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.
Advocates of electric, shared, and automated vehicles (e-SAVs) envision a future in which people no longer need to drive their privately owned, petroleum-fueled vehicles. Instead, for daily travel they rely on fleets of electric, automated vehicles that offer travel services, including the option to share, or “pool,” rides with strangers. The desig
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Research, Development, and Technology
2021-02-01
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This TechBrief provides a summary of a study the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) conducted to evaluate how using three-dimensional (3D) engineered models in conjunction with Automated Machine Guidance (AMG) technology affects initial pavement smoothness. The assessment approach included a comprehensive literature review, engagement with State
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Driving intelligence tests are critical to the development and deployment of autonomous vehicles. The prevailing approach tests autonomous vehicles in life-like simulations of the naturalistic driving environment. However, due to the high dimensionality of the environment and the rareness of safety-critical events, hundreds of millions of miles wou
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Advanced vehicle technologies are increasingly more accessible and available in vehicles. These current and future systems, despite promising added safety, convenience, and efficiency to drivers and road users, have an inherently higher level of complexity than the driving systems that most drivers are used to operating. In order to maximize the pr
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This study fills the gap in the limited research on the effect of emerging Automated Vehicle (AV) technology on infrastructure standards. The main objective of this research is to evaluate implications of an innovative infrastructure solution, exclusive AV lanes, for safe and efficient integration of AVs into an existing transportation system. Exam
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This report explores how older adults may be affected by the introduction of automated vehicles (AVs). It focuses on highly automated Level 4 AVs, self-driving vehicles that require no human supervision as long as certain conditions are met. It is based on information gathered from a literature review, interviews with subject matter experts, and a
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This report presents an analysis of the potential macroeconomic impacts resulting from the adoption of higher level automated driving systems (ADS) of the long-haul trucking industry in the United States. The analysis uses USAGE-Hwy, a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model of the U.S. economy that includes detail on transportation related indu
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Commuting congestion increases alongside the prosperity of urban cities. With the rapid development of ride sourcing services and the advances of the connected and automated vehicles (CAV), researchers are seeking innovative approaches to alleviate commuting congestion by integrating CAV-based ride sourcing and transit services. We propose a genera
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This report summarizes the results of a one-year project aimed at exploiting vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication to enhance the effectiveness of real-time adaptive traffic signal control systems. As originally formulated, the project’s goal was to explore the potential of using the sensing capabilities of connected autonomous vehicles (CA
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Included in this second volume are 18 Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS) research findings, including the performance requirements and test procedures, in terms of options regarding technical translations, based on potential regulatory barriers identified for compliance verification of innovative new vehicle designs that may appear in v
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Adaptive cruise control (ACC) is a longitudinal control system through which a vehicle can automatically maintain a driver-selected speed and, through the use of radar or light detection and ranging sensors, a preselected gap between itself and a slower-moving vehicle ahead.(1) ACC is marketed as a convenience system that reduces stress and workloa
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This report focuses on how cities can use climate action plans (CAPs) to ensure that on-demand mobility and autonomous vehicles (AVs) help reduce, rather than increase, green-house gas (GHG) emissions and inequitable impacts from the transportation system. The authors employed a three-pronged research strategy involving: (1) an analysis of the curr
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The main objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and operational impacts of an innovative infrastructure solution for safe and efficient integration of Automated Vehicle (AV) as an emerging technology into an existing transportation system. Filling the gap in the limited research on the effect of AV technology on infrastructure standards,
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The project presents a pavement sensing system along with a list of promising computing models that can be used to predict pavement conditions using a vehicle-based sensing technology. The project started with data acquisition obtained from the previous field data collection followed by a series of data computing using machine learning methods to d
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Despite growing interest in low-speed automated shuttles, pilot deployments have only just begun in a few places in the U.S., and there is a lack of studies that estimate the impacts of a widespread deployment of automated shuttles designed to supplement existing transit networks. This project estimated the potential impacts of automated shuttles b
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Data communication links are essential components of the ecosystem of intelligent vehicles, enabling autonomous and semi-autonomous driving. Maintaining a reliable, low latency communication link has been a topic of interest in research and product development. The driving force of these developments is a better awareness of the wider surroundings
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Communications between vehicles is one of the most important prerequisites for inter-vehicle coordination, a key feature needed to enable autonomous and semi-autonomous driving, from an efficiency, convenience and safety perspective. Such communication will have to be done with very low latency, which lead the industry into looking at mm-wave bands
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Automated vehicles (AVs) promise to revolutionize driving safety. Driver models can aid in achieving this promise by providing a tool for designers to ensure safe interactions between human drivers and AVs. In this project, we performed a literature review to identify important factors for AV takeover safety and promising models to capture these fa
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Using experience from working on the Knight Autonomous Vehicle (AV) Initiative, Urbanism Next created this white paper to provide a foundation for public sector agencies to approach autonomous vehicle deployment and policy with a focus on equity. This report outlines ways that public agencies can identify community needs and shape deployment to ens
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Monthly reports on Arlington RAPID project which integrates a shared, dynamically routed automated vehicle (AV) fleet into an existing public rideshare system in Arlington, Texas.
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