A Small Number of Self-Organizing Autonomous Vehicles Significantly Increases Traffic Flow (IMAGE)
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With the addition of just a small number of autonomous vehicles (AVs) on the road, traffic flow can become faster, greener, and safer in the near future, a new study suggests. Dr. Amir Goldental and Prof. Ido Kanter, of Bar-Ilan University, present a simple set of guidelines and regulations for achieving the self-organization of AVs into constellations that dynamically control the entire traffic flow in Journal of Physics A: Mathematical and Theoretical. The researchers suggest guidelines for efficient regulations, such that AVs can cooperate and significantly enhance traffic flow even when fewer than 5% of the vehicles on the road are autonomous. This image shows a transition from mixed traffic containing human-operated vehicles (red) along with a small number of AVs (green) to self-organized constellations of AVs.
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