Overall Traffic Simulation including Tactical Driving Behavior

• Applicant: Professor Dr.-Ing. Peter Vortisch
• Subject Area: Traffic and Transport Systems, Intelligent and Automated Traffic
• Term: since 2024
• Project identifier: Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG) - Project number 523663459

This project is part of the Mirova research group that models and investigates the migration from human controlled road traffic to automated traffic. Its task within the group is to integrate the behavior models for human and automated driving developed in the other subprojects into a comprehensive traffic simulation based on the open-source traffic simulator SUMO. Using the comprehensive traffic simulation, various road network elements are simulated and evaluated in terms of traffic engineering performance indicators to assess impacts of the interaction between human drivers and automated driving functions that occur at various stages of the migration to fully automated driving. Another scientific goal of this subproject is to improve the representation of tactical driving behavior of human drivers in traffic flow simulation. To this end, a notation for tactical driving will be developed, and a separate modeling layer will be incorporated into the simulator, which is explicitly responsible for the tactical level and can provide directives to the underlying layer of operational driving behavior (car-following, lane changing).

• DFG Programme: Research Units
• Subproject of: FOR 5702: MiRoVA - Migration of Road Vehicle Automation