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.
The CITR dataset was collected in the controlled experiments that were conducted in a parking lot near the facility of Control and Intelligent Transportation Research (CITR) Lab at The Ohio State University (OSU). The controlled experiments consist of a series of fundamental vehicle-crowd interactions in the hope of analyzing interactive pedestrian
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Inefficient traffic control is pervasive in modern urban areas, which would exaggerate traffic congestion as well as deteriorate mobility, fuel economy and safety. In this paper, we systematically review the potential solutions that take advantage of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) to improve the control performances of urban signalized int
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This report summarizes current challenges that people with disabilities face and speculates as to which requirements might be necessary for a “fully automated” and “fully accessible” vehicle to indeed be accessible. There are still gaps in accessibility and plenty of lessons learned from several decades of experience with the Americans with Disabil
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Pedestrian deaths are on the rise with 6,227 estimated for 2018, the highest since 1990. Distractions such as walking while looking at electronic devices are the third leading cause of fatalities and recent research has shown that injuries from distracted walking have increased 81% since 2005. The introduction of self-driving cars could further com
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Technologies for Safe and Efficient Transportation. University Transportation Center
2019-03-06
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The final project report for the SmartShuttle sub-project of the Ohio State University is presented in this report. This has been a two year project where the unified, scalable and replicable automated driving architecture introduced by the Automated Driving Lab of the Ohio State University has been further developed, replicated in different vehicl
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This report categorizes and summarizes efforts that are already underway in cities across the world to rethink curb management, to outline the key takeaways from the one-day workshop that involved city staff from Portland, Seattle, and Vancouver, and to identify major research gaps. Key findings include: (1) The curb is a finite resource and it nee
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Regional travel demand models are an institutionalized element of the transportation planning process and require multiple years to develop, calibrate, and deploy. Because transportation planners are being asked immediately how a new technology, i.e., driverless vehicles (DVs), may affect travel demand, this study, using a case study approach with
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The transportation sector accounts for the largest portion of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions compared to all other sectors, and GHGs are once again on the rise. At the same time, new mobility technologies are being introduced and fully autonomous vehicles (AVs) are anticipated to be deployed, at least to varying extents, within 5-10 years. (Waymo,
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Texas. Dept. of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office
2019-03-01
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The Texas Department of Transportation (TXDOT) hosted a peer exchange in Austin, Texas on March 25-26, 2019 to discuss Freight and Passenger Vehicle Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) programs. Attendees included invited participants from other State DOTs (California, Florida, Pennsylvania, Michigan, Arizona, Colorado, and Nevada), the Federal
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The exclusive bus lane (XBL) is one of the most popular bus transit systems in US. The Lincoln Tunnel utilizes an XBL through the tunnel in the AM peak period. This paper proposes a novel data-driven cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC) algorithm that aims to minimize a cost function for connected and autonomous buses along the XBL. Different
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The Future of Mobility series highlighted emerging technologies in urban mobility and priorities for transportation industry change. The transportation landscape is rapidly changing as technology companies introduce new services to address existing transportation issues and innovate new mobility options. With its unique geography, high population d
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Autonomous vehicles are proposed as a way to make driving safer. While much research focuses on the technological and engineering aspects of autonomous vehicles, the purpose of these studies were to 1) determine differences in pedestrians’ willingness to cross the street in front of autonomous vehicles based on nationality and gender, 2) determine
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There is a rapidly growing body of research on the potential impacts of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs), particularly studies on the impacts of adaptive cruise control (ACC) and cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC).Despite the burgeoning research field, there is little consensus on the magnitude of operational and environmental benefi
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Research Objectives: • Assess the socio-economic implications related to SAVs • Identify market segments with different characteristics and different levels of adoption • Identify transportation disadvantaged areas Provide best strategies and suggestions to these areas to ensure smooth transition.
Title of presentation: Anticipated changes in highway agency expenditures and revenues, and user equity in the CAV era. Full citation: Saeed, T.U., Alabi, B.N.T., Miralinaghi, M., Volovski, M., Agbelie, B., Labi, S., Sinha, K.C. (2019). Anticipated changes in highway agency expenditures and revenues, and user equity in the CAV era, Presented at the
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The emergence of shared autonomous vehicles (SAVs) is expected to alter transportation costs and patterns, thus affecting accessibility and mobility (i.e., transportation disadvantage), and could have direct and indirect socio-economic implications, such as access to opportunities and flexible and affordable mobility. This presentation will describ
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Autonomous vehicle (AV) and connected vehicle (CV) technologies are rapidly maturing and the timeline for their wider deployment is currently uncertain. These technologies are expected to have a number of significant societal benefits: traffic safety, improved mobility, improved road efficiency, reduced cost of congestion, reduced energy use, and r
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Research Objectives: • Assess the socio-economic implications related to SAVs • Identify market segments with different characteristics and different levels of adoption • Identify transportation disadvantaged areas • Provide best strategies and suggestions to these areas to ensure smooth transition.
The authors present an autonomous driving research vehicle with minimal appearance modifications that is capable of a wide range of autonomous and intelligent behaviors, including smooth and comfortable trajectory generation and following; lane keeping and lane changing; intersection handling with or without vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) and vehi
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This study proposes a novel CACC strategy, CACC-OIFT, to explicitly factor IFT dynamics and to leverage it to enhance the platoon performance in an unreliable V2V communication context for a pure CAV platoon.
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