Parsimonious shooting heuristic for trajectory control of connected automated traffic part I: Theoretical analysis with generalized time geography

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This paper studies a problem of controlling trajectories of a platoon of vehicles on a highway segment with connected and automated vehicles.

• This problem is complex because each vehicle trajectory is an infinite-dimensional object and neighboring trajectories have complex interactions (e.g., car-following behavior).
• A parsimonious shooting heuristic algorithm is proposed to construct vehicle trajectories on a signalized highway segment that comply with boundary conditions for vehicle arrivals, vehicle mechanical limits, traffic lights and vehicle following safety.
• This algorithm breaks each vehicle trajectory into a few sections and each is analytically solvable.