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 workshop discusses how CAD and AVs can support the sustainability of transport and what current research indicates about these impacts. It also discusses what kind of expectations and concerns different stakeholders have and whether the automated mobility can be made inclusive and environmentally friendly.
The United States Department of Transportation’s (USDOT) Transportation Systems Management and Operations/Connected and Automated Vehicle Capability Maturity Model (TSMO/CAV CMM) Framework published in 2017 provides a clear set of guidelines to departments of transportation (DOTs) across the country for assessing and advancing state and local trans
...
One of the missions of C2SMART is to help cities around the country better understand the transferability of transportation technologies. For this purpose, two yearlong projects were initiated from 2018 – 2020 to initiate a new virtual test bed ecosystem: (1) 2018 – 2019: Phase I: Open Source Multi-Agent Virtual Simulation Testbed and (2) 2019 – 20
...
The Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) has engaged in several initiatives to help improve the safety of highway-rail crossings. To that end, FRA recently funded research through the Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program to encourage development of a drone-based inspection system for highway-rail grade crossings. Phase 1 of this SBIR
...
Growing e-commerce volumes and consumer expectations of free and faster shipping are pushing the adoption of new delivery vehicles. New driverless air and ground vehicles are being launched and tested to deliver products or services by traditional package delivery companies or to support innovative ideas in retail, groceries, and healthcare. The nu
...
A key challenge facing cities of today is the persistent and growing urban congestion that has significant adverse effects on economic productivity, emissions, driver frustration, and quality of life. The concept of smart cities, which can revolutionize the management of metropolitan transportation operations and infrastructure, shows great promise
...
The number of vehicles with advanced driver-assist systems (ADAS) that can simultaneously perform automated steering and acceleration is increasing, with the expectation that these capabilities will be available in low-cost models as well as luxury cars. These systems require human drivers to be alert and available at all times in case they need to
...
Crashes involving transit vehicles, bicyclists, and pedestrians are a concern in Texas, especially in urban areas. This research explored the potential of automated and connected vehicle (AV/CV) technology to reduce or eliminate these crashes. The project objectives focused on identifying safety concerns related to the interaction of transit vehicl
...
This report presents a study that conducted an assessment of the potential impacts, benefits, and impediments of the introduction of automated trucks and truck platooning on Texas highway infrastructure. The assessment included, but was not limited to, identification or review of the following: (a) any needed infrastructure hardening decisions and
...
This research develops an advanced Eco-Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control System (Eco-CACC) for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs) to pass signalized intersections with energy-optimized speed profiles, with the consideration of impacts by multiple signalized intersections. The research extends the Eco-CACC at signalized intersections (Eco-CACC-I) sys
...
In recent years, developments in vehicle-to-everything communication (V2X) have steadily increased in applications such as platooning, collision avoidance, and routing algorithm. V2X provides vehicles with long range information regarding traffic congestion and routing, but also short and mid-range information allowing cooperative adaptive cruise c
...
In this report we address the problem of cooperative lane change maneuvers where vehicles communicate with each other and negotiate the creation of safe spacings in order to merge without taking any safety risks. The proposed approach requires that the merging vehicle negotiates the creation of a safety gap in the destination lane and till the lane
...
Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAVs) have gained huge expectations in improving safety, efficiency, and environmental friendliness for transportation. However, they are still at a relatively early stage of development, and little attention has been paid to the readiness of roadway infrastructure. The focus of this report will be on infrastructu
...
Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are rapidly emerging in United States cities, leaving urban and regional planning institutions unsure how to plan and develop policies. This paper analyzes how regional transportation plans (RTPs) developed by metropolitan planning organizations (MPOs) are approaching the risks and opportunities presented by AVs. Among 52
...
The goal of this project is to improve mobility in urban street networks by developing a methodology for dynamic speed harmonization suitable for connected urban street networks. The methodology aims at finding optimal advisory speeds on each transportation link that will be transferred to connected and autonomous vehicles, with the objective of re
...
This research will develop guidelines and recommendations for estimating and predicting intersection efficiency in the presence of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) and therefore will lead to a better understanding of how CAVs will improve mobility at signalized intersections. To better understand the impact of CAVs on the operation of signa
...
This report documents the work completed by the Crash Avoidance Metrics Partners LLC (CAMP) Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) Consortia during the sixth year of the “Development of Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Applications (V2I) Program.” Participating companies in the V2I Consortia (V2I, V2I-2 and V2I-3) during this period were Ford, General Motors, Hy
...
Detection performance as a function of distance was measured for 16 subjects who pressed a button upon aurally detecting the approach of an electric vehicle. The vehicle was equipped with loudspeakers that broadcast one of four additive warning sounds. Other test conditions included two vehicle approach speeds [10 and 20 km/h (kph)] and two backgro
...
This paper develops an analytic system to investigate the effects of AV availability on multiple dimensions of activity-travel behavior at once, based on a direct survey-based modeling approach. The model uses individual socio-demographics, built environment variables, as well as psycho-social variables (in the form of latent psychological construc
...
Deployment of automated ground vehicles beyond the confines of sunny and dry climes will require sub-lane level positioning techniques based on radio waves rather than near-visible-light radiation. Like human sight, lidar and cameras perform poorly in low-visibility conditions. This paper develops and demonstrates a novel technique for robust sub-5
...
Links with this icon indicate that you are leaving a Bureau of Transportation
Statistics (BTS)/National Transportation Library (NTL)
Web-based service.
Thank you for visiting.
You are about to access a non-government link outside of
the U.S. Department of Transportation's National
Transportation Library.
Please note: While links to Web sites outside of DOT are
offered for your convenience, when you exit DOT Web sites,
Federal privacy policy and Section 508 of the Rehabilitation
Act (accessibility requirements) no longer apply. In
addition, DOT does not attest to the accuracy, relevance,
timeliness or completeness of information provided by linked
sites. Linking to a Web site does not constitute an
endorsement by DOT of the sponsors of the site or the
products presented on the site. For more information, please
view DOT's Web site linking policy.
To get back to the page you were previously viewing, click
your Cancel button.