Infusing Sustainability into Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
This proposed project will focus on addressing safety, sustainability, and equity dimensions in CAV manufacturing and deployment. It will review the security issues, types of cyberattacks, and security approaches in specific types of V2X communications focusing on how cybersecurity plays a role in ensuring the security of the traffic control applications and enabling technologies being developed by CCAT. The project will make recommendations on appropriate cybersecurity approaches needed for specific CCAT applications. It will aid in the design of inclusive cyber security infrastructures in CAVs enabling low-income population and under-represented minorities to gain access to the technology while reducing transportation-related disparities during the development and deployment phases. The project will address several research gaps in understanding how connected and autonomous vehicles would lower the impacts from climate change. It will address conflicting factors such as minimizing carbon footprint, aggravation of environmental impacts and depletion of natural resources due to the expansion of CAVs and reduction of conventional fossil-based automobiles. It will study the role renewable energy plays in CAV manufacturing. The project will also investigate any disproportionate impacts on minorities from climate change or relief in transitioning from fossil-fuel-based automobiles to CAVs.
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Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $100000
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Contract Numbers:
69A3552348305
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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:
University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
2901 Baxter Road
Ann Arbor, Michigan United States 48109 -
Project Managers:
Stearns, Amy
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Performing Organizations:
Central State University
111 C.J. McLin Center
1400 Brush Row Road
Wilberforce, OH United States 45384-1004 -
Principal Investigators:
Nedunuri, Krishnakumar
Kandiah, Ramanitharan
Cao, Deng
Perdomo, Edison
- Start Date: 20231201
- Expected Completion Date: 20241130
- Actual Completion Date: 0
- USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers
Subject/Index Terms
- TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Climate change mitigation; Computer security; Connected vehicles; Equity; Minorities; Renewable energy sources; Safety; Sustainable transportation
- Subject Areas: Energy; Environment; Highways; Safety and Human Factors; Society; Vehicles and Equipment;
Filing Info
- Accession Number: 01906132
- Record Type: Research project
- Source Agency: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation
- Contract Numbers: 69A3552348305
- Files: UTC, RIP
- Created Date: Jan 26 2024 4:54PM