Autonomous car and ride sharing: flexible road trains

N Agatz; A Bazzan; R KUTADINATA; C Mattfeld; M Sester; S Winter; O Wolfson

Conference Proceedings

Autonomous car and ride sharing: flexible road trains

N Agatz, A Bazzan, R KUTADINATA, C Mattfeld, M Sester, S Winter, O Wolfson, M Ali (ed.), S Newsam (ed.), S Ravada (ed.), M Renz (ed.), G Trajcevski (ed.)

Association for Computing Machinery | Published : 2016

DOI: 10.1145/2996913.2996947

Abstract

Since in many cities transport infrastructure is operating at or beyond capacity, novel approaches to organize urban mobility are gaining attraction. However, assessing the benefits of a measure that has disruptive capacity in a complex system requires a carefully designed research. This paper takes a recent idea for urban mobility - exible road trains - and illustrates the computational and research challenges of realizing its full potential and describing its social, ecological and economical impact.

University of Melbourne Researchers

Stephan Winter Author

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Awarded by Australian Research Council

Funding Acknowledgements

This paper is an outcome of Dagstuhl Seminar 16091: Computational challenges in cooperative intelligent urban transport. Supports from ARC LP120200130, NSF grants IIS-1213013 and IIP-1534138 are acknowledged.