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.
In this report, the authors examine the applicability of haptic displays for rear-end collision avoidance warnings. Concepts and published research studies are reviewed in the report. This is followed by three small-scale studies of mono-pulse braking and active steering displays. Two parameter setting studies are first discussed. The first examine
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The Intelligent Cruise Control (ICC) system evaluation was sponsored by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) and based on an ICC Field Operational Test (FOT) conducted under a cooperative agreement between the NHTSA and the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute (UMTRI). The FOT was performed in Michigan and
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The Intelligent Cruise Control (ICC) system evaluation was based on an ICC Field Operational Test (FOT) performed in Michigan. The FOT involved 108 volunteers recruited to drive ten ICC-equipped Chrysler Concordes. Testing was initiated in July 1996 and completed in September 1997. The ICC system tested automatically maintains a set time-headway be
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On June 24 and 25, 1999, Secretary of Transportation Rodney Slater brought together nearly 400 leaders from the transportation and technology communities to explore these questions at The Spirit of Innovation in Transportation conference at the Department's Volpe Center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. The conference had three overriding objectives: 1)
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This report is one element of a cooperative agreement between NHTSA and UMTRI entitled Intelligent Cruise Control (ICC) Field Operational Test (FOT). It addresses the operation of a serial string or dense cluster of passenger cars equipped with a new automotive technology called adaptive cruise control (ACC). The string or cluster conditions are ex
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This project assesses changes in service reliability following the introduction of a new computer-aided bus dispatch system (BDS) based on automatic vehicle location (AVL) technology. The research focuses on three objectives: 1) estimating changes in service reliability due to BOS-related improvements in operations control (i.e., reducing bus bunch
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This document reports on a cooperative agreement between NHTSA and UMTRI entitled Intelligent Cruise Control (ICC) Field Operational Test (FOT). The main goal of the work is to characterize safety and comfort issues that are fundamental to human interactions with an automatic, but driver-supervised, headway-keeping system. Volumes I and II of this
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This document reports on a cooperative agreement between NHTSA and UMTRI entitled Intelligent Cruise Control (ICC) Field Operational Test (FOT). The main goal of the work is to characterize safety and comfort issues that are fundamental to human interactions with an automatic, but driver-supervised, headway-keeping system. Volumes I and II of this
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The effect on driving performance of using a speed, steering, and gap control system (SSGCS) and a collision warning system (CWS) was assessed in an experiment conducted in the Iowa Driving Simulator. Driving performance data were obtained from 52 drivers -- 32 of whom drove with both systems, and 20 controls who did not have access to either. Resu
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ITS America. Safety and Human Factors Committee
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1997-08-05
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This event, jointly sponsored by ITS America’s Advanced Vehicle Control and Safety Systems (AVCSS) and Safety and Human Factors (S&HF) Committees, was designed to review and discuss the U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Vehicle Initiative proposal. This two-day meeting reviewed the initiative’s objectives, solicited stakeholder inputs
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This document is the culmination of the seventh offering of an innovative transportation engineering graduate course at Texas A&M University entitled, "Advanced Surface Transportation Systems". The seventh offering of the course was presented during the summer 1997 term. As part of the course, a Mentors Program provides students with unique learnin
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This interim document reports on a cooperative agreement between NHTSA and UMTRI entitled Intelligent Cruise Control (ICC) Field Operational Test (FOT). The overarching goal of the work is to characterize safety and comfort issues that are fundamental to human interactions with an automatic headway keeping system. This report (1) summarizes the sta
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The National Automated Highway System Consortium (NAHSC), ITS America and the American Association of State Highway & Transportation Officials (AASHTO) co-sponsored a two-day workshop in Washington, DC on February 5-6, 1997 to examine the liability issues associated with crash-avoidance (automated vehicle control systems, or AVCS) and automated hig
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This document is the project implementation plan for the Variable Dynamic Testbed Vehicle (VDTV) program, sponsored by the Jet Propulsion Laboratory for the Office of Crash Avoidance Research (OCAR) programs in support of Thrust One of the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration’s (NHTSA's) five-thrust program toward the Intelligent Vehicle
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This safety document covers the entire safety process from inception to delivery of the Variable Dynamic Testbed Vehicle. In addition to addressing the process of safety on the vehicle, it should provide a basis on which to build future safety procedures. The safety procedures will need to address not only testbed operational issues, but also vehic
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This report is a result of the efforts undertaken for Task 6 of the Orange CountyIntelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems (IVHS) Study, the development of an Action Plan forimplementation of the Orange County IVHS Master Plan.
First paragraph: "Thank you for your kind invitation to participate in this meeting and talk about a subject very dear to my heart. What role should the Government play in commercialization of mobile fuel cells. Since I retired from the government nearly 3 years ago, I find myself wondering, whether is it only my imagination that Federally funded r
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It is widely believed that barriers to an automated highway system (AHS) deployment are due more to institutional, economic, and legal issues than technology limitations. In order to sustain and accelerate the AHS deployment process, it is desirable to demonstrate the benefits of advanced vehicle control systems (AVCS) as soon as possible. An ideal
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In September 1995 the Council of Ministers requested the Commission’ to submit a detailed report on the activities of the European Union in the field of Road Transport Telematics (RTT), including a cost-benefit analysis of the envisaged measures. This document is a response to that request. It contains the main results from the research and develop
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An ongoing research project examines guidance systems, which can take over control of a vehicle if the driver becomes incapacitated. Part of this project includes an evaluation of a Differential Global Positioning System (DGPS) for vehicle-based lane sensing. This report documents the results of tests of the 5 Hz NovAtel RT20 DGPS receiver. A serie
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