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Traffic Flow of Connected and Automated Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities

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Road Vehicle Automation 4

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Significant progress has been observed in recent years in the development of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). Such progress has been publicized through the latest products/applications being released or announced by the industry. However, there is a limited knowledge on the impact of CAV technologies on surface transportation network performance. In particular, the technological specifications associated with CAVs and the response of drivers to such technologies are not well integrated into traffic flow models. These models are needed to assess and evaluate the safety and mobility impact on our roadway conditions. Accordingly, a more elaborate discussion is needed between three entities: (1) the industry partners leading the efforts in developing CAVs; (2) the academic traffic flow modeling community researching the impact of CAVs on traffic flow performance; and (3) the public/government agencies devising the standards and the rules to regulate the deployment of CAVs on our roadway network. This chapter summarizes the presentations of speakers from these three entities during the Automated Vehicles Symposium 2016 (AVS16) held in San Francisco, California on July 19–21, 2016. These speakers participated in the break-out session titled “Traffic Flow of Connected and Automated Vehicles”. The corresponding discussion and recommendation are presented in terms of the lessons learned and the future research direction to be adopted. This session was organized by the AHB45(3) Subcommittee on Traffic Flow Modeling for Connected and Automated Vehicles.

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    By Simeon Calvert, Delft University of Technology (Netherlands).

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    By Hani S. Mahmassani, Northwestern University, U.S.A.

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    By Jan-Niklas Meier, CAMP V2I Consortium.

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    By Pravin Varaiya with J. Lioris, F. Yildiz, R. Pedarsani, D. Farias, A. Kurzhanski, A. Askari (UC Berkeley, USA).

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Acknowledgements

The authors would like to acknowledge the breakout session organizers (the AHB45(3) committee members along with Robert Bertini from University of South Florida and Soyoung Ahn from University of Wisconsin, Madison) who made this book chapter possible. Special thanks to Haizhong Wang from Oregon State University and Mark Brackstone from TSS-AIMSUM for their outreach efforts while coordinating the event details with the AVS2016 organizing committee.

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  1. TNO, The Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific, The Hague, The Netherlands

    Simeon Calvert

  2. Northwestern University, 600 Foster Street, Evanston, IL, 60208, USA

    Hani Mahmassani

  3. CAMP LLC Vehicle to Infrastructure Consortium, Farmington Hills, USA

    Jan-Niklas Meier

  4. University of California, Berkeley, 271 M Corry Hall, Berkeley, CA, 94720, USA

    Pravin Varaiya

  5. George Washington University, 800 22 nd Street NW, Washington, DC, 20052, USA

    Samer Hamdar

  6. University of Massachusetts Lowell, 1 University Ave PA 108, Lowell, MA, 01854, USA

    Danjue Chen

  7. University of South Florida, 4202 E. Fowler Avenue ENG 207, Tampa, FL, 33620-5350, USA

    Xiaopeng Li

  8. Texas A&M University, 3136 TAMU (301E CEOB), College Station, TX, 77843, USA

    Alireza Talebpour

  9. University of Texas at Arlington, 425 Nedderman Hall 416 Yates St., Box 19308, Arlington, TX, 76019, USA

    Stephen P. Mattingly

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Calvert, S. et al. (2018). Traffic Flow of Connected and Automated Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities. In: Meyer, G., Beiker, S. (eds) Road Vehicle Automation 4. Lecture Notes in Mobility. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-60934-8_19

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