Smart Vehicles, Smart Signals, Smart Cities : How Cyber Physical Systems Can Foster Traffic Synergy : [fact sheet]

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• Corporate Creators:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Contributor:
  McHale, Gene M. ; Vadakpat, Govind
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Intelligent vehicles
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA-HRT-18-032;HRTM-30/06-18(WEB)E
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Corporate Publisher:
  United States. Federal Highway Administration
• Description:
  As America’s urban population multiplies, so does the number of cars on city streets. The resulting congestion can contribute to increased or unreliable travel time. For its 2016 Urban Congestion Trends report, the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) calculated the hours of congestion in 52 of the largest U.S. metropolitan areas at 4:43 hours, up from 4:22 hours 5 years earlier, as noted in the 2011 Urban Congestion Trends report. The emergence of highly automated vehicles could help improve urban mobility if the cars can be safely integrated into cyber physical systems (CPS) that also include technologically advanced traffic signals and road sensors. In partnership with the National Science Foundation (NSF), the Exploratory Advanced Research (EAR) Program at FHWA is supporting three research projects with applications of CPS for highway transportation to understand how to scale public benefits of new technologies. Arizona State University and Ohio State University are working together on one of the projects, while the University of California (UC)–Berkeley and the University of Florida are separately conducting the other two.
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  PDF
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/37557/dot_37557_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 264.93 KB]
• Collection(s):
  Federal Highway Administration
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