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 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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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 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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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.
The work presented here is part of a bigger effort to design an automated highway system to improve the capacity and safety of the current highways. Automation of highways and in particular platooning of vehicles raises a number of control issues. In the design proposed by California PATH these issues are addressed by a hierarchical structure consi
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This document represents the final report for the Orange County Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems (IVHS) Study, Prepared for the Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) The purpose of this report is to document the findings of the IVHS study and present the proposed system programs and elements. The study will also evaluate the proposed pro
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This Study is intended to provide a 20-year Master Plan for implementation of IVHS throughout Orange County. It is also intended to serve as a model for the development of IVHS strategic plans for other regions throughout the country. However, as new technologies are continually developing, and applications of existing technologies are expanding, i
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United States. Federal Transit Administration. Office of Technical Assistance and Safety
1992-04-01
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Participation of the transit community in the development and implementation of the Nation's Transit Planning and Research Program is vital. The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) recognizes this need, and has consulted with national interests in formulating the Department's legislative reauthorization proposal. The resultant Intermodal Surface T
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This report describes an interim assessment of the VAL (Vehicules Automatiques Legers or Light Automated Vehicle) AGT system which is currently under construction in Lille, France, and which is to become fully operational in December 1983. This report contains a technical description and performance data resulting from a demonstration test program
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Four essential aspects of the longitudinal control of vehicles in an automated, individual-vehicle system are considered here: a) Sector-level control; b) Communications between each controlled vehicle and the sector computer; c) The development of techniques for obtaining extremely accurate estimates of a vehicle's state; and d) The control of eac
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