Analysis and Initial Observations on Varying Penetration Rates of Automated Vehicles in Mixed Traffic Flow utilizing SUMO

Understanding the effects of having automated vehicles in the future traffic scenarios is an important research topic that attracts a great deal of attention currently. The difficulty in studying this problem is the fact that real life measurement and testing of these scenarios can not be made as there are still a very small fraction of automated vehicles in the traffic. So analyzing and understanding the effects of mixed traffic requires extensive simulative analysis. In this paper we analyze this problem using real traffic data in combination with the open-source SUMO traffic simulation software. The traffic flow is modeled based on the measurement data from a section of the Austrian A2 motorway, while the effects of automated vehicles at various penetration rates is simulated and consequently some observation are made.