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.
The many potentially transformative changes to the transportation system, such as automated vehicles, electric vehicle adoption, increased telework, and new travel modes, are creating increasing uncertainties for the future. These uncertainties call for fast, flexible models. System dynamics (SD) is emerging as a research modeling focus area for ch
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With the expected arrival of autonomous vehicles, and the ever-increasing levels of automation in today’s human driven vehicles, road safety is changing at a rapid pace. This project aimed to address the need for an efficient and rapid method of safety evaluation and countermeasure identification via traffic encounters, specifically traffic conflic
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"The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas-Austin recently completed a project that compared automated vehicle performance and human driving behavior in several virtual highway and urban environment scenarios. The research team then analyzed the safety, mobility, and human-factors results to draw conclusions and formulate te
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The development of Autonomous vehicles (AVs) has brought many opportunities but implementing AV-based public transportation services has numerous unforeseen issues. One primary research gap is that existing studies on AV transit systems consist of predictions and speculation without actual cases and data support. Another issue is that a measurement
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This project assesses how Texas roadway and parking infrastructure should evolve as connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) gain market share, using behavioral-diffusion insights to frame adoption scenarios. Researchers combined literature synthesis with expert questionnaires/interviews, analysis of AV disengagement reports, and PTV Vissim microsim
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The last century has witnessed increased urban sprawl, motorization, and the attendant problems of congestion, safety, and emissions associated with current-day transportation systems. In contemporary literature, researchers suggest that the emerging transportation technologies, including vehicle autonomy and connectivity, offer great promise in he
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An EasyMile EZ10 low speed autonomous vehicle (LSAV) was deployed on a route between the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute campus and a nearby bus transit stop to study prospective user attitudes and acceptance regarding trust in technology, system safety, and personal security. The LSAV operated on this route within normal travel lanes and in
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Shared-use mobility services such as ride sourcing, bike sharing, and carsharing have been introduced in a few rural communities and a fair number of small-urban communities. Input about the interest and potential willingness to use these services, and adoption of various emerging vehicle technologies, could help improve understanding and planning
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Intersections in the urban network are potential sources of traffic flow inefficiency. Existing intersection control mostly adopts the “cross” flow pattern model, while the use of the roundabout circular flow pattern is rather sparse. Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies can enable roundabouts to better compete with traditional inter
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Autonomous vehicles have a huge potential to improve transportation systems by increasing roadway capacity, safety, accessibility and reducing pollution, congestion. This emerging technology promises safer, efficient roadways and can help reduce pollution. For the various levels of autonomy to be deployed into the real world safely and efficiently,
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The gap distances used on adaptive cruise control (ACC) and cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) systems have important implications for both driver safety and transportation operations The current study sought to identify comfortable or preferred following gaps under a variety of speeds that could be used to help guide set speeds for ACC and
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The Texas Connected Freight Corridors (TCFC) system is a connected vehicle (CV) environment that seeks to improve safety and mobility for the Texas Triangle, which consists of the Austin, Dallas/Fort Worth, Houston, San Antonio, and Laredo metropolitan regions. The TCFC project is a baseline effort to develop and deliver six initial applications fo
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Traffic simulation is an important tool that can assist researchers, analysts, and policymakers in testing vehicle/traffic control algorithms, gaining insights into micro/macro traffic dynamics, and designing traffic management strategies. However, different implementations require different simulation scales, and no multiscale simulation platform
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To predict if the “social distancing” nature and resulting shifts in behavior from the pandemic continued to persist after the pandemic ended, this work examined preferences and behaviors towards shared mobility during different stages of the pandemic. Although levels of comfort using shared modes improved since the summer of 2021, participants sti
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Automated shuttles are small, low-speed (generally less than 25 mph) vehicles that do not require a human operator, though to date all have included an onboard human attendant. This project aims to assess the limitations that the EasyMile EZ10 Gen 3 low-speed automated vehicle (LSAV) encountered while operating on public roadways. The primary inter
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Deployment of autonomous vehicles (AVs) may hold health and safety benefits for drivers with and without disabilities across the adult lifespan. While transportation is critical in helping people with disabilities (PWDs) access health care, services, jobs, goods, community involvement, and societal participation, the current transportation system h
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Safety for all road users is a key concern as Connected and Autonomous Vehicle technologies develop and reach the testing phase. One key concern is the change to two-way communication that often occurs in traditional pedestrian-vehicle interaction. This project focused on three key aspects to this issue. First, a prototype autonomous shuttle system
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This report documents the Comprehensive Deployment Plan of the Truck Platooning Early Deployment Assessment Phase 2 project. It includes important aspects of the Field Operational Test (FOT): (a) technical approach for Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) including system functionality and some initial relevant functional safety consideration
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Visual place recognition (VPR), technology often associated with navigation of autonomous vehicles, can be critical to meeting every day urban navigation needs of people with vision disabilities. This research addresses two major obstacles to implementing VPR at scale: 1) the need for side-view place recognition, crucial for identification of sidew
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We conducted a thorough literature survey on topics relevant to assured PNT for automated vehicles. The presented literature gathers and systematizes existing knowledge related to the system components of PNT and HAV systems. In particular, it treats opportunities, threats, and vulnerabilities related to (1) inertially-coupled GNSS receivers, (2) n
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