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.
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 when automation fails. Therefore, it is critical to understand how take-overs from HADS af
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Our research generated demographic, survey, and behavior data related to driver performance on a simulated highway environment. Data was collected from 36 individuals, that were predominantly undergraduate and graduate students at California State University Long Beach. All identifying information has been removed from the data. Specifically, data
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This report recaps Our New Mobility Future, a thought leadership speaker series held from May to September 2019 at the U.S. DOT Volpe Center in Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA. The series convened distinguished experts in transportation entrepreneurialism, design, policy, anddata science who are transforming novel transportation modes to explore the
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The objective of the Work Zone Data Exchange (WZDx) Specification is to enable infrastructure owners and operators (IOOs) to make harmonized work zone data available for third party use. The project aims to get data on work zones into vehicles to help automated driving systems (ADS) and human drivers navigate more safely. The main objectives of the
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This report discusses the foundation of innovative decentralized mobility services for individuals with physical or cognitive disabilities using disability-friendly autonomous electric mobility on-demand (AEMoD) services. By leveraging both the Internet-of-things (IoT) and its associated fog control capabilities, this framework will enable real-tim
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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are a near future reality and the implications of AVs on city development and urban form, while potentially widespread and dramatic, are not well understood. In addition, there are other fundamentally disruptive technological forces undergoing simultaneous rapid development and deployment, including the introduction of new
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The Eco-Approach and Departure (EAD) application has been proved to be environmentally efficient for a Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) system. In the real-world traffic, traffic conditions and signal timings are usually dynamic and uncertain due to mixed vehicle types, various driving behaviors and limited sensing range, which is challengin
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It is predicted that half of the vehicles sold and 40% of vehicle travels could be autonomous in the 2040s (Litman 2017). However, how the presence of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV) impacts highway capacity and network system performance remains unclear. Without this knowledge, it is hard to understand and quantify the implication of the d
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Winter maintenance of major transportation corridors in northern states presents a persistent challenge, necessitating substantial investment by Departments of Transportation (DOTs). Inefficient snow removal operations contribute to safety hazards, reduced road capacity, and economic losses, particularly for freight transportation. This study devel
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Considering the rapid boom in information technology and people’s increasing dependence on mobile data, automotive manufacturers have started equipping vehicles with wireless communication capabilities, manufacturing what are commonly known as connected vehicles, and autonomous systems to assist drivers with certain driving tasks. These technologic
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Research Motivation and Objectives: • The emergence of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) is expected to alter transportation costs and patterns, thus affecting accessibility and mobility • Assess the socio-economic implications related to SAVs, such as access to opportunities and flexible and affordable mobility.
Advances in emerging technologies – such as autonomous vehicles (AVs), e-commerce, and the sharing economy – are having 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 how people and goods move around a city and are beginning to have sub
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Distracted driving related to cell phone usage ranks among the top three causes of fatal crashes on the road. Although forty-eight of 50 U.S. states allow the use of personal devices if operated hands-free and secured in the vehicle, scientific studies have yet to quantify the safety improvement presumed to be introduced by voice-to-text interactio
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Stringless paving is the process of constructing a pavement using non-contact, electronic guidance systems to control the paver elevation and steering without the aid of string lines. Contractors across the United States are switching their primary method of paving from string line to stringless control. The differences between the two processes sh
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Autonomous vehicles represent an evolution in transportation technology and the system of transportation itself. The vehicles will change how current transportation infrastructure is utilized, along with how people use transportation, and the environmental impacts of the transportation system. App based autonomous taxis are considered, using a stat
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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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The rate of deployment of new automotive technologies into vehicles has seemingly increased over the past decade. Drivers face an array of technologies in new vehicles today that provide the driver with increased automation and direct support for the driving task. Unlike advances in safety around air bags or electronic stability control, or changes
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Recently, hurricanes have caused major concern for transportation agencies and policymakers attempting to find better evacuation strategies. This was especially evident after Hurricane Irma, which forced about 6.5 million Floridians to evacuate the state. This mass evacuation caused a significant amount of delays on state highways due to heavy cong
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Because most automated vehicles (AVs) are programmed to follow a set path and maintain a lateral position in the center of the lane, over time significant pavement rutting will occur. This study directly measured AV lateral wandering patterns. It was found that the wandering patterns of both AVs and human-driven vehicles could be modeled with a nor
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Recently, hurricanes have caused major concern for transportation agencies and policymakers attempting to find better evacuation strategies. This was especially evident after Hurricane Irma, which forced about 6.5 million Floridians to evacuate the state. This mass evacuation caused a significant amount of delays on state highways due to heavy cong
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