LEVITATE: using autonomous vehicles as urban passenger cars

Jan 2021: New article reporting on some of the latest results from the LEVITATE project, investigating how autonomous vehicles could be implemented in the operation of passenger cars in cities.
Simulating driverless vehicles: the latest model

ITS International Magazine, July 2020: Real world testing for CAVs has its limits. Gavin Jackman explains the key role of virtual testing.
OmniCAV: A Driverless Future for All

AV International Magazine, June 2020: Delivered by 11 partners, led by Aimsun, and partly funded by government body Innovate UK, OmniCAV is a project designed to bridge simulation and trials on test tracks and on the street.
Zephyr® air quality sensors for UK’s first Zero Emission Zone

June 2020: EarthSense works with Aimsun to collect and analyse air quality data for the Highways England-funded project, NEVFMA.
Aimsun to work on traffic study for Gare d’Austerlitz renovation project

We are happy to announce that we are starting our first project with our new client, the Société d’Economie Mixte d’Aménagement de Paris (SEMAPA), working on the large-scale renovation plans for the famous Gare d’Austerlitz in Paris.
Models will have to be redesigned

Highway News, April 30, 2020: At the ITS Canada webinar, Matthew Juckes asks whether we will ever go back to “normal” and discusses how the transportation industry needs a robust modeling system that is flexible enough to test multiple, ever-changing scenarios.
Evaluating the Impact of Signal Phase and Timing

Transport Technology Forum Newsletter, February 2020: Aimsun develops proof-of-concept for a Signal Phase and Timing (SPaT) evaluation tool within the Aimsun Next modeling environment.
Nissan Leaf completes UK’s longest and most complex autonomous car journey

Feb 2020: Aimsun is a consortium partner in the HumanDrive research project into the latest autonomous vehicle technologies, which has successfully completed a complex, 230-mile, self-navigated journey on UK roads.
MOMENTUM: challenges and opportunities for transport planning and modelling

Jan 2020: Aimsun is a partner in this EU-funded project to assesses the impact of emerging transportation solutions on our cities.
Digital Twins

AV International magazine, October 2019: Gavin Jackman explains how
creating a digital twin of the real world enables safe exploration
of autonomous and connected vehicle technology.
CAPRI: Public to trial on-demand driverless pods

Sept 2019: Members of the public can test the CAPRI on-demand mobility service to travel around the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park in London, UK.
Roadmap launch: how you could be riding in self-driving vehicles by 2030

Sept 2019: UK Connected and Automated Mobility Roadmap pinpoints 500+ milestones required to get self-driving vehicles on Britain’s roads in the thousands by 2030
Synergy PRIME multi-level modelling

May 2019: The Alan Turing Institute team has integrated population growth projections, agent-based modelling and Aimsun traffic simulation to assist the development of intelligent transport systems.
VeriCAV: UK government project to test connected and autonomous vehicles

New UK government-funded project helps to explore how simulated environments can support the development of self-driving technology.
Simulating Connected Vehicles with the V2X Framework

FLOURISH blog, Aug 2018: Simulation plays a key role in the FLOURISH project by providing a set of tools for investigation into the use of Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) connectivity.
CAPRI: Aimsun in UK R&D consortium for connected and autonomous pods

CAPRI is a £4.2-million government-funded project led by AECOM, aimed at the design, development and testing of new autonomous and connected on-demand pods.
Mark Brackstone in TRB Traffic Flow Theory Committee

TRB has appointed Mark Brackstone to its Standing Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics.
FLOURISH: Aimsun wins role in UK consortium to lead R&D in user-centric connected and autonomous vehicles

Aimsun to develop a network operations model for modelling CAVs using Aimsun Next traffic simulation software.