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Transportation Research Board | National Academies TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH Number E-C222 July 2017 TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD 2017 EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE OFFICERS Chair: Malcolm Dougherty, Director, California Department of Transportation, Sacramento Vice Chair: Katherine F. Turnbull, Executive Associate Director and Research Scientist, Texas A&M Transportation Institute, College Station Division Chair for NRC Oversight: Susan Hanson, Distinguished University Professor Emerita, School of Geography, Clark University, Worcester, Massachusetts Executive Director: Neil J. Pedersen, Transportation Research Board TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD 2017–2018 TECHNICAL ACTIVITIES COUNCIL Chair: Hyun-A C. Park, President, Spy Pond Partners, LLC, Arlington, Massachusetts Technical Activities Director: Ann M. Brach, Transportation Research Board David Ballard, Senior Economist Gellman Research Associates, Inc., Jenkintown, Pennsylvania, Aviation Group Chair Coco Briseno, Deputy Director, Planning and Modal Programs, California Department of Transportation, Sacramento, State DOT Representative Anne Goodchild, Associate Professor, University of Washington, Seattle, Freight Systems Group Chair George Grimes, CEO Advisor, Patriot Rail Company, Denver, Colorado, Rail Group Chair David Harkey, Director, Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Safety and Systems Users Group Chair Dennis Hinebaugh, Director, National Bus Rapid Transit Institute, University of South Florida Center for Urban Transportation Research, Tampa, Public Transportation Group Chair Bevan Kirley, Research Associate, Highway Safety Research Center, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, Young Members Council Chair D. Stephen Lane, Associate Principal Research Scientist, Virginia Center for Transportation Innovation and Research, Design and Construction Group Chair Ram M. Pendyala, Frederick R. Dickerson Chair and Professor of Transportation, Georgia Institute of Technology, Planning and Environment Group Chair Joseph Schofer, Professor and Associate Dean of Engineering, McCormick School of Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, Illinois, Policy and Organization Group Chair Robert Shea, Senior Deputy Chief Counsel, Pennsylvania Department of Transportation, Legal Resources Group Chair Eric Shen, Director, Southern California Gateway Office, Maritime Administration, Long Beach, California, Marine Group Chair William Varnedoe, Partner, The Kercher Group, Raleigh, North Carolina, Operations and Preservation Group Chair TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CIRCULAR E-C222 Automated Vehicles Symposium 2016 Summary of a Symposium July 21, 2016 Hilton San Francisco Union Square San Francisco, California Cosponsored by Transportation Research Board of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Proceedings Supported by Federal Highway Administration Rapporteur Katherine F. Turnbull Texas A&M Transportation Institute July 2017 Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, D.C. www.TRB.org TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH CIRCULAR E-C222 ISSN 0097-8515 The Transportation Research Board is one of seven programs of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. The mission of the Transportation Research Board is to provide leadership in transportation innovation and progress through research and information exchange, conducted within a setting that is objective, interdisciplinary, and multimodal. The Transportation Research Board is distributing this E-Circular to make the information contained herein available for use by individual practitioners in state and local transportation agencies, researchers in academic institutions, and other members of the transportation research community. The information in this circular was taken directly from the submission of the authors. This document is not a report of the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. 2016 Symposium Executive Committee David Agnew, Hyundai Mobis North America Richard Bishop, Bishop Consulting Richard Cunard, Transportation Research Board Bob Denaro, ITS Consultant Jane Lappin, Toyota Research Institute Jack Pokrzywa, Society of Automotive Engineers Steven Shaldover, University of California PATH Program Lindsay Voss, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Brian Wynne, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Benefactors AutonomouStuff Magna Electronics TASS International Continental Munich Reinsurance Toyota Research Institute dSPACE America, Inc. Velodyne LiDAR German Trade & Invest MyCarDoesWhat Virginia Tech Hyundai Mobis NVIDIA Transportation Institute KVH SAE International WSP–Parsons Brinckerhoff Exhibitors Applus IDIADA PolySync ThorDrive National Robotics Quanergy Systems Transport Simulation Engineering Center Quantum Systems, Inc. Navitar, Inc. SBG Systems Vision Systems Intelligence Taica TRB Staff Richard Cunard, Senior Program Officer, Traffic and Operations Engineer Freda Morgan, Senior Program Associate Transportation Research Board 500 Fifth Street, NW Washington, D.C. www.TRB.org Contents INTRODUCTION Symposium Overview ..................................................................................................................1 Report Organization .....................................................................................................................2 OPENING SESSION Welcome from the Transportation Research Board .....................................................................3 Welcome from the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International ..........................4 Welcome to California .................................................................................................................4 Keynote Address ..........................................................................................................................5 GENERAL SESSION Vehicle Automation Technology Deployment .............................................................................6 Socially Acceptable AI-Based Urban Driving .............................................................................6 Automated, Connected, and Electric Vehicles ............................................................................7 Bringing Autonomous Vehicles into Production: An Automotive Original Equipment Manufacturer Perspective .........................................................................7 Connected–Automated Trucks .....................................................................................................8 Nontechnical Issues ......................................................................................................................10 Ethics of Autonomous Vehicles: Beyond Weird Crash Dilemmas ...........................................10 Are Consumers Ready and Waiting for Automated Vehicles? .................................................11 The Public Safety Case ..............................................................................................................13 Human Factors Recommendations for Highly Automated Driving in the EU Project AdaptIVe ...............................................................................................................14 Policy Development and Automated Vehicles ..........................................................................15 The Traffic Jam of Robots: Implications of Autonomous Vehicles on Trip Making ................17 The Right Role for Autonomous Vehicle Technology in Cities................................................18 Keynote Session ............................................................................................................................20 Transportation Research Board and Transformational Technologies .......................................20 Welcome from the Transportation Research Board ...................................................................21 National Highway Traffic Safety Administration and the Future of Automated Vehicles .......21 GENERAL SESSION International Experience .............................................................................................................23 Connected and Autonomous Vehicles in the United Kingdom .................................................23 European Activities on Connected and Automated Driving: The Present and Beyond—The ADAPTIVE and AUTONET2030 Use Cases ..................................................24 Connected and Automated Driving in The Netherlands: Challenge, Experience and the Declaration of Amsterdam ..........................................................................................26 i-GAME: From Platooning to Cooperative Automated Maneuvering ......................................27 iii CityMobil2: Four Years of Demonstrating Automated Road Transport Systems in European Cities .....................................................................................................28 Drive Sweden: A National Effort for an Automated Transportation System ............................29 Key Enablers: Standards, Safety, and Cybersecurity ..............................................................31 Automated and Connected Transportation Standards: Key to New Vehicle Technologies ..........................................................................................31 Cybersecurity Challenges for Automated Vehicles ...................................................................32 Safety Assurance for Highly Automated Driving: The PEGASUS Approach
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