Enhanced Work Zone Safety through Cooperative Autonomous Vehicle Systems

Despite improvements in work zone safety, injuries and fatalities remain a significant problem for work zone personnel. Crew and vehicles are often protected with the use of a vehicle located at the rear of the work zone, which is fitted with a mechanism to attenuate the impact energy of a vehicle. This vehicle, called an impact attenuation, or crash cushion, vehicle, is designed and placed to be struck by any errant vehicles; however, this vehicle is an active part of the work crew and is often manned by a member of the work crew, and this person can still be injured or killed when the vehicle is struck. This paper will present recent work by the Southwest Research Institute (SwRI) in conjunction with the Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) to replace this manned vehicle with a fully-autonomous vehicle, capable of communicating with other vehicles in the work crew, traffic management systems, and, using visual recognition techniques, follow other vehicles in the crew or even respond to arm gestures by a member of the work crew.

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  https://doi.org/10.1109/ICCVE.2014.7297701
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• Authors:
  • Brown, Michael
  • Avery, Paul
  • Sturgeon, Purser
• Conference:
  • 2014 International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE)
  • Location: Vienna , Austria
  • Date: 2014-11-3 to 2014-11-7
• Publication Date: 2015

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Web
• Features: References;
• Pagination: pp 966-967
• Monograph Title: 2014 International Conference on Connected Vehicles and Expo (ICCVE)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Crash cushions; Energy absorption; Fatalities; Highway traffic control; Road crews; Work zone safety; Work zone traffic control
• Identifier Terms: Texas Department of Transportation
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01617164
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 9781479967308
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 21 2016 1:42PM