Effects of autonomous vehicle ownership on trip, mode, and route choice

MW Levin, SD Boyles - Transportation Research Record, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) may significantly change traveler behavior and network
congestion. Empty repositioning trips allow travelers to avoid parking fees or share the …

Paradoxes of reservation-based intersection controls in traffic networks

MW Levin, SD Boyles, R Patel - Transportation Research Part A: Policy and …, 2016 - Elsevier
Reservation-based intersection control is a revolutionary idea for using connected
autonomous vehicle technologies to improve intersection controls. Vehicles individually …

Intersection auctions and reservation-based control in dynamic traffic assignment

MW Levin, SD Boyles - Transportation Research Record, 2015 - journals.sagepub.com
Autonomous vehicle (AV) technology is maturing, and AVs are being test-driven on public
roads. A promising intersection control policy, tile-based reservation (TBR), proposed by …

Blue phase: Optimal network traffic control for legacy and autonomous vehicles

D Rey, MW Levin - Transportation research part B: methodological, 2019 - Elsevier
With the forecasted emergence of autonomous vehicles in urban traffic networks, new
control policies are needed to leverage their potential for reducing congestion. While several …

Effects of autonomous vehicle behavior on arterial and freeway networks

R Patel, MW Levin, SD Boyles - Transportation Research …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
Autonomous vehicles offer new traffic behaviors that could revolutionize transportation.
Examples include reservation-based intersection control and reduced reaction times that …

An assessment of autonomous vehicles: traffic impacts and infrastructure needs

K Kockelman, S Boyles, P Stone, D Fagnant, R Patel… - 2017 - rosap.ntl.bts.gov
The project began by understanding the current state of practice and trends. NHTSA's four-
level taxonomy for automated vehicles was used to classify smart driving technologies and …

Impact of autonomous vehicles on traffic management: Case of dynamic lane reversal

M Duell, MW Levin, SD Boyles… - Transportation …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
As the future of autonomous vehicles (AVs) becomes more certain, transport network
managers may seek ways to reinvent elements of the traffic network to improve efficiency …

Tactical level decision-making for platoons of autonomous vehicles using auction mechanisms

Z Kokkinogenis, M Teixeira, PM d'Orey… - 2019 IEEE Intelligent …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper proposes the application of market-based mechanisms to establish cooperative
behavior within traffic scenarios involving autonomous vehicles. The aim is to understand …

Envy-minimizing pareto efficient intersection control with brokered utility exchanges under user heterogeneity

R Lloret-Batlle, R Jayakrishnan - Transportation Research Part B …, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract We propose PEXIC (Priced EXchanges in Intersection Control), a new concept and
algorithm for traffic signal control that incorporates user heterogeneity on value of delay …

Traffic simulation of lane-merging of autonomous vehicles in the context of platooning

G Domingues, J Cabral, J Mota… - 2018 IEEE …, 2018 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Recent research has shown that by optimizing lane changing maneuvers and making
vehicles travel much closer to each other it is possible to achieve a significant reduction in …