Northeast Autonomous Vehicle Summit WelcomeTown Hall to Panel the Saxton 1 Transportation Operations Laboratory GWUU.S. Students! DOT Smart City Challenge
April 15, 2014 Dale Thompson, FHWA, Office of Operations Research & Development Turner Fairbank Highway Research Center . Research Capabilities – 20+ labs, 110 Federal, 175 contractors – National Research Fellows, visiting researchers . Research Funding – $100M per year Exploratory Advanced Research
Status . Solicitations: 8 . Projects awarded: 75; Active 31 – $76 M Federal – $29 M Match
Focus Areas . Connected highway systems . Human behavior and travel choices . Breakthrough concepts in material science . Technology for assessing performance . New technology and advanced policies for energy and resource conservation 3 Operations Focus Areas
Enabling Technologies Concepts and Analysis
Linking Testbeds to Living Laboratories
Operations Applications
4 Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) Research
CACC A Story About Progress Credit: USDOT GlidePath Prototype Application
. Test examines the environmental and fuel economy benefits of partial- automation on a Ford Escape Hybrid – Overrides human longitudinal control, allowing the vehicle to travel at optimum speed to proceed through an intersection without stopping at red lights – Connected Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) technology combined with partial automation . The Result: 22% fuel economy improvement with partial automation versus 7% with manual driving . Next phase of research will test the application in multi-intersection environments
Credit: USDOT Tech Timeline
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Information & Communications SMART CITY Internet of Things Technology
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Photo: Pixabay The Smart City Challenge
. Encourage cities to put forward their best and most creative ideas for innovatively addressing the challenges they are facing.
. Demonstrate how advanced data and intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies and applications can be used to reduce congestion, keep travelers safe, protect the environment, respond to climate change, connect underserved communities, and support economic vitality. USDOT Vision Elements The Smart City Challenge SMARTCOLUMBUS
Source: The City of Columbus Integrated Data Exchange (IDE)
Non- Data from Transportation Transportation Smart COLUMBUS Data Sources Data Sources Program
Integrated Data Exchange (IDE)
Private App Public Private Independent Developers Sector Sector Evaluators
Source: The City of Columbus Resources / To Learn More
RESOURCES FHWA Office of Operations: – FHWA Office of Operations Website: http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/ – Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center Website: http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/research/tfhrc/offices/operations/ ITS-JPO: – Automated Vehicles: https://www.its.dot.gov/automated_vehicle/ – CV Pilots: https://www.its.dot.gov/presentations/egan_smith/FutureTra nsportationCV-AV.pdf – Research Data Exchange: https://www.its-rde.net/ Smart City Challenge: – Finalist Cities & Applications: https://www.transportation.gov/smartcity/7-finalists-cities/ Contact: – Advanced Technology Grants: Dale Thompson https://www.transportation.gov/Briefing-Room/Advanced- [email protected] Technology-Transportation-Projects/ – Smart City Challenge Resource Guide: https://www.transportation.gov/smartcity/otherfunding/ CACC: – Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2- WoV8nKQUE