Investigating safety impacts of autonomous vehicles using traffic micro-simulation

ATRF 2017 - Australasian Transport Research Forum 2017, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2017, Pages

  Morando, Mark Mario ^a   Truong, Long T ^a   Vu, Hai L ^a  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomous vehicles; Conflict; Crash; Driverless vehicles; Safety; Simulation

Indexed keywords

ACCIDENT PREVENTION; ACCIDENTS; BEHAVIORAL RESEARCH;

CAR FOLLOWING MODELS; CONFLICT; CRASH; DRIVERLESS; SAFETY INVESTIGATION; SIGNALISED INTERSECTIONS; SIMULATION; TRAFFIC MICRO SIMULATIONS;

AUTONOMOUS VEHICLES;

EID: 85084016456     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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