
Compared with conventional human-driven vehicles (HVs), AVs have various potential benefits, such as increasing road capacity and lowering vehicular fuel consumption and emissions. Road infrastructure management, adaptation, and upgrade plays a key role in promoting the adoption and benefit realization of AVs.This dissertation investigated several strategic infrastructure planning problems for AVs. First, it studied the potential impact of AVs on the congestion patterns of transportation networks. Second, it investigated the strategic planning problem for a new form of managed lanes for autonomous vehicles, designated as autonomous-vehicle/toll lanes, which are freely accessible to autonomous vehicles while allowing human-driven vehicles to utilize the lanes by paying a toll.This new type of managed lanes has the potential of increasing traffic capacity and fully utilizing the traffic capacity by selling redundant road capacity to HVs. Last, this dissertation studied the strategic infrastructure planning problem for an infrastructure-enabled autonomous driving system. The system combines vehicles and infrastructure in the realization of autonomous driving. Equipped with roadside sensor and control systems, a regular road can be upgraded into an automated road providing autonomous driving service to vehicles. Vehicles only need to carry minimum required on-board devices to enable their autonomous driving on an automated road. The costs of vehicles can thus be significantly reduced.
Autonomous vehicle/toll lanes, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Autonomous vehicles, 629, Strategic planning, Infrastructure-enabled autonomy, Traffic assignment, Congestion pricing, Mixed traffic, User equilibrium, Dedicated autonomous vehicles lanes, Robust optimization
Autonomous vehicle/toll lanes, Civil and Environmental Engineering, Autonomous vehicles, 629, Strategic planning, Infrastructure-enabled autonomy, Traffic assignment, Congestion pricing, Mixed traffic, User equilibrium, Dedicated autonomous vehicles lanes, Robust optimization
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