Research area

Autonomous vehicles (AVs) and transportation systems

Assessment and mitigation of potential impacts on transportation and related infrastructure from the introduction of AVs.

Project examples:

  • The use of drones in autonomous distribution systems
  • Quantitative assessment of implications of deployment strategies for autonomous and electric vehicles, with a focus of impacts on the environment, congestion, economics and energy use
  • Impacts of autonomous vehicles on parking demand 
  • Multi-sensor data fusion for traffic monitoring and prediction

Researchers: Alex De Barros, Lina Kattan, Chan Wirasinghe