@inproceedings{89ee866b60e64d71a13787c8040db550,
title = "Autonomous vehicles as local traffic optimizers",
abstract = "This paper explores the interaction between autonomous and human-driven cars on a microscopic level using an agent-based traffic simulator. More specifically, it deals with the design of driving logic models of “socially-aware” autonomous vehicles that can improve the performance of surrounding vehicles on the road. Congestion waves, which are created as a result of an abrupt stopping or a car joining a highway, are a known phenomenon in current traffic systems. Experiments performed, demonstrate how the presence of intelligent social vehicles on the road can reduce such effects by acting as a flexible medium between human-driven cars. Metrics to evaluate benefits ot our AV behaviour models under various states of traffic conditions/congestion are also proposed. Finally, results showing the effectiveness of these models are presented.",
keywords = "Autonomous vehicles, Driver models, Mixed traffic agent-based simulation",
author = "Ashna Bhatia and Jordan Ivanchev and David Eckhoff and Alois Knoll",
note = "Publisher Copyright: {\textcopyright} Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020.; 20th International Conference on Computational Science, ICCS 2020 ; Conference date: 03-06-2020 Through 05-06-2020",
year = "2020",
doi = "10.1007/978-3-030-50371-0_37",
language = "English",
isbn = "9783030503703",
series = "Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)",
publisher = "Springer Science and Business Media Deutschland GmbH",
pages = "499--512",
editor = "Krzhizhanovskaya, {Valeria V.} and G{\'a}bor Z{\'a}vodszky and Lees, {Michael H.} and Sloot, {Peter M.A.} and Sloot, {Peter M.A.} and Sloot, {Peter M.A.} and Dongarra, {Jack J.} and S{\'e}rgio Brissos and Jo{\~a}o Teixeira",
booktitle = "Computational Science – ICCS 2020 - 20th International Conference, Proceedings",
}