Strategic public transport design using autonomous vehicles and other new technologies

A Fielbaum - … Journal of Intelligent Transportation Systems Research, 2020 - Springer
We examine potential improvements to public transport systems induced by the autonomous
vehicle technology (AVT). To do so, we study a feeder system that operates on-demand in …

Connected automated vehicle control in single lane roundabouts

R Mohebifard, A Hajbabaie - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper introduces a methodology to optimize the trajectory of connected automated
vehicles (CAVs) in roundabouts using a two-dimensional point-mass model. We formulate …

Roads in transition: Integrated modeling of a manufacturer-traveler-infrastructure system in a mixed autonomous/human driving environment

M Noruzoliaee, B Zou, Y Liu - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2018 - Elsevier
This paper develops an integrated model to characterize the market penetration of
autonomous vehicles (AVs) in urban transportation networks. The model explicitly accounts …

Dynamic one-way traffic control in automated transportation systems

M Ebben, DJ van der Zee, M van der Heijden - … Research Part B …, 2004 - Elsevier
In a project on underground freight transportation using Automated Guided Vehicles, single
lanes for traffic in two directions are constructed to reduce infrastructure investment …

Dynamic programming-based multi-vehicle longitudinal trajectory optimization with simplified car following models

Y Wei, C Avcı, J Liu, B Belezamo, N Aydın, PT Li… - … research part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
Jointly optimizing multi-vehicle trajectories is a critical task in the next-generation
transportation system with autonomous and connected vehicles. Based on a space-time …

Dissipation of traffic jams using a single autonomous vehicle on a ring road

A Hayat, B Piccoli, S Truong - SIAM Journal on Applied Mathematics, 2023 - SIAM
In this article, we study the problem of stabilizing the traffic flow on a ring road to a uniform
steady-state using autonomous vehicles (AV). Traffic is represented at a microscopic level …

Distributed optimization and coordination algorithms for dynamic speed optimization of connected and autonomous vehicles in urban street networks

M Tajalli, A Hajbabaie - Transportation research part C: emerging …, 2018 - Elsevier
Dynamic speed harmonization has shown great potential to smoothen the flow of traffic and
reduce travel time in urban street networks. The existing methods, while providing great …

Optimal trajectory planning for autonomous driving integrating logical constraints: An MIQP perspective

X Qian, F Altché, P Bender, C Stiller… - 2016 IEEE 19th …, 2016 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper considers the problem of optimal trajectory generation for autonomous driving
under both continuous and logical constraints. Classical approaches based on continuous …

Enforcing optimal routing through dynamic avoidance maps

L Leclercq, A Ladino, C Becarie - Transportation Research Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
This paper presents a new concept for operating traffic management at a sizeable urban
scale. The overall principle is to partition the network into multiple regions, where traffic …

Dynamic system-optimal traffic assignment using a state space model

S Lafortune, R Sengupta, DE Kaufman… - … Research Part B …, 1993 - Elsevier
We propose a new mathematical formulation for the problem of optimal traffic assignment in
dynamic networks with multiple origins and destinations. This problem is motivated by route …