This thesis aims to 1) characterize Autonomous Vehicles (AV) mobility services, 2) investigate their socioeconomic impacts, and 3) provide a comparison between AV services and the existing services based on socioeconomic assessment in different territories.
As AV are relatively a new topic of research and Cost Benefit Analysis (CBA) is a traditional assessment tool for transport planners, some works have already been done to start evaluating AVs through a socioeconomic prism. In this thesis, a CBA framework is developed and references values for new items are proposed.
Two majors emprirical contributions can be identified. The first one is based on the literature analysis. A bibliometric analysis of mobility simulations studies provides insights on the indicators used by the academic community to assess AVs and the models used to model and simulate the behavior of AVs and travelers. This analysis is enriched by a meta-analysis that assesses AVs services performances based on Vehicle Kilometer Traveled (VKT), Total Time Traveled, Fleet Size and Total Cost compared to other services (including several different AV services).
Source : Berlin 1% population sample (MATSim simulation)
The second contribution is related to the application of the socioeconomic assessment framework on three different territory types: urban, peri-urban, and rural. This helps to start understanding which AVs services are more interesting services than others and which AV services bring the most value to a specific type of territories. Specifically, this thesis contributes to gain understanding of routing impacts from on-demand services, through the socioeconomic evaluation of doo-to-door and stop-based routing.
This thesis also has been the frame to develop either technical or methodological tools to assess agent-based simulation scenarios. With Tarek CHOUAKI (CentraleSupelec and IRT SystemX), we co-developed a Java module allowing to collect most common mobility KPIs for socioeconomic analysis. Based on these outputs, I build an equity analysis framework based on MATSim score, i.e. agent’s utilities.
Thématiques de Recherche