Research on energy-saving approach of multi-modal vehicles based on traffic signal control

Nowadays, as the city traffic situation becomes more and more complicated, and the people for energy-saving emission reduction initiatives, the existing signal control strategy can no longer meet the needs of modern society. At present, the idea of use Internet of Vehicles (IoV) to improve the control of traffic lights and to make the energy consumption of the vehicles as low as possible has attracted more and more attention. Therefore, the multimodal energy efficient traffic signal (MEETS) control algorithm is designed in this paper. The algorithm uses a dynamic programming method to formulate a strict schedule for each vehicle arriving at the crossroads to minimize the overall energy consumption of vehicles passing through the crossroads. At the end of the paper, the simulation results show that the MEETS can effectively improve traffic, reduce energy use as well as supporting multi-modal traffic.