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.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.
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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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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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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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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This study develops a technology roadmap of the development of driverless vehicles, exploring the likely impacts for the transportation systems of the state of Georgia and the operations of the Georgia Department of Transportation (GDOT). The roadmap consists of two elements. First, a range of contingencies shaping the development pathways for auto
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Technological advances of connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) will not uniformly decrease crash risks as some environments, crash types, and user groups will continue to experience elevated risks, particularly vulnerable road users such as pedestrians. This project addresses these critical safety issues by: 1) assessing the current and future l
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Connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies can dramatically improve safety by reducing human errors, which contribute substantially (an estimated 94 percent) to roadway crashes. CAVs can eventually operate effectively on roadways without experiencing decreased performance due to distraction or fatigue. However, technological advances will n
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The potential of dynamic ridesharing as a Mobility-as-a-Service centerpiece in cities that are not dense enough for viable and effective public transit systems is being extensively studied by transportation supply researchers. With the era of autonomous vehicles quickly approaching, dynamic ridesharing services could have an important role in incre
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United States. Federal Highway Administration. Office of Operations Research, Development, and Technology
2018-11-01
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Traffic congestion is typically caused by oversaturation, poor weather, vehicle crashes, work zones, poor signal timing, and special events. Over saturation occurs when more vehicles use a road than the road is designed to accommodate. The resulting congestion leads to unstable traffic flow, which instigates breakdowns and bottlenecks.The Federal H
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The introduction of autonomous and connected trucks (ACTs) is expected to result in drastic changes in operational characteristics of freight shipments, which may in turn have significant impacts on efficiency, safety, energy consumption, and infrastructure durability. One such change is the formation of truck platoons. Truck platoons will become m
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