Control strategies for road risk mitigation in kinetic traffic modelling

TL;DR

This paper introduces a kinetic traffic model incorporating control strategies at the microscopic level to reduce speed-related road risks, simulating driver-assist vehicle effects on overall traffic safety.

Contribution

It presents a novel Boltzmann-type kinetic framework that integrates local control strategies to mitigate road risks in large-scale traffic dynamics.

Findings

Control strategies effectively reduce speed-dependent risk factors.

The model simulates driver-assist vehicle impacts on traffic safety.

Potential for improving road safety through microscopic control interventions.

Abstract

In this paper we present a Boltzmann-type kinetic approach to the modelling of road traffic, which includes control strategies at the level of microscopic binary interactions aimed at the mitigation of speed-dependent road risk factors. Such a description is meant to mimic a system of driver-assist vehicles, which by responding locally to the actions of their drivers can impact on the large-scale traffic dynamics, including those related to the collective road risk and safety.