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The AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety has been examining topics related to posted speed limits and speeding since 2017 and has published several documents thus far that described practices for setting posted speed limits in the U.S.; the impact of speed increases on driver safety from vehicle crash tests; and traffic fatalities in relation to […]
Previous studies have shown that the optimal speed trajectories for vehicles with different engine types (e.g., gasoline versus electric vehicles) are very different under certain conditions. This study aims to solve this issue by developing a general speed control algorithm that calculates a compromised solution across different vehicle engine types while optimizing the entire mixed […]