The Centre for Transport Studies is pleased to welcome
Dr Peter Wagner
Chief Engineer, Institute of Transport Systems, German Aerospace Centre (DLR)
Honorary Professor, Technical University of Berlin
to lead a seminar entitled
Autonomous Vehicles and the Capacity of Roads
15:00 Thursday 1 June 2017
Please join us for this presentation and discussion at
217 Chadwick Building, UCL
Abstract
This presentation will discuss briefly some general aspects of autonomous vehicles (AVs), slightly hampered by the fact that they are still not available for more detailed investigation. It will then focus on the modelling of AVs, and together with this, on the modelling of human-driven vehicles (HV). Specially interest arises for vehicles that are not fully automated in the interaction with the human driver and, on the level of traffic flow, the mixture of AVs and HVs. This, then, leads to the analysis of capacity, and the benefits for users and traffic flow in future traffic that has a mixture of AVs ranging between 0 to 100%.
About the Speaker
Professor Dr Peter Wagner works at the Institute of Transport Systems of the German Aerospace Centre (DLR), Germany. Since 2013, he has hold an honorary professorship at the Technical University of Berlin with the title "Dynamic Modelling and Control of Transport Systems". In the past, he also served as division head at DLR, but decided after 10 years to return to a research focus in his work. His research covers a wide range of modelling questions in traffic including topics such as modelling traffic demand and traffic assignment, developing new control methods for traffic lights, designing fast microscopic simulation models, and seeking better models for human drivers. He has authored/co-authored well over 100 papers, some of which are highly cited. In addition, he serves as reviewer for many journals, and is member of the editorial boards of the Transportation Research C and the European Transport Research Review.
About the CTS Seminar Series
The CTS seminar series aims to facilitate discussion on current research topics in the transport field. Seminars are held jointly with our colleagues in the Centre for Transport Studies at Imperial College London.
Seminars are free of charge and open to all interested parties.
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