@article{ref1,
title="Merging lanes--fairness through communication",
journal="Vehicular communications",
year="2014",
author="Baselt, D. and Knorr, F. and Scheuermann, B. and Schreckenberg, M. and Mauve, M.",
volume="1",
number="2",
pages="97-104",
abstract="The merging of two lanes is a common traffic scenario. In this paper we derive a formal model for the behavior of vehicles in this scenario. We discuss the question of how fairness of a merging process can be defined and introduce the notion of free-flow fairness. We first show how optimal fairness could be achieved if all vehicles were omniscient and willing to follow a given strategy. We then move to a more realistic setting, where only a subset of vehicles participates in our merging scheme and where wireless communication is limited and unreliable. By means of analysis and simulation we show that a simple beacon-based approach yields very good fairness even if only 1% of the vehicles participate.<p />",
language="en",
issn="2214-2096",
doi="10.1016/j.vehcom.2014.05.005",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.vehcom.2014.05.005"
}