Post-Wardropian traffic assignment framework for fleets of autonomously routing vehicles

Abstract

Connected autonomous vehicles will be able to apply any arbitrary routing strategies, not only behavioural decisions of random utility maximisers but also collective ones given any objective. Such a route choice process will not fit into a well-established Wardropian paradigm of traffic assignment. To this end, we introduce a new Post-Wardropian framework to better model, understand, predict, and control fleet routing behaviour in future CAV cities.