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Impacts of Regulations and Policies on CV and AV Technology Introduction in Transit Operations

  • Automated Vehicles
  • Automated vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Planning
  • Planning for Operations
  • Procurement
  • Research
  • Strategic Planning
Connected vehicle (CV) and autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies offer the potential to significantly change public transportation systems and improve the safety, effectiveness, and quality of services. For instance, first- and last-mile AV services could bring riders to line haul modes and significa
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Challenges to CV and AV Application in Truck Freight Operations

  • Automated Vehicles
  • Automated vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Freight Management
  • Freight Technology and Operations
  • Performance Management
  • Planning
  • Planning for Operations
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Research
  • Strategic Planning
The freight industry is essential to the economic vitality of the United States. Trucks carry most of the tonnage and value of freight in the nation, and the American Trucking Associations (ATA) forecasts a 23.5% growth in truck freight tonnage by 2025. This projected growth will put tremendous stre
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Independent Evaluation of Heavy-Truck Safety Applications Based on Vehicle-to-Vehicle and Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications Used in the Safety Pilot Model Deployment

  • Advanced Communications
  • Automated Vehicles
  • Automated vehicles
  • Communications
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Freeway Management
  • Freight Management
  • Freight Management Operations
  • Freight Technology and Operations
  • Organizational Models
  • Other Research Organizations
  • Planning
  • Planning for Operations
  • Project Development Overview
  • Research
  • Scoping
  • Strategic Planning
  • Systems engineering
  • Transit Operations
  • Vehicle Systems/Connected Vehicles
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This report presents the methodology and results of the independent evaluation of heavy trucks (HTs) in the Safety Pilot Model Deployment (SPMD); part of the United States Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems research program. In 2012 the SPMD deployed approximately 2,80
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Characterization Test Procedures for Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems Based on Vehicle-to-Vehicle Communications

  • 2015
  • Active Management and TSMO
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM)
  • Adaptive Signal Control Technology
  • Advanced Communications
  • Advanced Traffic Signal Control
  • Automated Vehicles
  • Automated vehicles
  • Communications
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Other Research Organizations
  • Planning
  • Planning for Operations
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Project Systems Engineering
  • Research
  • System Architecture
  • System Architecture / Engineering
  • Vehicle Systems/Connected Vehicles
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Characterization test procedures have been developed to quantify the performance of intersection collision avoidance (ICA) systems based on vehicle-to-vehicle communications. These systems warn the driver of an imminent crossing-path collision at a road junction, and apply automatic braking if the d
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Vehicle to Infrastructure Deployment Guidance and Products

  • 2015
  • Advanced Communications
  • Automated Vehicles
  • Automated vehicles
  • Communications
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • FHWA
  • Integrated ITS Deployment
  • Planning
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Research
  • Vehicle Systems/Connected Vehicles
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This guidance is intended to assist Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) staff and transportation system owner/operators deploy Vehicle to Infrastructure (V2I) technology not only in terms of the Federal-aid Highway program requirements but also practices to help ensure interoperability and efficie
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Connected Vehicle Infostructure Plan

  • 2012
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Other Research Organizations
  • Planning
  • Private Sector Entities
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Research
  • State DOTs
  • Strategic Planning
  • Vehicle Systems/Connected Vehicles
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The potential deployment of a connected vehicle system will represent new challenges to State DOT’s in terms of delivering an Infostructure which can facilitate these systems and allow for the collection and processing of the vast amount of potential data. Given the potential Notice of Regulatory

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AERIS Webinar: Cleaner Air through Smarter Transportation: State of the Practice Assessments of the AERIS Research Program

  • Advanced Communications
  • Automated Vehicles
  • Automated vehicles
  • Communications
  • Connected Vehicles
  • Connected Vehicles
  • OST ITS JPO
  • Planning
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Research
  • Standards
  • Standards and Interoperability
  • System Architecture
  • System Architecture / Engineering
  • Systems engineering

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This webinar will summarize findings from two state of the practice assessments conducted for the USDOT's AERIS program. The first assessment identified applications that have demonstrated environmental benefits through use of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technol

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Congestion Pricing - A Primer: Effective Approaches to Streamlining Back Office Operations

  • Active Management and TSMO
  • Active Traffic Management (ATM)
  • Active Traffic Management/Travel Demand Management/Pricing
  • FHWA
  • Planning
  • Pricing / Toll Roads
  • Project Development
  • Project Development Overview
  • Research
  • Strategic Planning
  • Traveler Information
  • Traveler Information
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While project managers for congestion pricing strategies and systems are focused on traffic management, technology, toll rates, and design, other critical issues related to operations, policy, and rapidly changing technology tend to arise. In this primer, these challenges are collectively referre

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