ABSTRACT
With the rapid growth of wireless communication technologies, a large number of vehicles have formed a vehicular ad hoc network (VANET) and are cooperating with each other; thus, collision warning, intersection collision warning, and lane-change assistance can be improved. This chapter explores mathematically the cooperative movements of connected vehicles with wireless communications based on the fish school, and provides comprehensive evaluation of the influence of connected vehicles on safety and efficiency. Inspired by the aforementioned behaviors of fish school, one can draw an analogy between the connected vehicles and the fish school. A novel model is proposed to formulate the movement of connected vehicles by considering some real-world traffic situations where the constraints of the road and road obstacles exist. The chapter proposes a mobility model to describe connected vehicles and presents a stability analysis. Moving as a group on the same section of road each vehicle needs to maintain a different velocity and accelerate under the effects of forces.
