Analysis of characteristics of mixed traffic flow of autopilot vehicles and manual vehicles

This work examines the positive effects on highway capacity of implementing automatic vehicle control. Mixed streams of traffic passing through the on-ramp section of a freeway intechange are simulated, with autopilot-equipped vehicles and normal manual vehicles. The simulation compares: Speed, Volume and Concentration of mixed flows on the ramp. As the ratio varies, so the capacity of the ramp is altered. In order to make highways more efficient, the authors propose some general rules deduced from their models.