Expected Results
Given our current stage of development, testing the simulation with only Dumb Cars has resulted in a number of different insights. When reaching vehicle saturations above 40% (approximately 20+ vehicles per road segment) we notice a steep increase in average trip duration. Additionally, the vehicles show no signs of attempting to disperse over the road evenly, instead just focusing on the lane they should be to complete the next turn.
With these in mind, we expect the deployment of smart vehicles to increase overall throughput percentage by the following formula:
Where:
f(x): The current throughput of the network as a percentage of its maximum throughput
x: The efficiency factor of smart cars (0 being as efficient as dumb cars, 1 being perfectly efficient)
C: A constant value based off dumb car congestion levels (40% in our simulation)
d: Total number of dumb cars
s: Total number of smart cars
t: total number of cars
