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

What Was the Need?

"[Connected Autonomous Vehicles] CAVs and [Shared Autonomous Vehicles] SAVs present impressive opportunities for travelers, consumers, shippers, and system managers—with little to no transportation infrastructure changes. It is important for transportation stakeholders to consider measures that enhance such benefits, while avoiding rising traffic congestion and emissions limiting liability, and maximizing crash reductions, in anticipation of this technology’s implementation."

What's the Solution?

"This project developed and demonstrated a variety of smart-transport technologies, predictions, policies, and practices for Texas highways and freeways using highly automated or fully autonomous vehicles (AVs), connected vehicles (CVs), inertial movement units (IMUs), roadside equipment, and related technologies. The work’s products provide ideas and equipment for more efficient intersection and network operations for connected, autonomous vehicle (CAV) operations, alongside a suite of behavioral and traffic-flow forecasts for Texas regions and networks under a variety of vehicle mixes (smart plus conventional, semi-autonomous versus fully autonomous, connected but not automated, passenger vehicles and heavy trucks). The effort supports proactive policymaking on vehicle and occupant licensing, liability, privacy standards, variable tolling, shared AV (SAV) fleet operations, and mode-choice incentives as technologies become available and travel behaviors change." -Summary Report

Project Number

0-6838

Status

Completed

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Project Details

Start Date

1/16/2015

Renewal date

9/1/2016

End Date

4/6/2018

Performing Institution(s)

Center for Transportation Research (CTR)

Research Team

RS: Kara Kockelman

Sponsor

Project Manager

Darrin Jensen

Contract Specialist

Annette Trevino

Amount Funded

FY15: $698,423
FY16: $746,232
FY17: $599,921
FY18: $933,312

Notes

Innovative Technical Area 3.3
"This research project was ended 5 months early (at month 13 in Phase 2 of this multiphase project, rather than month 18)" --Report 3, page v.

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Functional Area

Strategy and Innovation

Index Terms

Autonomous vehicle guidance
Intelligent vehicles
Smartphones
Technological innovations
Best practices
Dedicated short range communications
Mobile communication systems

Lead University

CTR

Researcher

Kockelman, Kara

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Record Added:

3/12/2015

Record Updated:

7/20/2022 4:30 AM EDT

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