Multi-agent traffic simulations to estimate the impact of automated technologies on safety

S Kitajima, K Shimono, J Tajima… - Traffic injury …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Objective: The objective of this article was to develop a multi-agent traffic simulation
methodology to estimate the potential road safety improvements of automated vehicle …

Exploratory analysis of automated vehicle crashes in California: A text analytics & hierarchical Bayesian heterogeneity-based approach

AM Boggs, B Wali, AJ Khattak - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2020 - Elsevier
Automated vehicles (AVs) represent an opportunity to reduce crash frequency by eliminating
driver error, as safety studies reveal human error contributes to the majority of crashes. To …

Autonomous vehicle safety: Understanding perceptions of pedestrians and bicyclists

S Das - Transportation research part F: traffic psychology and …, 2021 - Elsevier
Autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies have been rapidly advancing. One benefit of AVs is
that the technology could eliminate many driver errors and also mitigate many pedestrian …

Advancing investigation of automated vehicle crashes using text analytics of crash narratives and Bayesian analysis

S Lee, R Arvin, AJ Khattak - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2023 - Elsevier
Vehicle automation, manifested in self-driving cars, promises to provide safe mobility by
reducing human errors. While the testing of automated vehicles (AVs) has improved their …

Examining accident reports involving autonomous vehicles in California

FM Favarò, N Nader, SO Eurich, M Tripp… - PLoS one, 2017 - journals.plos.org
Autonomous Vehicle technology is quickly expanding its market and has found in Silicon
Valley, California, a strong foothold for preliminary testing on public roads. In an effort to …

Mining patterns of autonomous vehicle crashes involving vulnerable road users to understand the associated factors

B Kutela, S Das, B Dadashova - Accident Analysis & Prevention, 2022 - Elsevier
Autonomous or automated vehicles (AVs) have the potential to improve traffic safety by
eliminating majority of human errors. As the interest in AV deployment increases, there is an …

Formal certification methods for automated vehicle safety assessment

T Zhao, E Yurtsever, JA Paulson… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Challenges related to automated driving are no longer focused on just the construction of
such automated vehicles (AVs) but also on assuring the safety of operation. Recent …

Crash themes in automated vehicles: A topic modeling analysis of the California Department of Motor Vehicles automated vehicle crash database

H Alambeigi, AD McDonald, SR Tankasala - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2020 - arxiv.org
Automated vehicle technology promises to reduce the societal impact of traffic crashes. Early
investigations of this technology suggest that significant safety issues remain during control …

Survey on scenario-based safety assessment of automated vehicles

S Riedmaier, T Ponn, D Ludwig, B Schick… - IEEE …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
When will automated vehicles come onto the market? This question has puzzled the
automotive industry and society for years. The technology and its implementation have …

Accelerated safety testing for highly automated vehicles: Application and capability comparison of surrogate models

H Zhang, J Sun, Y Tian - IEEE Transactions on Intelligent …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the gradual perfection of Highly Automated Vehicles (HAVs), it is obligatory to assess
their safety performance in simulation that mirrors the real-world driving environment …