Emission Effects of Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control: A Simulation Case Using SUMO

The recent advances in adaptive control and autonomous vehicles have given rise to the studies on cooperative control of road vehicles, and the consequent effects on traffic flow performances. In this paper, we summarize our findings from a simulation-based solution of a problem that seeks the joint optimization of a number of link-based performances of vehicular traffic flow considering explicitly the emissions exhausted using the Eclipse SUMO micro-simulation environment in order to discuss the effectiveness of the penetration rates of cooperatively controlled vehicles in mixed traffic.