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Development and Evaluation of a Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything Enabled Energy-Efficient Dynamic Routing Application
Mohamed M G Farag1,2, Hesham A Rakha1,3
1Center for Sustainable Mobility, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute, Blacksburg, VA 24061, USA.
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
|February 28, 2023
Summary
Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) communication enables energy-efficient dynamic routing, achieving significant fuel savings up to 16.6%. Performance remains reliable even with high traffic density and C-V2X communication constraints.
Area of Science:
- Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)
- Wireless Communication Technologies
- Traffic Engineering
Background:
- Cellular Vehicle-to-Everything (C-V2X) offers enhanced reliability for ITS applications.
- ITS application performance is sensitive to C-V2X communication quality and traffic conditions.
- Realistic simulation tools are needed to evaluate C-V2X benefits in dynamic routing.
Purpose of the Study:
- To develop and evaluate an energy-efficient dynamic routing application using C-V2X.
- To quantify the fuel savings and performance of C-V2X-enabled routing.
- To analyze the impact of traffic density and market penetration on application performance.
Main Methods:
- Developed a Connected Energy-Efficient Dynamic Routing (C-EEDR) application.
- Utilized the INTEGRATION simulator for integrated traffic and communication modeling.
- Evaluated performance under varying traffic demands and market penetration levels for C-V2X.
Main Results:
- C-EEDR achieved up to 16.6% fuel savings in ideal conditions and 14.7% with C-V2X at 50% market penetration.
- Fuel savings generally increase with market penetration, peaking at 50% for higher traffic demands.
- C-V2X constraints minimally impacted performance ( < 2.5% reduction) except at full demand with >25% penetration.
Conclusions:
- C-V2X technology effectively supports energy-efficient dynamic routing applications.
- The C-EEDR application demonstrates significant fuel savings across various scenarios.
- The study highlights the viability of C-V2X for ITS, even under challenging traffic conditions.
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