[HTML][HTML] Environmental impacts of autonomous vehicles: A review of the scientific literature

Ó Silva, R Cordera, E González-González… - Science of The Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) may have significant environmental impacts although there are
still few studies focusing solely on these effects. A vast majority of articles address …

The environmental and resource dimensions of automated transport: A nexus for enabling vehicle automation to support sustainable urban mobility

A Nikitas, N Thomopoulos… - Annual Review of …, 2021 - annualreviews.org
Automation carries paradigm-shifting potential for urban transport and has critical
sustainability dimensions for the future of our cities. This article examines the diverse …

[HTML][HTML] OpenACC. An open database of car-following experiments to study the properties of commercial ACC systems

M Makridis, K Mattas, A Anesiadou, B Ciuffo - Transportation research part …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) systems are becoming increasingly available as a
standard equipment in modern commercial vehicles. Their penetration rate in the fleet is …

Comparing the observable response times of ACC and CACC systems

JS Brunner, MA Makridis… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This paper analyzes trajectory observations from vehicles driving in platoon formation and
they are equipped with Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) and Cooperative Adaptive Cruise …

Evolution of traffic microsimulation and its use for modeling connected and automated vehicles

N Raju, H Farah - Journal of Advanced Transportation, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Traffic microsimulation has a functional role in understanding the traffic performance on the
road network. This study originated with intent to understand traffic microsimulation and its …

[HTML][HTML] Benchmarking the driver acceleration impact on vehicle energy consumption and CO2 emissions

J Suarez, M Makridis, A Anesiadou, D Komnos… - … Research Part D …, 2022 - Elsevier
The study proposes a methodology for quantifying the impact of real-world heterogeneous
driving behavior on vehicle energy consumption, linking instantaneous acceleration …

Modelling and simulation of (connected) autonomous vehicles longitudinal driving behavior: A state‐of‐the‐art

H Sadid, C Antoniou - IET Intelligent Transport Systems, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Microscopic traffic models (MTMs) are widely used for assessing the impacts of (connected)
autonomous vehicles ((C) AVs). These models utilize car‐following (CF) and lane‐changing …

Impacts of different types of automated vehicles on traffic flow characteristics and emissions: a microscopic traffic simulation of different freeway segments

AD Beza, M Maghrour Zefreh, A Torok - Energies, 2022 - mdpi.com
Different types of automated vehicles (AVs) have emerged promptly in recent years, each of
which might have different potential impacts on traffic flow and emissions. In this paper, the …

A Deep Learning Micro-Scale Model to Estimate the CO2 Emissions from Light-Duty Diesel Trucks Based on Real-World Driving

R Zhang, Y Wang, Y Pang, B Zhang, Y Wei, M Wang… - Atmosphere, 2022 - mdpi.com
On-road carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from light-duty diesel trucks (LDDTs) are greatly
affected by driving conditions, which may be better predicted with the sequence deep …

Formalizing the heterogeneity of the vehicle-driver system to reproduce traffic oscillations

M Makridis, L Leclercq, B Ciuffo, G Fontaras… - … Research Part C …, 2020 - Elsevier
Road traffic congestion is the result of various phenomena often of random nature and not
directly observable with empirical experiments. This makes it difficult to clearly understand …