Research Article

Safety Effects of Connected and Automated Vehicle-Based Variable Speed Limit Control near Freeway Bottlenecks considering Driver’s Heterogeneity

Table 1

Parameter settings of simulation experiments.

ParametersMeaningValue
HDVCAV

(m)Sight distance100100, (500, 900)
(m/s2)Desired deceleration22
(s)Perception reaction time10
(m)Average vehicle length55
(m/s2)Maximum acceleration11
(km/h)Desired speed120120
(m)Minimum gap distance at standstill00
(s)Safe time gap1.1–1.60.6, 0.7, 0.9, 1.1 (57%, 24%, 7%, 12%)
(s)Data aggregation interval3030
(s)Simulation time step0.10.1