road, determining driving instructions for a connected vehicle within a queue management region in a second lane, adjacent to the first lane, to create a gap in front of the connected vehicle for a vehicle in the vehicle queue to change lanes into the gap, and transmitting the driving instructions to the connected vehicle.