Lane-free microscopic simulation for connected and automated vehiclesLane-free microscopic simulation for connected and automated vehicles Πλήρης Δημοσίευση σε Συνέδριο Conference Full Paper 2022-07-012021enThis paper presents the ongoing development of the microscopic TrafficFluid-Sim simulator, aimed primarily for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) under a novel lane-free traffic paradigm. In particular, TrafficFluid-Sim builds on the SUMO simulation infrastructure to model traffic environments featuring two novel vehicle characteristics: (i) Vehicles can be located at any arbitrary lateral position within the road boundaries; and (ii) Vehicles may exert, based on their automated driving and connectivity capabilities, “vehicle nudging” to other surrounding vehicles. As such, TrafficFluid-Sim enables simulation of novel CAV movement strategies for various types of road infrastructure and is an indispensable tool for the design, testing and evaluation of the characteristics of a future CAV traffic flow as an efficient artificial fluid, as envisaged by the ongoing TrafficFluid ERC project.The research leading to these results has received funding from the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Research and Innovation programme/ ERC Grant Agreement n. [833915], project TrafficFluid. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/3292-329924th IEEE International Conference on Intelligent Transportation SystemsProc. of the 2021 IEEE Intelligent Transportation Systems ConferenceTroullinos et al. 2021_manuscript.pdfChania [Greece]Library of TUC2022-06-27application/pdf216.7 kBfree Troullinos Dimitrios Τρουλλινος Δημητριος Chalkiadakis Georgios Χαλκιαδακης Γεωργιος Manolis Diamantis Μανωλης Διαμαντης Papamichail Ioannis Παπαμιχαηλ Ιωαννης Papageorgiou Markos Παπαγεωργιου Μαρκος Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Microscopic simulation Lane-free traffic