Autonomous cars and dynamic bottleneck congestion: The effects on capacity, value of time and preference heterogeneity

Transportation Research Part B: Methodological

Volumn 94, Issue , 2016, Pages 43-60

  van den Berg, Vincent A C ^a,b   Verhoef, Erik T ^a,b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b TINBERGEN INSTITUTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Autonomous cars; Bottleneck model; Heterogeneity; Road capacity; Self driving cars

Indexed keywords

COMPETITION; ROADS AND STREETS; TRAFFIC CONTROL; TRAVEL TIME;

AUTONOMOUS CAR; BOTTLENECK MODELS; HETEROGENEITY; ROAD CAPACITY; SELF DRIVINGS;

TRAFFIC CONGESTION;

AUTOMOBILE; HETEROGENEITY; MODELING; PREFERENCE BEHAVIOR; ROAD TRAFFIC; TRAFFIC CONGESTION; TRAVEL TIME;

EID: 84988429285     PISSN: 01912615     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.trb.2016.08.018     Document Type: Article

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