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.
We present a novel statistical inference framework for convex empirical risk minimization, using approximate stochastic Newton steps. The proposed algorithm is based on the notion of finite differences and allows the approximation of a Hessian-vector product from first-order information. In theory, our method efficiently computes the statistical er
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Automated vehicles (AVs) should be deployed gradually and geometrically selectively to ensure safety. Frequent collisions of AVs in certain driving scenarios, such as in dark streets or crowded areas, have posed wide concerns of AV safety. People want to know what kinds of driving circumstances or areas are easy for AVs and what are relatively hard
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FTA has conducted research on conceptual ideas, prototypes, and commercially available products related to automated vehicle technologies for transit bus operations. The emerging automated transit bus market has received enthusiastic media coverage, but stakeholders may not clearly understand the difference between conceptual ideas, prototype syste
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This report presents a study that investigated potential travel behavior changes in light of automated, connected, electric, and shared-use vehicle (ACES) technologies. Three main aspects of choice behavior were investigated: AV adoption and willingness to pay (WTP), shared mobility adoption, and mode choice. Particularly, this study focuses on exp
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This study was designed to assess capacity changes due to the introduction of connected vehicles (CVs) and automated vehicles (AVs) on Virginia freeway corridors. Overall, three vehicle types, including legacy vehicles (LVs); vehicles equipped with adaptive cruise control (ACC) (AVs); and vehicles equipped with cooperative adaptive cruise control (
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Disruptive changes in mobility services are emerging across the nation and in New York State that have the potential to further enable private car-optional lifestyles and expanded, more flexible and affordable mobility choices. By convening stakeholder engagement roundtables of advanced transportation experts, then utilizing available data for visu
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This research project is intended to track disruptive technologies impacting transportation including automated and connected vehicles, big data analytics, shared vehicles, electric vehicles and novel modes of transportation. The researchers follow industry and technology trends, synthesize research results from the full range of Carnegie Mellon Un
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A burgeoning field of research has begun to directly compare the impacts of pairing vehicle automation and connectivity to automation alone. While most recent impact studies that evaluate adaptive cruise control (ACC) and cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) rely on traffic simulation, the US Department of Transportation has recently conducte
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This study evaluates the potential human health impacts from connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) scenarios in the San Francisco, Bay Area. The study concentrates on impacts derived from the effects of CAVs on travel demand, safety, and environmental emissions. The study combines an extensive literature review about the extent of such potential
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The increasing number of senior drivers may introduce new road risks due to age-related declines in physical and cognitive abilities. Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) have been proposed as solutions to minimize age-related declines, thereby increasing both senior safety and mobility. This study examined factors that influence seniors’ atti
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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) at varying market penetration rates will change traffic flow and highway performance. At AV market penetration rates of between 0 percent and 100 percent, human-driven vehicles (HVs) will be interacting with AVs. However, little is known about how HVs interact with AVs. Using the Oregon State University Driving Simulator,
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Multiple studies have explored different forms of connected vehicle applications, such as queue warning and cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC), in standard wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE), and dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) network environments. A major focus of the ongoing research is to consider a hybrid vehic
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Over the next several decades, highly automated driving systems (HADS) will become increasingly common on our roads, greatly reducing traffic accidents and road congestion. However, for the foreseeable future, the human driver will be required to take control of a car when automation fails. Although the benefits to HADS implementation can be substa
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The potential for automated vehicles (AVs) to reduce parking in city centers has generated much excitement among urban planners. AVs could drop-off (DO) and pick-up (PU) passengers in areas where parking costs are high: personal AVs could return home or park in less expensive locations, and shared AVs could serve other passengers. Reduced on-street
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Advances in transportation technology such as the advent of scooter and bikeshare systems (micromobility), ridehailing, and autonomous vehicles (AV’s) are beginning to have profound effects not only on how we live, move, and spend our time in cities, but also on urban form and development itself. These new technologies are changing the systems of t
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The objective of this project was to explore how an autonomous vehicle identifies and safely responds to emergency vehicles using visual and other onboard sensors. Emergency vehicles can include police, fire, hospital and other responders’ vehicles. An autonomous vehicle in the presence of an emergency vehicle must have the ability to accurately se
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Multiple studies have explored different forms of connected vehicle applications, such as queue warning and cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC), in standard wireless access in vehicular environments (WAVE), and dedicated short-range communication (DSRC) network environments. A major focus of the ongoing research is to consider a hybrid vehic
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Most mid-size and large open-campus universities have courtesy shuttle or bus service as an important mode of transportation around campus and in nearby vicinities. Given on-campus traffic conditions, traffic congestion between classes, the nature of short-distance trips within or around campus, and difficulty with finding parking spaces, automated
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The Federal Rail Administration (FRA) Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Inventory database from 2019 states that there are approximately 127,000 public, at-grade highway-rail grade crossings in the U.S. Despite this large number of direct intersections between the public highway and largely private rail systems, little current intelligent transport syste
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The Urbanism Next Center at the University of Oregon, in partnership with Alta Planning + Design, Spirit for Change, and Metro hosted the Future of Public Spaces and Placemaking workshop on January 24th, 2020. This one-day workshop, supported by the Knight Foundation, brought together a wide range of community activists, government officials, polic
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