Automated driving functions for traffic flow models to assess the traffic situation

Nowadays, a detailed modelling of vehicle, sensors and environment is used for the development of Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) and Automated Driving (AD). Due to the time consuming simulation effort which comes along with then high complexity of these models, only specific scenarios can be simulated. For the investigation of the traffic situation at motorway sections with a length of some hundred meters up to some kilometres a big amount of vehicles have to be simulated at the same time. Therefore, microscopic simulation tools like VISSIM or SUMO can be used. But traffic simulation models are not designed for the simulation of automated driving behaviour. Due to these missing driving functionalities, traffic simulation tools cannot be used for studying the impact of the “artificial” driving on traffic flow and traffic performance.