In this month’s Point-of-View article, the authors propose a novel paradigm for vehicular traffic in the era of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), which includes two combined principles: lane-free traffic and vehicle nudging; the latter implying that vehicles may be “pushing” from a distance (using communication or sensors) other vehicles in front of them. This traffic paradigm features several advantages, including: smoother and safer driving, increase of roadway capacity, and no need for the anisotropy restriction. The proposed concept provides the possibility to actively design (rather than model or describe) the traffic flow characteristics in an optimal way, i.e., to engineer the future CAV traffic flow as an efficient artificial fluid. Options, features, related prior work, application domains, and required research topics are discussed. Preliminary simulation results illustrate some basic features of the concept.

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在本月的观点文章中，作者提出了一种在互联和自动驾驶汽车（CAV）时代的车辆交通的新颖范例，其中包括两个结合的原则：无车道交通和车辆行驶；后者暗示着车辆可能正在（通过通讯或传感器）远距离“推”其前面的其他车辆。这种交通模式具有几个优点，包括：行驶更平稳，更安全，道路通行能力增加以及不需要各向异性限制。提出的概念提供了以最佳方式主动设计（而不是建模或描述）交通流量特性的可能性，即，将未来的CAV交通流量设计为一种有效的人工流体。选项，功能，相关的先前工作，应用领域，和所需的研究主题进行了讨论。初步的仿真结果说明了该概念的一些基本特征。