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.
Researchers at California Partners for Advanced Transportation Technology (PATH), a research and development program at the University of California-Berkeley, studied the potential benefits of cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) by deploying the technology in a platoon of three trucks. They built the CACC system and implemented it in three l
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The Texas Technology Task Force is an external advisory board to the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) that conducts technology discovery activities and delivers recommendations for advancing technology to prepare the future Texas transportation system. The Task Force is developing a Technology Utilization Plan that will serve as the fulcr
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The eco-approach and departure (EAD) application for signalized intersections has been proved to be environmentally efficient in a Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) system. In the real-world traffic, the traffic-related information received from sensing or communication devices is highly uncertain due to the limited sensing range and varying
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Despite an abundant use of the term “Out of the loop” (OOTL) in the context of automated driving and human factors research, there is currently a lack of consensus on its precise definition, how it can be measured, and the practical implications of being in or out of the loop during automated driving. The main objective of this paper is to consider
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This study aims to enhance understanding of the impact of new and emerging technologies on travel behavior/demand for the state of Georgia, and, thus, potentially contribute to improving transportation planning and demand forecasting for Georgia residents. In this project, the research team designed and implemented a wide-ranging travel survey that
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The Remaking Cities Institute (RCI), Quaker Valley Council of Governments (QV-COG), and the Beaver County Council of Governments (BC-COG) are collectively working to answer how the integration of multi-municipal and multimodal policies of regional corridors will impact small towns and boroughs differently from urban and suburban corridors and wheth
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Automation is transforming mobility. Its integration across our transportation system has the power to enhance the mobility and independence of millions of Americans, especially older Americans and people with disabilities. Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) supports and enables automated vehicles to cooperate through communication between vehicl
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The next decade will see a rapid increase in the prevalence of partial and conditional vehicle automation, specifically SAE Levels 2 and 3. These automated systems are designed for specific operational conditions, such as driving on mapped highways with clear lane markings, and, within these defined contexts, can control both the speed and the late
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This purpose of this report is to help the cities of Gresham, Oregon and Eugene, Oregon understand the potential impacts of new mobility technologies – with an emphasis on autonomous vehicles (AVs) – and prepare a policy response. While Gresham and Eugene are case studies, it provides communities of all sizes information on how new mobility service
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INDOT will soon be embarking on infrastructure planning to accommodate autonomous vehicles. This new technology affords the ability to impact economic value creation across the supply chain in Indiana, as well as foster economic development in Indiana to support these emerging technologies. This proposal will be a first cut towards exploring the de
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The Northeast Connected and Automated Vehicle Summit was hosted by the Connecticut Department of Transportation, the Federal Highway Administration, and the University of Connecticut on June 12-13, 2019, at the Hartford Hilton Hotel. The event provided an open forum for stakeholders in the Northeast to network, share, and discuss a wide range of to
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Autonomous vehicles (AVs) are poised to dramatically reshape the transportation system. They are likely to have significant consequences on urban transportation issues: energy use, vehicle miles traveled, the need for neighborhood parking, the ease of accessing employment, and the incidence of pollution—in both positive and negative directions. Nat
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The near-term goal of this project was to develop and evaluate an initial set of standardized test procedures that vehicles equipped with automated driving features could undergo to compare capabilities and limitations across different implementations of automated technologies. In the longer term, this project will provide a basis for future automa
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Massive employment growth at the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center (TRIC), with housing stock primarily in the Reno/Sparks area – and a constrained transportation corridor (I-80) connecting the two – is leading to significant congestion with the potential to slow desired economic development in the region. In addition to other strategies under considera
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The primary objective of this research is to operationalize a new tour-based travel behavior modeling framework that addresses three limitations of existing frameworks. First, it represents time as a continuous entity. Second, it captures the interrelationship between stops and tours across the day. Third, it accommodates the temporal constraints w
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The overarching goal of this research is to reframe debate about the autonomous vehicle (AV) from its current perspective that encourages states to understand how to respond to this evolving technology to a more proactive stance organized around the question of what outcomes society would like to obtain from the strategic deployment of AV technolog
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This report documents the work completed by the Crash Avoidance Metrics Partners LLC (CAMP) Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) Consortium during the fifth year of the “Development of Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Applications (V2I) Program.” Participating companies in the V2I Consortium during this period were Ford, General Motors, Hyundai Motor Group, Ho
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In the near future, responsible highway agencies will need to effectively coordinate emerging autonomous vehicle (AV) flows while contending with daily recurrent congestion. This study presents a systematic procedure for understanding how AV flows impact traffic under different AV behavioral mechanisms (i.e., car-following and lane-changing), penet
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Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) are becoming increasingly prevalent, bringing with them potential for better safety and mobility. However, these vehicles can create many thousands of transactions in a flash, creating a challenge for current technologies that are not capable of transmitting such big data, privately, and securely. Distributed
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Connected vehicles enabled through the installation of IEEE WAVE/DSRC standard-compliant radios in vehicles and on roadside units (RSU) that operate on DSRC bands will enable multiple innovations that promote safety and efficiency. An example is intelligent signalized intersections that allow an RSU at the intersection to obtain real-time informati
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