Impact of Automated Vehicle External Communication on Other Road User Behavior

Road users communicate with one another in various ways (e.g. hand gestures, eye contact). There is growing concern in the industry about whether highly automated vehicles (HAVs) will be able to communicate intent to other road users in the same ways, and to the same benefits, that a human can. The investigation of potential HAV external communication systems is underway by numerous stakeholders in many countries. There is a desire by many automotive original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) to adopt a common implementation across the automotive industry to prevent road user confusion of signal meaning and maintaining safety on the roadways. While some systems show promise, there remain design parameters that stakeholders cannot agree on and their implications are misunderstood (e.g. location on vehicle, color). This proposed research study will evaluate these HAV external communication design parameters in both static and dynamic settings and from a driver or pedestrian road user perspectives.

• Record URL:
  https://www.vtti.vt.edu/utc/safe-d/index.php/projects/impact-of-automated-vehicle-external-communication-on-other-road-user-behavior/

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $351,557
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747115

• 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:

  Safety through Disruption University Transportation Center (Safe-D)

  Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
  Blacksburg, VA  United States  24060
• Project Managers:

  Glenn, Eric

• Performing Organizations:

  Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

  3500 Transportation Research Plaza
  Blacksburg, Virginia  United States  24061
• Principal Investigators:

  Grove, Kevin

• Start Date: 20200303
• Expected Completion Date: 20210331
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Vulnerable road users
• Subject Areas: Safety and Human Factors;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01741230
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Safety through Disruption University Transportation Center (Safe-D)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747115
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: May 26 2020 11:24PM