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Bringing Smart Transport to Texans: Ensuring the Benefits of a Connected and Autonomous Transport System in Texas. Final Report

Report No.:

FHWA/TX-16/0-6838-2

Authors:

Dr. Kara Kockelman with Dr. Stephen Boyles [and twenty two others]

Published:

[2017]

Austin, Texas

University of Texas at Austin. Center for Transportation Research (CTR)

Type:

Hard copy + Disc + Online document

1 volume, 1 CD-ROM (xxiv, 375 pages; 15.7 MB)

Online Access:

https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/ctr-publications/0-...
https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/ctr-publications/0-...

Access Note:

8.7 MB; 15.7 MB

Supplement:

Accompanying CD-ROM "Bringing Smart Transport to Texans: Appendices to Final Report"

Summary

"This project develops and demonstrates a variety of smart-transport technologies, policies, and practices for highways and freeways using connected autonomous vehicles (CAVs), smartphones, roadside equipment, and related technologies. The intent is to maximize the benefit of these technologies in terms of improved driver safety, reduced congestion, and agency cost savings. For example, in a well-implemented system, advanced CAV technologies may reduce current crash costs by at least $390 billion per year. A poorly implemented system could significantly detract from or reverse these benefits. The project's Phase 1, documented in this report, showcased DSRC-instrumented vehicles for wrong-way driving alerts, vehicle guidance, and road-surface condition monitoring demonstrations. It developed algorithms for more accurate vehicle-position information and real-time traffic flow monitoring. It delivered statewide and national forecasts of fleet evolution, consumer preferences, and Texans' opinions of CAV policies and technologies. It also simulated various strategies for smart ramp merges and smart intersection and network operations, under thousands of case settings, with calculated delay reductions. It anticipated emissions savings from more thoughtful automated driving and crash savings from more conflict-aware driving. It also analyzed the benefits of shared autonomous vehicle transit. Recommendations are provided for guiding TxDOT as technologies increasingly become available to the public, estimated to impact the U. S. economy by as much as $1.3 trillion per year. Recommendations focus on the need for increasing TxDOT in-house expertise, simulating new systems, developing policy, and updating design manuals."

Publ. Place

Austin, Texas

Contents

Chapter 1. Introduction and Report Summary --
Chapter 2. Policies for the Evolving Field of Autonomous Vehicles --
Chapter 3. Assessing Public Opinions Regarding Technologies --
Chapter 4. Simulation of Network Dynamics --
Chapter 5. Improvement and Implementation of Dynamic Microtolling --
Chapter 6. Estimating the Safety Benefits of CAV Technologies --
Chapter 7. MOVES Emissions Modeling --
Chapter 8. Anticipating the Regional Impacts of Connected and Automated Vehicle Travel --
Chapter 9. Emerging Transportation Applications --
Chapter 10. Demonstration of Technology: SWRI --
Chapter 11. Demonstration of Technology: CTR --
Chapter 12. Economic Effects of CAVs --
Chapter 13. Concept of Operations (ConOps) --
Chapter 14. Conclusions and Recommendations --
References --
Appendix A: List of All Possible Attendees --
Appendix B: Emails to Obtain Focus Group Participants --
Appendix C: Final List of Focus Group Attendees --
Appendix D: Focus Group Discussion Guide --
Appendix E: Topline Report from Focus Group Consultants --
Appendix F: Surveys Used for Data Collection on Projects 0-6838, 0-6847, and 0-6849 --
Appendix G: Collection of “Guidelines or Model” State Laws (Not Necessarily Enacted) --
Appendix H: Analysis of Product Liability Claims against OEMs in Texas in Car Crashes involving C/AVs --
Appendix I. Expert Survey Questionnaire --
Appendix J. Expert Interview Questions --
Appendix K. Case Law and Statutes

Notes

"Report Date August 2016; Published November 2016"
• Posted for online access January 2017. --cataloger

Study Number

TxDOT Research Project 0-6838

Study Title

Bringing Smart Transport to Texans: Ensuring the Benefit of a Connected and Autonomous Transport System in Texas

Study Sponsor

Lead University

CTR

Print Copy

Collection:

TxDOT/ University Research

Call Number:

6838-2

Copies Owned:

Reference Copy + Loan Copy

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Topics

Intelligent transportation systems
Intelligent vehicles
Mobile communication systems
Technological innovations
Vehicle to infrastructure communications
Vehicle to vehicle communications

Related to

• TxDOT Projects 0-6847 and 0-6849

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Contributors

Kockelman, Kara
Boyles, Stephen Davis, 1982-
Avery, Paul A.
Claudel, Christian
Loftus-Otway, Lisa Dawn
Fagnant, Daniel James
Bansal, Prateek
Levin, Michael W.
Zhao, Yong
Liu, Jun (Ph.D., 2016)
Clements, Lewis M.
Wagner, Wendy (Wendy Elizabeth)
Stewart, Duncan F.
Guni, Sharon
Albert, Michael Joseph
Stone, Peter Herald
Hanna, Josiah P.
Patel, Rahul Anuj
Fritz, Hagen
Choudhary, Tejas
Li, Tianxin
Nichols, Aqshems
Sharma, Kapil
Simoni, Michele Davide

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