Abstract
This study investigates the challenges and opportunities pertaining to transportation policies that may arise as a result of emerging autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies. AV technologies can decrease the transportation cost and increase accessibility to low-income households and persons with mobility issues. This emerging technology also has far-reaching applications and implications beyond all current expectations. This paper provides a comprehensive review of the relevant literature and explores a broad spectrum of issues from safety to machine ethics. An indispensable part of a prospective AV development is communication over cars and infrastructure (connected vehicles). A major knowledge gap exists in AV technology with respect to routing behaviors. Connected-vehicle technology provides a great opportunity to implement an efficient and intelligent routing system. To this end, we propose a conceptual navigation model based on a fleet of AVs that are centrally dispatched over a network seeking system optimization. This study contributes to the literature on two fronts: (i) it attempts to shed light on future opportunities as well as possible hurdles associated with AV technology; and (ii) it conceptualizes a navigation model for the AV which leads to highly efficient traffic circulations.
Highlights
New technologies in communication and robotics have had a substantial influence on our daily lifestyle of which transportation is no exception
This study investigates the challenges and opportunities pertaining to transportation policies that may arise as a result of emerging autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies
It is important to highlight the difference of the objective functions: while the User Equilibrium (UE)-traffic assignment problems (TAP) is based on the Beckmann formulation (Eq 1), the SO-TAP is based on the total travel time spent in the network (Eq 5)
Summary
New technologies in communication and robotics have had a substantial influence on our daily lifestyle of which transportation is no exception. The aim is to highlight the opportunities and the challenges that may arise from the introduction and application of AVs. First we shall consider AV within the context of existing transportation systems and society at large, as well as define some related terminologies. As noted before, connected-vehicle technology is an indispensable part of a working AV scheme Such (realtime) communication data may result in collaboration between the AVs directionality capabilities, leading to more efficient and intelligent path-finding (or traffic flow). AV technology is largely perceived to have the potential to substantially abate (if not eliminate) many of these existing negative externalities In one estimate, these external costs can be as high as the fuel price which is imposed on society as a whole, including low-income individuals who are solely. We elaborate on the positives and negatives of AVs
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