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We’re thrilled to announce that the team’s latest publication has been accepted for publication in the highly ranked journal SoftwareX. Congratulations to the entire team — a truly well-deserved success! 👏 You’ll soon be able to read about RouteRL in open access. RouteRL is a new framework that combines multi-agent reinforcement learning with detailed traffic simulations to explore route choice strategies for autonomous vehicles. It models both human drivers and AVs, enabling research in transportation, MARL, and human-AI interaction. This study introduces the framework, its research potential, and illustrative use cases.

Last week at the CASPT conference in Kyoto, Rafal presented SimFLEX – a microsimulation tool for planning on-demand feeder bus services. It combines demographic, spatial, and transport data to compare urban areas and assess service efficiency. Applied in Kraków’s Skotniki and Bronowice districts, SimFLEX revealed Skotniki as the more attractive site, while Bronowice showed greater potential for wait time reduction. Sensitivity analysis on alternative-specific constants confirmed Skotniki as the preferred deployment site. 🔍 A powerful tool for smarter urban mobility – developed as part of the SUM Project. See preprint here

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 👊