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Automated Vehicles and the Built Environment: An Interactive Workshop

Automated Vehicles and the Built Environment: An Interactive WorkshopInstructor: Caroline Rodier, Institute of Transportation Studies, University of California, Davis (ITS-Davis)

Automated vehicle technology holds the potential to revolutionize mobility. How and when this revolution might take place is subject to uncertainties related to technological feasibility, consumer perceptions, and institutional barriers.

Automated Vehicles are Expected to Increase Driving and Emissions Without Policy Intervention

Research Product Type

Policy Brief

Researchers explored what a future with automated vehicles in the San Francisco Bay Area might look like by simulating effects on travel and emissions.

Autonomous Vehicle Policies Must Be Flexible to Support Deployment in Rural Regions

Research Product Type

Policy Brief

Researchers reviewed the existing literature on autonomous vehicles (AVs) in shared and private ownership scenarios and assessed the benefits inherent to AVs (regardless of ownership model) as well as of the benefits and challenges of AV-sharing in rural areas relative to urban areas.

Capitol Hill Research Briefing: Driverless, Shared, Electric: The Three Transportation Revolutions

This timely briefing presented research insights from leading experts on key topics in transportation, and identified strategies for realizing the potential of the 3 Revolutions in transportation – vehicle sharing, electrification and automation – while minimizing adverse impacts.

Carlos Otero Advances Freight Research

by Anna R Espitallier
January 23, 2020

Education

Meet University of California, Davis Ph.D. candidate in Civil and Environmental Engineering, Carlos Otero.

Centrally Coordinated Schedules and Routes of Airport Shuttles with LAX Terminals as Application Area

Principal Investigator Petros Ioannou, Ph.D.
University of Southern California

The purpose of this project is to develop a CENtrally COordinated Shuttle system (CENCOS) which can effectively coordinate airport shuttle schedules and routes in order to minimize curb congestion at the pick-up and drop-off points, reduce operational cost, improve quality of service with considerable benefits to mobility and environment.

Project Status

Complete

Centrally Coordinated Schedules and Routes of Airport Shuttles with LAX Terminals as Application Area

Research Product Type

Research Report

In this project, the authors developed a centrally coordinated shuttle scheduling and routing management system for mixed fleets of diesel and electric shuttles using a digital twin of LAX to LA downtown traffic road network by optimizing the total combined cost of energy consumption and travel time.

Consideration of Automated Vehicle Benefits and Research Needs for Rural America

Research Product Type

Research Report

This paper examines mechanisms for autonomous vehicle-induced increases in vehicle miles traveled (VMT) – some of which are expected to have a disproportionately larger impact on rural VMT – and outlines five methods that have been used to study VMT changes: travel demand equalization; travel demand elasticity; travel demand models; and stated and revealed preference surveys.

Data-Driven Analysis for Disturbance Amplification in Car-Following Behavior of Automated Vehicles

Research Product Type

Associated Publication

This paper presents a data-driven framework to analyze the disturbance amplification behavior of automated vehicles in car-following.

Dataset: Automated Vehicles and Central Business District Parking: the Effects of Drop-off-Travel on Traffic Flow and Vehicle Emissions

Research Product Type

Data

This data stems from a project in which researchers used a microscopic road traffic model with local travel activity data to simulate vehicle travel in San Francisco’s downtown central business district to explore traffic flow, VMT, and GHG effects of AV scenarios.