Over the past years, TrafficQuest has explored the impacts on traffic flow and traffic management of the introduction of automated vehicles on our roads. In this area, much research is still needed and TrafficQuest has identified research topics and questions that deserve attention in the coming years. One memo describes the regulatory and strategic issues of automated driving for road authorities and planners. The other memo indicates how the possible impacts of mixed traffic (consisting of automated and manually driven vehicles) can be described and quantified, using measurements and simulations.

On Friday December 16th, 2016, Simeon Calvert presented the paper “Considering knowledge gaps for automated driving in conventional traffic” during the Fourth International Conference on Advances in Civil, Structural and Environmental Engineering - ACSEE 2016 in Rome, Italy. The paper describes which problems can occur if more or less automated vehicles will participate in traffic and which research is still needed to tackle these problems. The work in the paper was initiated by TrafficQuest and the paper is also co-authored by TrafficQuest. The research discussed was highly valued by the conference participants and the paper was awarded the best paper!

Since 2009 TrafficQuest has been developing, bundling , applying and disseminating knowledge on traffic management and traffic information. For more than 7 years the partners in TrafficQuest (Rijkswaterstaat, TNO and Delft University of Technology) have been covering the whole spectrum from fundamental, theoretical knowledge on traffic management to operational knowledge on the application and effectiveness of traffic management in practice. But now this will come to an end.