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We’re gathering positive energy and joining forces as we prepare to present the results of our research at the hEART2025 Conference in Munich. 💣 Social implications of coexistence of CAVs and human drivers in the context of route choice Grzegorz Jamroz, Ahmet Onur Akman, Anastasia Psarou, Zoltan Varga and Rafal Kucharski 💣Selecting the most promising areas to introduce pooled feeder services when the demand is unknown: case study of Krakow, Poland Olha Shulika, Hanna Vasiutina, Michał Bujak, Farnoud Ghasemi and Rafał Kucharski

In mid-May Anastasia, Onur and Łukasz promoted our SUMO-based framework RouteRL at the SUMO User Conference 2025 in Berlin. We are grateful for the opportunity to integrate with the SUMO community. 🙌

Less than a month and we will meet at CEETRA annual event. This time at Technical University of Munich with Arek as the local organiser, right before hEART conference. Grzegorz will present our late CAV-Human study 🤖 and Michał will talk about the intriguing and promising concept of Wardropian Cycle which is still in progress. Looking forward to this meeting in Munich 🎤

🧠 Beautiful minds have recently joined our team: 🟠 Łukasz Gorczyca - a part-time student assistant - simulates the future mixed Human-CAV systems with 𝐑𝐨𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐑𝐋 🟡 Natello Descormier - student from École Polytechnique for a 16-week research internship to study coalition games between AVs and humans on urban road networks 🟢 Paweł Gora - experienced part-time PostDoctoral Researcher - will try to beat the humans on travel times with cutting-edge Reinforcement Learning algorithms (on our forthcoming 𝐮𝐫𝐛 benchmark). Good luck 👊

A shared taxi 🚕 for the price of a bus 🚌 - that’s the simplest definition of LajkBus. On February 10th as part of the SUM Project, we launched a pilot service offering convenient on-demand transport. Thanks to it, almost all residents of Skotniki have a virtual public transport stop within a walking distance of 300 meters. It started with 15 and now our 2 vans transport about 2️00 passengers every day! Great cooperation of various parties that made it happen! 🔵 Supported with SUM Project. 🔵 Initiated and put to life by Łukasz Gryga and his team in ZTP Krakow. 🔵 Orchestrated by SCALAR ZF Group. 🔵 Analysed, simulated with our team at Uniwersytet Jagielloński w Krakowie: Olha Shulika, Michał Bujak, Farnoud Ghasemi, Hanna Vasiutina - with our 𝐄𝐱𝐌𝐀𝐒 ride-pooling algorithm (with methodology similar to the one used here)

During the 16th International Conference on Advanced Systems in Public Transport CASPT2025 in Kyoto (Japan) 🎤Rafal will present our studies on Methodology for Idenfying the Most Suitable Urban Area for Implementing On-Demand Feeder Bus Services. This information is a great reward for the whole SUM team for their multi-month research efforts. Be ready for the report from 🇯🇵