Developing Emerging Transportation Technologies in Texas

Texas’ 83rd Legislature charged Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) with examining and evaluating innovative transportation technologies for purposes of cost savings, reducing traffic congestion, enhancing safety, and increasing economic productivity. As a result, the Texas Transportation Task Force was formed encompassing a group of experts who discussed four groups of emerging transportation technologies including connected vehicles, autonomous vehicles, electric systems, and cloud computing/crowdsourcing technologies. A report of findings is provided from the Task Force’s assessment of each of these technologies using a four-stage process. The first stage sought to understand technology development phases as each technology progressed from prototyping to public road testing to initial deployment and commercialization. The second stage assessed current and near-term (2018) technology maturity development from the perspective of both TxDOT and potential consumers. While the first two stages focused on these technologies as stand-alone technologies, the final two stages provided an assessment of them as standalone and combined technologies to discover synergistic effects and potential benefits and new systems that could be enabled. The third stage evaluated how individual joint technologies could serve Texas’ statewide goals, and the fourth stage provided an evaluation of issues and concerns for each technology or joint technology as they progressed through development stages. Finally, the Task Force developed a preliminary short- and long-term vision for these technologies in Texas, which includes a menu of options for testing and implementation of new technologies.

• Record URL:
  https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/ctr-publications/0-6803-1.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  https://library.ctr.utexas.edu/Presto/catalogid=32260
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Project Title: Technology Task Force. Report date August 2013; revised October 2013; published December 2013.
• Corporate Authors:

  University of Texas, Austin

  Center for Transportation Research, 1616 Guadalupe Street
  Austin, TX  United States  78701-1255

  Texas Department of Transportation

  Research and Technology Implementation Office, P.O. Box 5080
  Austin, TX  United States  78763-5080

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Jin, Peter J
  • Fagnant, Dan
  • Hall, Andrea
  • Walton, C M
  • Hockenyos, Jon
  • Krusee, Mike
• Publication Date: 2013-12

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Technical Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 67p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated vehicle control; Cloud computing; Crowdsourcing; Electric vehicle charging; Electric vehicles; Evaluation and assessment; Implementation; Intelligent transportation systems; ITS program technologies; Mobile communication systems; Technological innovations; Technology assessment; Testing
• Geographic Terms: Texas
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01502029
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA/TX-13/0-6803-1, 0-6803-1
• Contract Numbers: 0-6803
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Dec 23 2013 7:53AM