Impacts of autonomous vehicles on traffic flow characteristics under mixed traffic environment: Future perspectives

M Al-Turki, NT Ratrout, SM Rahman, I Reza - Sustainability, 2021 - mdpi.com
Vehicle automation and communication technologies are considered promising approaches
to improve operational driving behavior. The expected gradual implementation of …

Failure of classical traffic flow theories: Stochastic highway capacity and automatic driving

BS Kerner - Physica A: Statistical Mechanics and its Applications, 2016 - Elsevier
In a mini-review Kerner (2013) it has been shown that classical traffic flow theories and
models failed to explain empirical traffic breakdown—a phase transition from metastable …

A mixed traffic capacity analysis and lane management model for connected automated vehicles: A Markov chain method

A Ghiasi, O Hussain, ZS Qian, X Li - Transportation Research Part B …, 2017 - Elsevier
The projected rapid growth of the market penetration of connected and autonomous vehicle
technologies (CAV) highlights the need for preparing sufficient highway capacity for a mixed …

Autonomous vehicles: theoretical and practical challenges

M Martínez-Díaz, F Soriguera - Transportation research procedia, 2018 - Elsevier
Autonomous driving is expected to revolutionize road traffic attenuating current externalities,
especially accidents and congestion. Carmakers, researchers and administrations have …

Traffic accidents with autonomous vehicles: type of collisions, manoeuvres and errors of conventional vehicles' drivers

Đ Petrović, R Mijailović, D Pešić - Transportation research procedia, 2020 - Elsevier
Autonomous vehicles have the potential to dramatically reduce traffic accidents. This
assumption is based on the fact that autonomous vehicles eliminate the impact of a human …

Optimal vehicle trajectory planning in the context of cooperative merging on highways

IA Ntousakis, IK Nikolos, M Papageorgiou - Transportation research part C …, 2016 - Elsevier
One of the main triggers of traffic congestion on highways is vehicle merging at on-ramps.
The development of automated procedures for cooperative vehicle merging is aimed to …

Response time and time headway of an adaptive cruise control. An empirical characterization and potential impacts on road capacity

M Makridis, K Mattas, B Ciuffo - IEEE transactions on intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Road vehicles are characterized by increasing levels of automation and it is vital to
understand the future impact on transport efficiency. Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) is one of …

Strategic planning of dedicated autonomous vehicle lanes and autonomous vehicle/toll lanes in transportation networks

Z Liu, Z Song - Transportation Research Part C: Emerging …, 2019 - Elsevier
Employing vehicle communication and automated control technologies, autonomous
vehicles (AVs) can safely drive closer together than human-driven vehicles (HVs), thereby …

Calibration and evaluation of the Responsibility-Sensitive Safety model of autonomous car-following maneuvers using naturalistic driving study data

X Xu, X Wang, X Wu, O Hassanin, C Chai - Transportation research part C …, 2021 - Elsevier
Safety guarantees are vital to the dependability of the automated vehicle (AV), so are of
primary concern to the AV industry and regulatory bodies. Responsibility-Sensitive Safety …

Investigation of automated vehicle effects on driver's behavior and traffic performance

E Aria, J Olstam, C Schwietering - Transportation research procedia, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) offer the possibility of helping drivers
to fulfill their driving tasks. Automated vehicles (AV) are capable of communicating with …