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.
Disruptive transportation technologies such as autonomous vehicles and mobility-on-demand services are bringing transformative changes in the urban area. To enhance our understanding of various impacts of these new mobility options on travel behavior and relative consequences, people’s attitudes towards and perceptions of these technologies and ser
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Disruptive transportation technologies such as autonomous vehicles and mobility-on-demand services are bringing transformative changes in the urban area. To enhance our understanding of various impacts of these new mobility options on travel behavior and relative consequences, people’s attitudes towards and perceptions of these technologies and ser
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The results and conclusions of an initial experiment that examined human-factors issues in the use of adaptive cruise control (ACC) and a hypothetical cooperative ACC (CACC) in which ACC supplemented with vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications to extend ACC capabilities. In this driving simulator–based experiment, the CACC system was modeled to ac
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$2.6 trillion (over 5% of global GDP) lost annually due to collusion, corruption, and fraud. Impacts: reduced funds for development; lower quality of life; increased poverty; erosion of trust social contract between societies and governments. The World Bank considers corruption as a main challenge to its institutional goals of ending extreme povert
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This paper presents a mesoscopic stochastic model for the reconstruction of vehicle trajectories from data made available by subsets of (probe) vehicles. Long-range vehicle interactions are applied in a totally asymmetric simple exclusion process to capture information made available to connected and autonomous vehicles. The dynamics are represente
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To better prepare for the operations of an automated shuttle bus in mixed general traffic and in Minnesota cold weather climate conditions, MnDOT is conducting an Autonomous Bus Pilot project. The purpose of the proposed Minnesota Autonomous Bus Pilot project is to define an automated vehicle pilot and solicit technology partners to come to Minneso
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Drivers have poor conceptual understanding of new adaptive driver safety systems (ADAS) such as adaptive cruise control (ACC). When using advanced safety systems, older drivers tend to be more open to learning through reading manuals, but also tend to struggle with learning the uses and limitations of a safety system. Different instructional format
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This research sought to evaluate the broad impacts that automated and connected vehicle technologies can have on both the motor carrier and rail industries. Since the development and adoption of these technologies are likely to be gradual, three phases were posited and analyzed. Depending on the degree of autonomy that is available, the motor carri
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Jing Dong (orcid.org/0000-0002-7304-8430); Liang Hu (orcid.org/0000-0001-6351-8542);Chaoru Lu (orcid.org/0000-0001-8418-7658);Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies are likely to be gradually implemented over time and in a traffic environment consisting of a significant share of alternative fuel vehicles, such as flexible-fuel, plug-in
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Citation: Sinha, K.C. (2018). Charging mechanisms for road use: An interface between engineering and public policy, Keck Distinguished Lecture, April 12, 2018, University of Illinois Urbana Champaign, Urbana, IL.
This report describes the experiment on how to model impacts of connected and autonomous/automated vehicles (CAVs) and ride-hailing with an Activity-Based Model (ABM) and Dynamic Traffic Assignment (DTA) in the context of Exploratory Modeling and Analysis (EMA). EMA is a systematic approach to perform sensitivity analyses using models when users ca
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Automobiles are increasingly equipped with autonomous and semi-autonomous technologies such as adaptive cruise control and automated lane-keeping. It is apparent that increasing numbers of these smart vehicles will have a dramatic impact on network-level mobility factors such as traffic congestion and travel times. By enabling platooning of groups
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Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) provides an intermediate step toward a longer-term vision of trucks operating in closely-coupled automated platoons. One distinction between CACC and automated truck platooning is with CACC, only truck speed control will be automated using Vehicle-to-Vehicle communication. The drivers will still be respons
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This document summarizes positioning and timing related information from the three Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Sites (NYCDOT, Tampa/THEA, and WYDOT) as discussed during technical roundtables. Information is largely based on progress to date during Phase 2, and will be updated in the future once all sites have finalized their implementations.
Connected and automated vehicles (CAV) are poised to transform surface transportationsystems in the United States. Near-term CAV technologies like cooperative adaptive cruisecontrol (CACC) have the potential to deliver energy efficiency and air quality benefits. Thisposter lays out a modeling framework for evaluating energy and tailpipe emission im
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This research develops heuristics to manage mandatory network capacity reductions to better serve the network flows. The main application discussed relates to transportation networks, and flow cost relates to travel cost of users of the network. Temporary mandatory capacity reductions are required by maintenance activities. The objective of managin
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Road travel in light-duty vehicles, while of great economic value to private consumers and society, also generates a range of social costs. These include environmental damage from localized and global emissions, energy security concerns from petroleum use, external accident risk, and road congestion. These social costs are addressed only partially
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Connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) must be tested extensively before they can be deployed and accepted by the general public. Currently, CAV testing and evaluation are primarily conducted in two ways: on public roads and in closed test facilities. There are two significant limitations of public road testing. First, safety is a critical issue b
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This report investigates using detailed simulation models to help regional and state agencies plan for the effects of connected vehicle (CV) and autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies in long-range planning. The research integrates the DaySim activity-based travel demand model with the TransModeler dynamic traffic simulation model for Jacksonville, F
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This summary report provides a high-level overview of four experiments that investigated human factors issues surrounding cooperative adaptive cruise control (CACC). CACC combines three driver assist systems: (1) conventional cruise control, which automatically maintains the speed a driver has set, (2) adaptive cruise control, which uses radar or l
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