Pierce Lab Seminar: Prof Hani Mahmassani

Autonomous Vehicles and Connected Systems: Market Adoption and Flow Implications
This presentation consists of two parts. In the first part, we discuss market adoption of autonomous vehicles, and how to incorporate their impact in transportation planning models. In the second part, the traffic flow implications of different adoption rates are examined using a microscopic modeling framework of mixed traffic streams in which certain fractions of the vehicles are respectively autonomous, connected or both. We jointly model the properties of the peer-to-peer communication systems for different levels of message content. The framework is used in an exploratory analysis of the flow characteristics of the resulting mixed traffic stream, with particular attention to throughput and stability.

Dr. Hani S. Mahmassani holds the William A. Patterson Distinguished Chair in Transportation at Northwestern University, where he is the Director of the Northwestern University Transportation Center.