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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 30, 2026
Filed:
Jan. 20, 2022
Mitsubishi Electric Corporation, Tokyo, JP;
Arnaud Bouttier, Rennes, FR;
MITSUBISHI ELECTRIC CORPORATION, Tokyo, JP;
Abstract
A method for managing traffic of connected and automated vehicles, CAV, at a road intersection with N branches is provided. The method includes, for each branch i of M branches among the N branches, with iϵ[1;M], M equal or greater than 2 and smaller or equal to N: obtaining by a CAV data related to vehicles in the i-th branch, determining by said CAV a i-th value relative to a level of priority of the i-th branch, comparing the i-th values, and according to the result of the comparison, instructing a first CAV in one p-th branch among the M branches to enter a crossing area, CA, of the road intersection at an entering time.