Project Summary

This project aims to balance road safety and efficiency as conflicting goals of transport systems mixed with connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). This project is expected to generate fundamental knowledge on operational algorithms and analytics for CAVs and develop innovative tools for operating them. Expected outcomes include ground-breaking models capable of the co-estimation of efficiency and safety impacts of CAVs, and control strategies to safely and efficiently integrate CAVs into existing transport systems. This should provide significant safety and efficiency benefits that currently cost about 1160 lives and 1.25 billion hours of congestion per year, and make Australia better prepared for the connected and automated vehicle era.

Update

• We are going to start the driving simulator experiment soon, focusing on interactions between human-driven vehicles and automated vehicles. (28/02/2022)
• We are currently designing an experiment using a connected network of driving simulators. (01/09/2021)
• Welcome Saeed Mohammadian to join the project team as Research Fellow. (01/07/2021)
• We had our kick-off meeting on 04/03/2021.
• The project formally started on 24/02/2021.

Openings
We are looking for talented and self-motivated PhD students to join the project team with full scholarships. Application link.
And we are also recruiting a full-time postdoctoral researcher to join the project team. If you are interested, please contact one of the Chief Investigators. [Update: This postdoc position is no longer available]

Sponsors