Microsimulation Evaluation of the Potential Impacts of Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication (V2V) in Disseminating Warning Information under High Incident Occurrence Conditions

This paper focuses on assessing the benefits of vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communication in high incident cases resulting from extreme conditions, such as adverse weather conditions. V2V capabilities are simulated and tested through the use of two Paramics Applications Programming Interfaces (APIs). One API randomly creates incidents, and the API simulates the dissemination of V2V communication between individual V2V vehicles. The developed APIs are rigorously evaluated on an urban arterial network by comparing various scenarios with and without V2V. The results of all experiments demonstrate the overall effectiveness of V2V in improving safety and improving network travel time for high and moderate congestion level scenarios.