Tag Archives: automated vehicles

Effects of an automated shuttle bus on urban traffic in Tampere, Finland

Posted on September 23, 2024 by nradmin

A master’s thesis conducted at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland Ltd. has investigated the impact of introducing automated shuttle buses in the current transportation system. The study concentrated on assessing the effects of a connected and automated shuttle bus travelling on a lane...

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Posted in Intelligent Transport Systems, Passenger Transport, Traffic and Traffic Control, Vehicles | Tagged automated vehicles, Connected Automated Mobility, self-driving buses, self-driving vehicles, traffic management | Comments Off

Literature study on practical impacts of driving automation on traffic flow efficiency and emissions

Posted on September 26, 2022 by nradmin

Marketing and media have raised high expectations towards automated vehicles lowering road traffic emissions and improving efficiency, in addition to safety benefits. However, there is little evidence yet exists to support these claims, as found in a recent literature study. Kehä 3 - E18,...

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Posted in Intelligent Transport Systems, Traffic and Traffic Control | Tagged automated vehicles, driving automation, emissions, traffic flow | Comments Off

Accidents potentially affected by conditionally automated vehicles in Finland

Posted on June 20, 2022 by nradmin

A recent study identified the potentially affected accidents by conditionally automated vehicles (SAE3) in Finland. The study was based on identifying the road network where the systems can be used and calculating the network’s current safety situation in terms of expected number of injury...

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Posted in Safety | Tagged automated driving systems, automated vehicles, collisions, injury, safety | Comments Off

Designing automated driving HMI for a city bus (in TrustVehicle)

Posted on March 1, 2021 by nradmin

The TrustVehicle project developed and demonstrated an intuitive human machine interface (HMI) for automated driving functionality of an electric city bus with professional drivers. One critical part of Automated Driving (AD) development is the HMI design. Information presented on the HMI is...

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Posted in Human Behaviour and Attitudes, Vehicles | Tagged automated vehicles, bus, bus drivers, HMI, Human Machine Interface | Comments Off

Societal consequences of automated vehicles in a Norwegian context

Posted on September 20, 2019 by nradmin

If not regulatory factors are established the potential for chaos in urban areas are likely. Automated vehicles have great potential in improving individual mobility and traffic safety, as well as reducing environmental burdens. However, automated vehicles are also expected to present various...

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Posted in Passenger Transport, Vehicles | Tagged automated vehicles, micro-transport, mobility, public transport, ridesharing, shared vehicles | Comments Off