[HTML][HTML] Requiem on the positive effects of commercial adaptive cruise control on motorway traffic and recommendations for future automated driving systems

B Ciuffo, K Mattas, M Makridis, G Albano… - … research part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) promise to significantly improve road traffic. To a
certain extent, this situation is similar to the expectations at the end of the last century about …

[HTML][HTML] OpenACC. An open database of car-following experiments to study the properties of commercial ACC systems

M Makridis, K Mattas, A Anesiadou, B Ciuffo - Transportation research part …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) systems are becoming increasingly available as a
standard equipment in modern commercial vehicles. Their penetration rate in the fleet is …

Comparing the observable response times of ACC and CACC systems

JS Brunner, MA Makridis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper analyzes trajectory observations from vehicles driving in platoon formation and
they are equipped with Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Cooperative Adaptive Cruise …

A parsimonious enhanced Newell's model for accurate reproduction of driver and traffic dynamics

ST Zheng, R Jiang, B Jia, J Tian, M Bouadi… - … research part C …, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper investigates the stimulus–response behavior between leader and follower in car-
following, based on vehicle trajectories in the prevailing field experiments. The analysis …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking the driver acceleration impact on vehicle energy consumption and CO2 emissions

J Suarez, M Makridis, A Anesiadou, D Komnos… - … Research Part D …, 2022 - Elsevier
The study proposes a methodology for quantifying the impact of real-world heterogeneous
driving behavior on vehicle energy consumption, linking instantaneous acceleration …

Energy-based assessment and driving behavior of acc systems and humans inside platoons

T Apostolakis, MA Makridis, A Kouvelas… - IEEE Transactions …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Evidence in the literature shows that automated and human driving modes demonstrate
different driving characteristics, ie, headway policy, spacing policy, reaction time …

Optimization based adaptive cruise control and energy management strategy for connected and automated FCHEV

L Zhu, F Tao, Z Fu, N Wang, B Ji… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
With the development of vehicle electrification, automation and connectivity, collaborative
optimization among the traffic throughput, driving comfort, fuel economy and driving safety …

Formalizing the heterogeneity of the vehicle-driver system to reproduce traffic oscillations

M Makridis, L Leclercq, B Ciuffo, G Fontaras… - … Research Part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
Road traffic congestion is the result of various phenomena often of random nature and not
directly observable with empirical experiments. This makes it difficult to clearly understand …

On the relationship between traffic hysteresis and string stability of vehicle platoons

K Mattas, G Albano, R Donà, Y He, B Ciuffo - Transportation research part B …, 2023 - Elsevier
The existence, source, and characteristics of hysteresis loops in traffic oscillations have
been extensively investigated in the past decades. At the same time, the string stability of …

[HTML][HTML] Merging and diverging operations: benchmark of three European microscopic simulation tools and comparison with analytical formulations

M Boukhellouf, C Buisson, N Chiabaut - European Transport Research …, 2023 - Springer
Abstract Purpose We benchmark three European microscopic simulation software's ability to
reproduce congested patterns at merges and diverges by comparing their macroscopic …