By leveraging advanced technologies, Autonomous Vehicles (AVs) hold the potential to increase transportation safety and efficiency. This collection showcases USDOT-funded research and data concerning AVs. Bookmark this collection: https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/collection_avs OR https://doi.org/10.21949/1x81-qs91.
This study collected and processed accurate trajectory datasets capable of characterizing human-automated vehicle interactions under a diverse set of scenarios in highway and city environments. Multiple methods were utilized to collect data: fixed location aerial videography, moving aerial videography, and infrastructure-based videography. Fixed lo
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Traditional road safety assessment methodologies rely heavily on AADT (Annual Average Daily Traffic) data estimates to account for variability in traffic operations. Unfortunately, this approach does not consider the driving environment's fast-changing dynamics, which can influence contextual complexity and risk. This research report presents a met
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Traditional road safety assessment methodologies rely heavily on AADT (Annual Average Daily Traffic) data estimates to account for variability in traffic operations. Unfortunately, this approach does not consider the driving environment's fast-changing dynamics, which can influence contextual complexity and risk. This research report presents a met
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The Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) Annual Report highlights the achievements of the CDA program and discusses the use cases that were created and researched to further overall CDA program objectives to enable a cooperative, safe, efficient, and sustainable transportation system for all users. This report also details engagement activities wit
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Workforce education is crucial to ensuring the safety and equality of the work environment. Immersive virtual reality (VR) training is revolutionizing workforce education, providing practical on-the-job training within a safe simulated environment. The project aimed to develop an immersive training platform using state-of-the-art VR technologies an
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This research studied how variations in an occupantless delivery vehicle’s (ODV) design can affect the occupants in an occupied crash partner vehicle, across a range of expected operational design domains. In full frontal and frontal oblique impact configurations, improved ODV compatibility correlated well with less severe LPV crash pulses, lower o
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This paper investigates how global navigation satellite systems (GNSSs) and inertial navigation systems (INSs), when appropriately augmented by ranging from local landmarks, can safely navigate vehicles through a real-world urban environment. We begin by considering safety requirements for driverless vehicles under fault-free assumptions and develo
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Automated, connected, electric, and shared (ACES) technologies are rapidly evolving and will continue to impact the development of vehicles, infrastructure, communities, commerce, and the economy. Based on the Florida ACES transportation system roadmap for Florida developed in Phase I, this project aimed to engage with private industries to leverag
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Public transportation provides a safe, convenient, affordable, and environmentally friendly mobility service. However, due to its fixed routes and limited network coverage, it is sometimes difficult or impossible for passengers to walk from a transit stop to their destination. This inaccessibility problem is also known as the “transit last-mile con
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Intelligent mobile robots, including autonomous agents, highly rely on the correctness of surrounding environment perception. Recently, Deep Learning-based perception models have been shown to be vulnerable to adversarial attacks through one kind of well-designed input called adversarial examples. Existing defenses include mainly adversarial traini
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We examined the user perspective about autonomous ride sharing services among older adults (50+ years of age) in three different geographic areas in Florida (Lake Nona, Port St. Lucie, and The Villages). We utilized the Autonomous Ride Sharing Services Survey and participants’ lived experiences before and after exposure to the autonomous shuttle. O
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The objectives of this project were to 1) examine the AV-based microtransit service in the Lake Nona neighborhood of Orlando, Florida called Move Nona and 2) develop a framework for examining various aspects of the system, including policy and government support, infrastructure and technology, service and management, financial sustainability, and r
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There are direct correlations between drunk driving and car-related injuries, disabilities, and death. Autonomous vehicles (AVs) may provide useful driver support systems in order to prevent or reduce road accidents. However, AVs are not yet fully automated and require human drivers to take over the vehicle at times. Therefore, understanding how al
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Driving under the influence is a significant concern for public safety, leading to many tragic accidents. Alcohol impairs a driver’s ability to process information at every stage, affecting their judgment and reactions on the road. Our research explores the correlation between driving under the effects of alcohol and its consequences while focusing
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) calls for fundamental research on “the driver performance profile over time in sustained and short-cycle automation … and driver-vehicle interface to allow safe operation and transition between automated and nonautomated vehicle operation.” The emerging level 3 autonomous vehicle (AV) has t
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The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) calls for fundamental research on “the driver performance profile over time in sustained and short-cycle automation … and driver-vehicle interface to allow safe operation and transition between automated and nonautomated vehicle operation.” The emerging level 3 autonomous vehicle (AV) has t
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In recent years, camera-based 3D object detection has gained widespread attention for its ability to achieve high performance with low computational cost. However, the robustness of these methods to adversarial attacks has not been thoroughly examined, especially when considering their deployment in safety-critical domains like autonomous driving.
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This study explored how children are restrained when traveling in ride-share vehicles. An observational survey was conducted from July to August 2022. The target population was children from birth to 12 years old transported in ride-share vehicles. About half of children observed were traveling unrestrained and the remainder were either using the v
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This edition of Traffic Tech briefly describes a full report that provides insight into how children are being restrained when traveling in ride-sharing vehicles such as Uber and Lyft. From July to August 2022 researchers observed children 12 and younger transported in ride-share vehicles in the Mid-Atlantic and Northeastern regions. About half of
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High precision road maps are a crucial component to facilitating autonomous driving techniques. Although current Autonomous vehicles (AVs) rely on vehicular sensing techniques (e.g., camera, light detection and ranging [LiDAR], radar), studies have suggested that creating high-quality road maps with traffic control infrastructures (TCIs) (e.g., tra
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