https://phys.org/news/2018-06-demystifying-future-autonomous-vehicles.html

To answer such questions, and understand future mobility, researchers at the U.S. Department of Energy's (DOE) Argonne National Laboratory are deploying advanced modeling and simulation tools. And in a collaborative three-year project, supported by DOE's SMART (Systems and Modeling for Accelerated Research in Transportation) Mobility Consortium, Argonne researchers are using these tools to predict the impact of CAVs on energy and mobility in metropolitan areas.

"Our goal is to acquire a system-level understanding of how transportation is changing, including how different modes of transportation interact, the decisions made by travelers that underlie those interactions, and how automation affects all of it," said Argonne Computational Transportation Engineer Joshua Auld. "This level of understanding will provide insights to help cities better plan and adapt to future transportation changes."