First Responder Interactions with Automated Vehicles: An Identification of Needs and Strategies

Details

• Creators:
  Trefz, Bradley ; Ivie, Ray ; Guzman, Itzel ; Merritt, Jack ; Hwang, William ; Le, Minh ; Perez, Marcy ; Speed, John ; Stoeltje, Gretchen ; Zhou, Hongmin ; Warner, Jeff ; McCollum, Scott ; Miller, Benjamin ; Avolio, Mike ; Crow, Rebecca
• Corporate Creators:
  Texas A&M Transportation Institute ; Texas A&M Engineering Extension Service
• Corporate Contributors:
  Texas Department of Transportation. Research and Technology Implementation Office ; United States. Department of Transportation. Federal Highway Administration
• Subject/TRT Terms:
  • Autonomous vehicles
  • Connected vehicles
  • Crashes
  • Emergency management
  • First responders
  • Incident management
  • Intelligent vehicles
  • Policy, legislation and regulation
  • Towing vehicles
  • Fire fighting
  More +
• Publication/ Report Number:
  FHWA/TX-25/0-7199-R1
• Resource Type:
  Tech Report
• Geographical Coverage:
  United States
• Edition:
  Draft Final Report: September 2023–April 2025
• Corporate Publisher:
  Texas. Department of Transportation
• Description:
  The rapid deployment of automated vehicles presents both opportunities and challenges, especially for first responders tasked with ensuring public safety during emergencies. This research project, led by the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, in partnership with the Texas A&M Engineering Extension, addressed critical needs and strategies for interactions between first responders and automated vehicles. This report details work that led to the development of a first responder guide to automated vehicle interactions and an automated vehicle recognition guide and identifies gaps in knowledge, operational challenges, and policy deficiencies for first responder interactions with automated vehicles. This report is useful for state and federal regulators, automated vehicle developers, first responders, traffic management organizations, local communities, homeland security personnel, and elected officials in the conduct of their duties.
• Format:
  PDF
• Funding:
  Project 0-7199
• Download URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/83536/dot_83536_DS1.pdf
• File Type:
  [PDF - 8.71 MB]
• Collection(s):
  Autonomous Vehicles ; US Transportation Collection
• Main Document Checksum:
  urn:sha-512:c17b3c6471c59ca4f2737a4dc077cbb39fad9d5006a19ef168b61be32e020f2d18d2a6846fd3eeaefa7587bb50af5b781e93a94af4bc543dea918de17e3916d1