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.
As Automated Vehicles diffuse through the transportation system, it is important to understand their safety performance. Although few AV-involved crashes have occurred on roads during testing, they pose new challenges and opportunities for improving safety. The challenges come from using complex automation technologies operating at high speeds to m
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This report presents a roadmap for technology development and implementation in transportation emissions, energy, and health, in the context of emerging transportation sector trends. Specifically, the project focuses on vehicle electrification. The report identifies technologies currently available or under development in both software and hardware
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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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Researchers at the University of California, Davis and the Technical University of Berlin evaluated these questions by simulating three scenarios in the Westside Cities area using an open-source, dynamic, agent-based travel model called MATSim. The researchers then calculated the benefits of each scenario compared to the base case for various incom
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Urban areas have been experiencing automated delivery technology for several servings of food or a few bags of groceries, with automated (robotic) mini vehicles. The benefits of such automated delivery may be much more significant for rural areas with long distances due to the large potential savings in travel time, travel cost, and crash risk. Com
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Although automated driving systems have made significant progress over the past few years, human involvement is still vital, especially for Level 2 (L2) systems. One of the challenges of L2 systems is transfer of control between drivers and systems. The objective of this study was to design and evaluate an in-vehicle interface for an L2 automated v
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With the advent of automated vehicle systems, the role of drivers has changed to a more supervisory role. However, it is known that all vehicles with Level 2 (L2) systems have a very specific operational design domain (ODD) and can only function on limited conditions. Hence, it is important for drivers to perceive the situations properly and regain
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Understanding the contributing factors in more than 6 million vehicle crashes that occur annually in the U.S. is very challenging, and police officers investigating crashes need all the tools they can use to reconstruct the crash. Given that the Connected and Automated Vehicle (CAV) era is rapidly unfolding, this study seeks to leverage newly avail
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This report presents a review of the main sensors used in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Radar, ultrasonic sensors, a global positioning system, radio-frequency identification, lidar, cameras, inertial measurement units, and capacitive–proximity sensors were detailed, listing their working principles, advantages, and disadvantages. Based
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Automation is the future of transportation. Research on autonomous driving technology and vehicles is taking place throughout America, and the technology is primed to transform existing and future transportation systems. As the technology for autonomous vehicles continues to develop and eventually becomes ready for real-world testing, cooperative a
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Research on firm location choice has traditionally received less attention compared to residential location choices. This study focuses on modeling the location choice of smaller economic units (establishments) within the framework of the North American Industrial Classification System (NAICS) sectors. It seeks to uncover critical insights into the
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Driverless vehicles must operate with a safety integrity level, but urban environments degrade GNSS navigation accuracy and thereby fault-free integrity. Integration with INS helps maintain continuity, but position errors drift over time without GNSS signals. Whether modern navigation systems can provide satisfactory integrity for driverless vehicl
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Traffic related crashes cause more than 38,000 fatalities every year in the United States. They are the leading cause of death among drivers up to 54 years in age and incur $871 million in losses each year. Driver errors contribute to about 94% of these crashes. In response, automotive companies have been developing vehicles with advanced driver as
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The research team used the Los Angeles MATSim model to evaluate the travel, greenhouse gas (GHGs), and equity impacts of single- and multiple-passenger automated taxi scenarios, including free transit fares and a vehicle miles traveled (VMT) tax. The results indicate that automated taxis increase VMT by about 20 percent across scenarios, and automa
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Promising advances in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology have fueled industry and research fields to dedicate significant efforts to the study of the integration of AVs into the traffic network. While most studies anticipate a beneficial role of AVs, contributing to improved traffic efficiency and roadway safety, the underlying assumptions on the i
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Future deployments of autonomous vehicles raise questions on how the actions of such vehicles may affect transportation systems as a whole, including the human-driven vehicles with which they share the road. The project team proposes to build a model of how autonomous vehicles can affect such mixed-autonomy systems and in particular their resilienc
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Traffic related crashes cause more than 38,000 fatalities every year in the United States. They are the leading cause of death among drivers up to 54 years in age and incur $871 million in losses each year. Driver errors contribute to about 94% of these crashes. In response, automotive companies have been developing vehicles with advanced driver as
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The COVID-19 pandemic has caused unprecedented growth in the use of online grocery services, influencing mobility choices as well as a range of decisions (e.g., where, how, and how much to shop). Before the pandemic, only 20% of customers in the US had ever bought their groceries online. But in June 2020, three months into the pandemic, nearly 80%
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This paper focuses on assessing the transportation system and sub-population level impacts of different pricing and fleet sizing policies for shared AV services in Seattle. While the conclusions of this research are meant to be generalizable, we focus our study on Seattle, Washington because it’s a diverse city with known inequalities among income,
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This white paper explores the applicability of cooperative driving for advanced connected vehicles (CD for ACV) on urban roadways based on insights, data analysis, and stakeholder feedback documented as a part of the USDOT Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment (CVPD). Three testable use cases are identified and mapped for New York City (NYC) applicati
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