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Review on Intelligent Active Control Technology for Safety Distance of Heavy-duty Vehicles

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DOI: 10.23977/jemm.2026.110112 | Downloads: 0 | Views: 15

Author(s)

Yu Wanmiao 1, Jia Chunfu 1, Ma Tiewei 2, Zhang Luxue 3

Affiliation(s)

1 Jilin Traffic Planning and Design Institute, Changchun, 130021, Jilin, China
2 Jilin Provincial High Class Highway Construction Bureau, Changchun, 130033, Jilin, China
3 Beijing GOTEC ITS Technology Co., Ltd., Beijing, 100088, China

Corresponding Author

Yu Wanmiao

ABSTRACT

Road freight plays a key role in national economy, but heavy vehicles have high risk of rear-end collision accident on complex road sections due to their inherent physical characteristics, and traditional static safety distance standards are difficult to cope with dynamic and complex driving environment. Firstly, the paper analyzes the different demands of safe distance on five typical risk road sections such as curve, long downhill, ramp, tunnel and special weather, and then classifies the existing safe distance models into three paradigms based on vehicle kinematics, driving behavior mechanism and data driving, and compares their advantages and disadvantages and applicability. On this basis, an intelligent active management and control technology system covering perception layer, decision layer and execution layer is constructed, and it is pointed out that the research is undergoing a fundamental transformation from single point technology breakthrough to "vehicle-road-cloud-edge" ecological synergy. Finally, the limitations of the current research on the disjunction between the model and the complex scene, and the lack of understanding of human-vehicle-road interaction mechanism are analyzed, and the future research directions are prospected, including the construction of special dynamic vehicle distance model, the development of driver digital twins, and the breakthrough of key technologies of formation control, in order to provide systematic theoretical reference and technical guidance for improving the driving safety of heavy vehicles.

KEYWORDS

Heavy-duty vehicles; safe distance between vehicles; intelligent active management and control; car-following model; vehicle-road coordination

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Yu Wanmiao, Jia Chunfu, Ma Tiewei, Zhang Luxue. Review on Intelligent Active Control Technology for Safety Distance of Heavy-duty Vehicles. Journal of Engineering Mechanics and Machinery (2026). Vol. 11, No. 1, 123-132. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.23977/jemm.2026.110112.

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