The AIDA research ventre is looking for a postdoctoral researcher for the
project Traffic flow simulation of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC).
Adaptive Cruise Control controls the speed of a vehicle, while using a forward
looking sensor to maintain a proper headway to a predecessor. Cooperative
Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) in addition using vehicle-vehicle communication
to get a better view of immediate downstream traffic, this increasing stability
of the traffic flows. CACC is expected to improve traffic flow safety and
efficiency and comfort to the driver.
In the project we will look at an informing CACC on passenger vehicles and
controlling CACC on trucks. The project is part of a larger project Connect &
Drive funded by the High Tech Automotive Systems (HTAS) program, in which
prototypes of the system will be developed. Research issues in this project are
human machine interface and driver behaviour, control, communication
networks and traffic flows.
The task of the postdoc will be to assess the impacts on traffic flow using
traffic flow simulation models.
For more information, see http://www.aida.utwente.nl/news/AIDA-Vacancy-
CACC_project.doc/.
You can send in your application before November 12th.
Prof Dr Bart van Arem
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