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.
LiDAR is an emerging technology that can provide detailed point-cloud measurements for accurate detection and characterization of objects. The cost of this technology has seen significant reduction in recent years with the scaling of production to meet the demands of wide-ranging applications such as autonomous vehicles, infrastructure inventory an
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As society progresses towards increased automation in aviation—such as with Advanced Air Mobility and Unmanned Aircraft Systems—it is important to have a common understanding and perspective about automation among the many stakeholders, including aviation system designers, operators, maintainers, and regulatory authorities. Unfortunately, the disco
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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, as seen in Figure 1.
Researchers simulated US transportation systems and forecasted the impacts of AVs and shared AVs (SAVs) on destination and mode choices of long-distance passenger and freight trips within the US, targeting a future 20+ years from now. They created demand sub-models for vehicle ownership, trip timing/scheduling and frequency, trip purpose and travel
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This study aims to investigate the effects of cooperative driving for two driving scenarios: non-signalized intersection (Fig 1) and freeway off-ramp. Multi-driver-in-the-loop co-simulation used for this research.
Cooperative driving powered by connected vehicle (CV) technology is expected to improve traffic safety and efficiency, especially at locations with dense vehicle interactions. Although lots of research have developed their cooperative driving algorithms for different locations, the effects of human drivers in the loop and multi-agent driving decisi
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The purpose of this proposal is to develop innovative reinforcement learning control methods for lane changing of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in mixed traffic. In the proposed framework, before the CAV changes to the target lane, it needs to predict most likely behavior of surrounding vehicles related to the lane change and then determ
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The deployment of autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies may hold health and safety benefits for drivers across the driving lifespan (>18 years of age). However, up until now, the perceptions of such drivers about AVs have not been examined with a combined approach of using surveys and pre- and post-exposure to the actual technology. Lived experience
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Studies from around the world have started investigating aspects of ATV simulation. However, these efforts are still in their infancy, and are constrained by the limited amount of real-world data to validate and calibrate the developed models. The existence of some work on this subject does not mean that the conducted research up to this point is s
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VisioStack Inc. completed initial research to automate drone inspection flights over railroad track using real-time rail detection and track centerline following to simulate flight control without Global Positioning System (GPS) information. Uncrewed Aerial Systems (UAS, or drones) are platforms that may enable more frequent and safer track inspect
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This project will use a combination of laboratory experimentation and road demonstrations to better understand the reduction of LiDAR signal and object detection capability under adverse weather conditions found in Minnesota. It will also lead to concepts to improve LiDAR systems to adapt to such conditions through better signal processing image re
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In efforts to predict the long-distance travel impacts (for passengers and freight) of self-driving cars and trucks across Texas and the US, researchers estimated models for long-distance domestic passenger and freight trips before and after the introduction of autonomous vehicles (AVs) and applied the passenger models to a 10%synthetic US populati
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Connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) are an emerging technology that has great potential for increasing road capacity and reducing traffic incidents, congestion, fuel/energy consumption as well as emission, all of which may support safer and more reliable and efficient (and potentially sustainable) transportation systems. Given that transportat
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Forty-three households in the Sacramento region representing diverse demographics, modal preferences, mobility barriers, and weekly vehicle miles traveled (VMT) were provided personal chauffeurs for one or two weeks to simulate travel behavior with a personally-owned, fully autonomous vehicle (AV). During the chauffeur week(s), the total number of
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With the accelerated deployment of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies, public agencies have urgent needs on how to utilize these rich data sources of CAVs to improve traffic mobility, safety, and environmental and energy impact. This research will tackle one of the big data challenges, which is mining driving behavior patterns using
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This report chronicles the work undertaken by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign to identify policies and design guidelines to plan for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in mid-sized regions in Illinois. The report starts with the goals of this work followed by a review of existing literature. The review addresses CAV
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Recent research activities are focused on improving Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communication (V2V) based on the 5G Technology. V2V applications are important because they are expected to reduce the risk of accidents up to 80%, enhance traffic management, mitigate congestion, and optimize fuel consumption. Typical autonomous vehicle applications require a h
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Work zones are critical for efficient and safe operation of a highway transportation system. Performing the maintenance required for a roadway infrastructure, however, could involve risks. In 2017 alone, a total of 158,000 total vehicle crashes occurred in our nation’s work zones, accounting for 61,000 injuries [1]. Many of these frequently involve
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The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) recognizes that cooperative automated driving systems will have a transformative impact on how the nation’s highways will operate in the future. One of the proposed near-term services is truck platooning. Truck platooning promises fuel savings to platooning trucks by enabling them to follow eac
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In the era of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles, platooning has the potential to increase roadway capacity and reduce energy consumption. However, vehicles may expend extra energy as they try to form platoons. Also, depending on its position within a platoon, the energy savings of each vehicle can be different. Thus, optimizing and quantifying the
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