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.
This report documents the results of the second of the two Phase II activities, design of the test bed, and serves as deliverable 8 of the contract. The first two sections provide an overview of the run-off-road crash problem, and a description of the functional goals a run-of-road collision avoidance countermeasure needs to address in order to be
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In 1993. the Federal Highway Administration awarded a series of contracts under their Automated Highway Systems program. the contracts, which totaled 14.1 million, were awarded to 15 separate teams of researchers and were completed in late 1994. these contracts addressed the major issues and risks associated with automated vehicle control on our Na
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The California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways Program (PATH) has been leading the way in ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) research since PATH's founding in 1986, before the term ITS or its predecessor IVHS (Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems) had even been coined. PATH's purpose is to develop the foundations for the widespread
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An Autonomous Intelligent Cruise Control (AICC) has been designed using a feedforward artificial neural network, as an example for utilizing artificial neural networks for nonlinear control problems arising in intelligent transportation systems applications. The AICC is based on a simple nonlinear model of the vehicle dynamics. A Neural Network Con
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This Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) project bridges the gap between proposed Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) decision-making methods and the proposed Advanced Vehicle Control System (AVCS) by providing numerical techniques for determining information necessary to make and implement intelligent driving decisions. The resul
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This document is the Executive Summary of the results of the study of Lateral/ Longitudinal control issues under the Precursor System Analyses for the Automated Highway System (AHS). It is intended to provide a high-level overview of outcomes and conclusions for those not interested in the full depth of the documented results. Having read this docu
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The check-out process is a critical component for ensuring AHS safety. It concerns the process of assuring safe transfer of control from the automated driving system to manual driving. Because the driver has been out of the driving loop during AHS operation, there is concern that the driver will not be ready or capable of assuming driving control a
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This report is the final documentation of a Comparable Systems Analysis which compared Automated Highways Systems (AHS) to Air Traffic management (ATM). Lessons Learned from ATM and recommendation for AHS are documented. The lessons learned and recommendations are more technical in nature than institutional or society. This Precursor Systems Analys
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The main emphasis of the Lateral and Longitudinal Control analysis was directed toward (1) a detailed review and study of the various technologies that may be utilized to provide sensors for lateral position measurement and longitudinal headway, and (2) a rather detailed digital simulation of a longitudinal control loop including the vehicle, engin
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Entry/exit is one of the major components of highway transportation service. Some might say it is the most important component since it ties directly to origin and destination (OD) pairs, as airline service is tied to city pairs and airport capacity. Entry/exit capacity can dictate a freeway system capacity. As we increase the freeway cruise lane c
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The purpose of this activity was to identify issues/risks involved in vehicle operation during the development of the Automated Highway Systems (AHS). The study primarily was concerned with evolution and deployment of AHS; and reliability and safety issues associated with in-vehicle components. To identify existing and promising AHS related compone
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This work is part of a three year program to foster the development, evaluation, and deployment of forward crash avoidance systems. The efforts during this first year have focused on operational testing of a passenger car equipped with a baseline autonomous intelligent cruise control system, also known as “adaptive cruise control” (ACC). To aid in
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This report summarizes the research results in the Automated Check-in Activity Area. Situations in AHS where transition from manual to automated control takes place are analyzed. In particular, vehicle fitness testing to ensure safe and smooth automated operation has been emphasized. The check-in procedures presented here and an effective malfuncti
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This Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) project explored the applications of infrared lightwaves in Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) communication and automated vehicle control. Two IDEA products emerge from this work: a communication system between the traffic operations center (TOC) and vehicles on its highways, and an autom
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At the start of the AHS (Automated Highway Systems) PSA (Precursor Systems Analysis) program, the need for computational tools that can • Provide integrated, system-level analysis for alternative AHS system concept evaluation that would incorporate and build on the PSA analysis of issues and risks • Preserve and make accessible the software and dat
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This activity area report presents a preliminary control systems analysis of each of the Representative System Configurations (RSC’s) in terms of expected performance, feasibility, complexity, effect on system safety, roadway capacity, driver involvement, operation, and maintainability. Communication systems and sensors are also discussed in their
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The program described by this eight-volume report, a resource materials document type, identified the issues and risks associated with the potential design, development, and operation of an Automated Highway System (AHS), a highway system that utilizes limited access roadways and provides "hands off" driving. The AHS effort was conducted by a team
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This report analyzes the requirements, issues, and risks associated with lateral and longitudinal control of vehicles operating on the AHS. This report presents a possible evolutionary path for the automation of lateral and longitudinal control. This evolutionary path is characterized by five evolutionary representative system configurations (ERSCs
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United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Transit Administration
1994-09-09
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Press release for the Federal Transit Administration announcing that a grant for $3.7 million awarded to DUETS (Demonstration of Universal Electric Transportation Subsystems), a New Mexico Consortium.
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