RAAV - Quantitative analysis of transport performance and agency costs for five scenarios of the implementation of automated vehicles in public transport.

Dataset description

As a supplement to the paper "What can be done with today's budget and demand? - Scenarios of rural public transport automation in Mühlwald (South Tyrol)", which was published as part of the project "RAAV - Rural Accessibility and Automated Vehicles" between the TU Vienna (Austria) and the EURAC institute (Bolzano, Italy), this file serves to summarise the derivation of the in the paper presented results in a comprehensible manner and to make them publicly available.

The data tables are additional content allowing to illustrate the assumptions regarding the design and structure of the formulated automated vehicle variants and scenarios for public transit systems. They contain agency cost assumptions and scenario performance indicators leading to agency cost estimations. The analysis was done for two seperate municipalities, Sooß in Austria and Mühlwald in South Tyrol, Italy. Both locations underlie different topographic, economic and infrastructural framework conditions which influence transport performance as well as agency costs.

Additional images are provided which allow a conceptual understanding of the automated driving system variants in their core functional idea.

Context and methodology

The dataset is supposed to give a more detailed insight into our assumptions and results which are discussed in the paper "What can be done with today's budget and demand? - Scenarios of rural public transport automation in Mühlwald (South Tyrol)" (DOI not yet available).

To be as transparent as possible the data is provided in the Microsoft Excel format with all cell references. By doing this, we ensure that the data can also be used and adapted for other research.

Technical details

The ZIP-folder contains two sub folders, one regarding Mühlwald and one regarding Sooß, with the same content. The primary file is a Microsoft Excel file containing all the data, assumptions, calculations and results. In addition, a JPEG-file contains a visual representation of the analysed automated vehicle variants.

Other than Microsoft Excel, there is no special software required to open, investigate and manipulate the data.

To get a complete understanding of the concept and incorporation of the data used and the assumptions made as well as the meaning of some abbreviations, it is highly recommended to also consider the investigation of the paper "What can be done with today's budget and demand? - Scenarios of rural public transport automation in Mühlwald (South Tyrol)" (DOI not yet available).