Assessing the impacts of deploying a shared self-driving urban mobility system: An agent-based model applied to the city of Lisbon, Portugal

International Journal of Transportation Science and Technology

Volumn 6, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 13-27

  Martinez, Luis M ^a   Viegas, José Manuel ^a  

^a OECD   (France)

Author keywords

Agent based modelling; Sef driving; Shared mobility; Urban mobility

Indexed keywords

EID: 85046261637     PISSN: 20460430     EISSN: 20460449     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ijtst.2017.05.005     Document Type: Article

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