Lane Reservation for Highways (Position Paper)

Abstract

The only way to keep up with the ever-increasing number of cars on roads is through constant change and improvement in the transportation infrastructure. Construction of new roads is constrained by space and financial resources. Therefore, there is a need to devise ways to make optimal use of the existing infrastructure. In this position paper, we describe a lane reservation system for highways. The idea is to allow drivers to reserve a slot on a high-priority lane by paying a premium price. The high-priority lane would provide congestion free travel between any two points on the highway. We describe the design of our system, the challenges that need to be solved and the evaluation methodology we are planning to adopt.

An active approach to guaranteed arrival times based on traffic shaping

“…The same concept was advocated two years later by Ravi et al, in a more business-centric vision [13]. Their approach permits the coexistence of a slot-based system with existing driving patterns by providing a high-priority lane.…”

Time-bounded adaptation for automotive system software

“…To make our software adaptation discussions concrete, consider the following example from the domain of intelligent lane reservation system for managed highways. The goal of a managed highway is to reduce congestion, enable vehicles to maintain safe speeds, and allow emergency vehicles to arrive safely and faster at accidents [33]. One way to schedule and enforce vehicle QoS on a managed highway is to allow drivers to reserve lanes "slots."…”

Route-Based Vehicular Traffic Management for Wireless Access in Vehicular Environments

“…Current work in this area includes a system where users can reserve a slot on a highpriority highway lane by paying a premium [25], a vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANET) approach to traffic management in emergency and evacuation scenarios [26] traffic adaptive traffic lights for improved traffic co-ordination at intersections [27] and train -vehicle communications to manage their interactions at road and rail intersections [28]. These solutions micro manage distinct scenarios to provide some benefit but do not examine the effect on traffic in the entirety of the road network.…”