CAV Impacts on Road Safety + Road Network Performance
What the buyer wrote
CAVs may offer significant benefits for network performance, but evidence is limited. DfT has recently completed an analysis of potential impacts of CAVs on traffic flow and road capacity. However this did not examine wider issues on how CAVs could affect network traffic - this research seeks to further address two of these areas, safety and alternative use of road space for different vehicles and speeds: Safety - our previous research indicated significant potential benefits for journey times, delay and reliability. However these benefits did not account for either the effects of incidents on delay and disruption to traffic flow (which might constrain the benefits),or the potential positiv…
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- What the buyer calls it
- CAV Impacts on Road Safety + Road Network Performance
- How they are buying
- The buyer did not say
- Type
- services
- Work starts
- 9 Oct 2016
- Work ends
- 31 Mar 2017
- Kind of work
- Research, evaluation and insight
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