Development and Performance Evaluation of AVCSS Deployment Sequences to Advance from Today�??s Driving Environment to Full Automation

This report presents the findings of its investigation into deployment sequences to better understand the paths that could be taken from today's driving environment to vehicle-highway automation. Initially, targets of opportunity were identified for accelerating progress toward highway automation, taking account of the operational constraints. Next, after reviewing existing literature on automated highway systems deployment, a set of principles to govern the design of deployment strategies is suggested followed by proposed deployment sequences for automated highway systems, beginning with adaptive cruise control and then adding elements of vehicle-vehicle cooperation and lane protection to build toward automated highway systems capabilities within constraints of technological, human factors and economic feasibility. A general deployment staging sequence is then presented along with example deployment "roadmaps" shown for transit buses, heavy trucks and light-duty passenger vehicles. Finally, we discuss the findings of our modeling and evaluation work for the beginning stages of a specific deployment sequence for light-duty passenger vehicles in the setting of a single highway lane. This sequence incorporates the use of cooperative adaptive cruise control along with conventional or autonomous adaptive cruise control and manual-driven vehicles. The evaluation assesses the impact of each of these three operational driving modes on traffic flow dynamics and highway capacity as well as of increasing proportions of both autonomous and cooperative adaptive cruise control vehicles relative to manually driven vehicles.

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  http://escholarship.org/uc/item/33w2d55j.pdf
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  • Publication Date: August 2001. California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies University of California, Berkeley CA. Remarks: Also available on the World Wide Web at http://www.path.berkeley.edu/PATH/Publications/PATH/index.html. Format: website
• Corporate Authors:

  University of California, Berkeley

  California PATH Program, Institute of Transportation Studies
  Richmond Field Station, 1357 South 46th Street
  Richmond, CA  United States  94804-4648

  California Department of Transportation

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• Authors:
  • Shladover, Steven E
  • VanderWerf, Joel
  • Miller, Mark A
  • Kourjanskaia, Natalia
  • Krishnan, Hariharan
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Pagination: xiii, 67 p.
• Serial:
  • PATH Research Report
  • Publisher: University of California, Berkeley
  • ISSN: 1055-1425

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced vehicle control systems; Automated highway systems; Autonomous intelligent cruise control; Traffic flow
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00821776
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: UC Berkeley Transportation Library
• Report/Paper Numbers: UCB-ITS-PRR-2001-18
• Files: PATH, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Dec 31 2001 12:00AM