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The use of electric mopeds is expected to result in shorter travel times. The objective of this work was to study the possibility of modelling a heterogenous flow consisting of passenger vehicles and electric mopeds in SUMO simulation tool. Three typical urban links have been considered and a microscopic model analysis was performed for a mixed flow of passenger vehicles and electric mopeds for each link. Two different car-following models available in SUMO and the SUMO sublane model were used to simulate the observed behavior of mopeds riders to drive between lanes or to drive in parallel on a single lane. The findings show that the two car-following models derive different simulation results for the yielding lanes of unsignalized four-leg intersections. Proper calibration of existing SUMO models and future observational studies are needed to refine the models and to prepare guidelines.
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This work is a part of the ELVITEN project funded from the EUnion’s Horizon 2020 R&I programme under grant agreement no 769926. Content reflects only the authors’ view and European Commission is not responsible for any use that may be made of the information it contains.
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Georgiou, N., Portouli, E., Amditis, A. (2021). Simulation Models for Electric Mopeds: A Study of the Impact on Traffic Flow. In: Stanton, N. (eds) Advances in Human Aspects of Transportation. AHFE 2021. Lecture Notes in Networks and Systems, vol 270. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-80012-3_33
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