Impacts of autonomous on-demand mobility service: A simulation experiment in the City of Athens
Document Type
Journal Article
Publication Date
2022
Subject Area
place - europe, place - urban, mode - demand responsive transit, technology - automatic vehicle monitoring, technology - intelligent transport systems, planning - environmental impact, planning - safety/accidents, planning - service improvement, operations - capacity, operations - traffic
Keywords
CAVs, shuttle service, DARP, optimization, traffic microsimulation, impact assessment
Abstract
High-capacity Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) are expected to be extensively utilized by on-demand services. This paper aims to assess the impacts of large-scale autonomous on-demand mobility services on traffic, environment, and road safety, under various service specifications using microsimulation. To that end, an urban on-demand shuttle service was designed, optimized, based on a variation of the Dial-a-Ride optimization problem (DARP), and implemented in the road network of the city of Athens to serve different portions of demand with various capacity specifications. It was then investigated through forty mobility scenarios, with differences in policy implementation and market penetration rate of CAVs. Findings show that it led to improved network level traffic conditions, as delays decreased, and that traffic impacts evolve with fleet capacity and served demand. Furthermore, the number of conflicts decreased and the environmental conditions significantly improved, with CAVs in the network, while the traveled distance increased.
Rights
Permission to publish the abstract has been given by Taylor&Francis, copyright remains with them.
Recommended Citation
Mourtakos, V., Oikonomou, M.G., Kopelias, P., Vlahogianni, E.I., & Yannis, G. (2022). Impacts of autonomous on-demand mobility service: A simulation experiment in the City of Athens. Transportation Letters, Vol. 14(10), pp. 1138-1150.
