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 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.
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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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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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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Motivated by autonomous and connected vehicle technology, truck platooning has significant economic benefits on the freight transportation industry. Lower average fuel consumption can be achieved due to the reduced air-drag force experienced by the platoon during operation. This report presents the procedure and results of computational fluid dynam
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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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Lateral position of loading, which is an important input to pavement design and analysis, is a random phenomenon for human-driven trucks because they do not follow a straight path as they travel. Therefore, in the pavement-design community, this variable has been called “wheel wander” and conventionally considered in an implicit way. However, with
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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 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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This report presents a review of the main sensors used in connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs). Radar, ultrasonic sensors, a global positioning system, radio-frequency identification, lidar, cameras, inertial measurement units, and capacitive–proximity sensors were detailed, listing their working principles, advantages, and disadvantages. Based
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This project developed a conceptual framework for an analysis, modeling, and simulation system for evaluating the impacts of connected and automated vehicle (CAV) technologies on transportation facilities at the strategic and operational levels, providing the basis for future development of CAV-enabled evaluation tools. The objective of this projec
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