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.
One of the biggest highly automated vehicle (HAV) market barriers may be a lack of user trust in the automated driving system itself. Research has shown that this lack of faith in the system primarily stems from a lack of system transparency while the vehicle is in motion—users are not informed how the car will react in an upcoming scenario—and not
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This document contains the final project report for the SAFER-SIM project titled “Physics-Based Sensor Models for Virtual Simulation of Connected and Autonomous Vehicles.” The report includes discussion of sensors models for simulation autonomous vehicles, and overviews the simulation framework developed in accordance with the project. The framewor
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Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are rapidly being introduced across automobile manufacturer lineups. These technologies have the potential to improve safety, but they also change the driver-vehicle relationship—as well as their respective roles and responsibilities. To maximize safety, it is important to understand how drivers’ knowledge
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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
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Advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS) are rapidly being introduced across automobile manufacturer lineups. These technologies have the potential to improve safety, but they also change the driver-vehicle relationship—as well as their respective roles and responsibilities. To maximize safety, it is important to understand how drivers’ knowledge
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There are many situations where tacit communication between drivers and pedestrians governs and enhances safety. The goal of this study was to formalize this communication and apply it to the driving strategy of an autonomous vehicle. Toward this, we performed a field study of the interaction between drivers and pedestrians. Vehicles were instrumen
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In 2015, South Carolina ranked third in the nation in pedestrian fatalities per 100,000 population. Out of 979 total motor vehicle fatalities, 123 involved pedestrians, accounting for over 12% of all road user fatalities in South Carolina. While some individuals make conscious choices to walk and dwell in transit-oriented or mixed-use walkable comm
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One of the biggest highly automated vehicle (HAV) market barriers may be a lack of user trust in the automated driving system itself. Research has shown that this lack of faith in the system primarily stems from a lack of system transparency while the vehicle is in motion—users are not informed how the car will react in an upcoming scenario—and not
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The research aims at developing a resilient framework to be applied to transportation systems using connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). This innovation potentially responds to accident rates often related to inefficient communication systems, supported by a variety of state-of-the-art safety applications. A Vehicular Ad hoc Network (VANET) is
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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) will challenge cities in many ways that are critical to address before widescale adoption. In particular, AVs may upset municipal budgets as they upend traditional auto-related funding streams like registration fees and parking revenues. This research begins to quantify the potential financial impacts of AVs by analyzing c
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Autonomous and automated vehicles (AVs) will provide many opportunities for mobility and independence for people with vision impairments (PwVI). This project provides insights on the challenges and potential barriers to their adoption of AVs. The authors examine adoption and use of ridesharing services. The authors study ridesharing as a proxy for
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In 2015, South Carolina ranked third in the nation in pedestrian fatalities per 100,000 population. Out of 979 total motor vehicle fatalities, 123 involved pedestrians, accounting for over 12% of all road user fatalities in South Carolina. While some individuals make conscious choices to walk and dwell in transit-oriented or mixed-use walkable comm
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Future transportation system is expected to be in a hybrid form instead of the basic road-vehicle-passenger relationship that is still very common in most transportation systems. That is to say, future transportation will cover additional scenarios and different types of vehicles with partial or full automation. A very representative example is the
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The portion of the research project included in this volume focused on 12 Federal Motor Vehicle Safety Standards (FMVSS). It provides research findings, including the performance requirements and the test procedures, in terms of options regarding technical translations based on potential regulatory barriers identified for compliance verification of
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This report used a scenario-planning approach to develop and analyze the range of potential effects that autonomous vehicles will have on the District and the region in the future. Among many things, the results show that this transportation technology can be used to advance the District’s economic growth and aid our housing affordability issues an
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Self-driving vehicles, as a revolution in mobility, are emerging and developing rapidly. However, public attitudes toward this new unproven technology are still uncertain. Given the significant influence of attitude toward a new technology on the intention to use it, the question arises as to why some people are in favor of this technology whereas
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As autonomous vehicle (AV) innovation continues to gain worldwide momentum and with it the potential for expanded mobility, it is vital to consider how this technology can contribute to improved access for persons with disabilities, who represent one in four U.S. adults, or over 60 million persons. To date, there has been limited research focused o
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Intersection crashes can be potentially mitigated by leveraging deployments of vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle-to- vehicle (V2V) safety management solutions. However, it is equally critical that these deployments are undertaken in tandem with interventions based on human factors evidence relating to the content and presentation of such
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This review brings together the bodies of literature on transportation equity analysis, travel behavior forecasting, and impacts of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), with the ultimate objective of highlighting important research needs for measuring the transportation equity implications of CAVs. In comparison to previous reviews of social i
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The development of autonomous vehicles that behave as independent robots relying solely on their on-board sensors to operate in highly uncertain environments which are to be learned using massive data and machine learning and artificial intelligence techniques is an approach that dominated the industry of autonomous vehicles. Current autonomous veh
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