Supporting People with Vision Impairments in Automated Vehicles: Challenges and Opportunities
Autonomous and automated vehicles (AVs) will provide many opportunities for mobility and independence for people with vision impairments (PwVI). This project will provide insights on the challenges and potential barriers to their adoption of AVs. We will examine adoption and use of ridesharing services, which are similar means of single-rider transportation for PwVI, by conducting observations and interviews. Also, we will investigate social receptiveness of sighted people and PwVI towards the use of AVs through focus groups. From these studies, we will be able to provide recommendations to AV manufacturers and suppliers for how to best design vehicles and interactive systems that mitigate barriers that PwVI face.
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Language
- English
Project
- Status: Completed
- Funding: $168,337
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Contract Numbers:
69A3551747105
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Sponsor Organizations:
Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
University Transportation Centers Program
Department of Transportation
Washington, DC United States 20590 -
Managing Organizations:
Center for Connected and Automated Transportation
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
Ann Arbor, MI United States 48109 -
Project Managers:
Tucker-Thomas, Dawn
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Performing Organizations:
University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering
2350 Hayward
Ann Arbor, MI United States 48109-2125 -
Principal Investigators:
Brewer, Robin
- Start Date: 20180201
- Expected Completion Date: 20190830
- Actual Completion Date: 20200605
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
- Subprogram: Research
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Automated guided vehicle systems; Focus groups; Vehicle design
- Identifier Terms: Interactive Highway Safety Design Model
- Subject Areas: Policy; Public Transportation; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01665935
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 69A3551747105
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Apr 12 2018 8:00AM