Assessing the Effectiveness of the Wyoming Connected Vehicle Pilot Program: New Traffic Safety Research Perspectives
The Wyoming Connected Vehicle (CV) Pilot is developing several applications that utilize Dedicated Short-Range Communication technologies to support a flexible range of services for advisories, roadside alerts, parking notifications, and dynamic travel guidance. The main focus of the CV Pilot Program is to reduce the impact of adverse weather on trucks on Interstate 80 in Wyoming. One of the main tasks in this pilot is to evaluate the performance of the Wyoming CV system. Twenty-one specific performance measures and the target benefits as well as approaches to measure the benefits of the Wyoming CV Pilot were identified by the performance management team. The primary objective of this project is to quantify the safety benefits of the CV pilot using non-traditional approaches. To evaluate the safety benefits of the CV applications, safety performance and microsimulation modeling will be conducted to aid in the evaluation process. Various CV penetration rates and/or CV strategies will be considered when evaluating the system performance.
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $183322
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Contract Numbers:
69A3551747108
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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:
North Dakota State University
Fargo, ND United States 58108 -
Project Managers:
Tolliver, Denver
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Performing Organizations:
Dept. of Civil and Architectural Engineering
University of Wyoming
Laramie, WY United States -
Principal Investigators:
Ahmed, Mohamed
- Start Date: 20190416
- Expected Completion Date: 20240731
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
- Source Data: MPC-598
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Connected vehicles; Dedicated short range communications; Evaluation and assessment; Microsimulation; Performance measurement; Pilot studies; Traffic safety; Truck traffic; Trucking safety; Weather conditions
- Geographic Terms: Wyoming
- Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Freight Transportation; Highways; Motor Carriers; Safety and Human Factors;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01702881
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Mountain-Plains Consortium
- Contract Numbers: 69A3551747108
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Apr 24 2019 2:52PM