How do we evaluate societal impacts of an emerging transportation technology that does not have operational data yet? Nick Caros used a day-to-day agent simulation of both travelers’ and operators’ learning to evaluate the impacts of using modular autonomous vehicle fleets with en-route transfer capability under different operational settings to connect commuters between Dubai and Sharjah.

This was Nick’s MS thesis work with Next Future Transportation. He was funded by C2SMART, and Prof. Chow was partially supported by NSF EAGER CMMI-2022967. The published article can be found here: https://doi.org/10.1080/21680566.2020.1809549