Assessment of traffic impact on future cooperative driving systems: Challenges and considerations

Connect & Drive is a start-up project to develop a cooperative driving system and improve the traffic performance on Dutch highways. It consists of two interactive subsystems: cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) and connected cruise control (CCC). To assess the traffic performance, a traffic simulation model will be established for large-scale evaluation and providing feedbacks to system designs. This paper studies the factors determining the traffic performance and discusses challenges and difficulties to establish such a traffic simulation model.