Using Driving Simulator Environment to Determine Interactions Between User Behavior and Infrastructure Design Under Autonomous Vehicles

This study will use immersive driving simulator environments in conjunction with stated preference surveys to analyze the interactions between user behavior and infrastructure design changes under AVs while factoring emerging trends of shared-mobility services, electrification, and the promotion of sustainable transportation modes (such as mass transit, biking and walking). A road network corridor in Atlanta, GA will provide the immersive driving simulator environment, with the current road infrastructure design and human-driven vehicles (HDVs) representing the base case. Thereafter, modifications to the infrastructure design to reflect AVs, shared-mobility services, electrification and sustainable transportation modes will be used to analyze users’ door-to-door travel choices under route navigation. The study will factor benefits in terms of safety, mobility, and emissions reduction with costs of electrification and autonomy from users’ perspective to understand how users would respond to different infrastructure designs, and how infrastructure designs can be used to influence user behavior under AVs. The study insights will be used to develop guidelines that can aid state and local transportation agencies to develop near- and medium-term infrastructure design modifications to enable efficient, smooth transition to an AV future that additionally factors other emerging transportation-related trends.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Completed
• Funding: $462,182 (CCAT: $231,091; CS GATech: $231,091)
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747105

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Department of Transportation

  Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  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

• Performing Organizations:

  Purdue University, Lyles School of Civil Engineering

  550 Stadium Mall Drive
  West Lafayette, IN  United States  47907
• Principal Investigators:

  Peeta, Sninivas

• Start Date: 20190101
• Expected Completion Date: 20220930
• Actual Completion Date: 20240102
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
• Subprogram: Research

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous land vehicles; Autonomous vehicles; Behavior; Driving simulators; Local transportation; Navigation systems; Shared mobility; Sustainable transportation; Transportation modes
• Subject Areas: Policy; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Transportation (General); Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01742712
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Center for Connected and Automated Transportation
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747105
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Jun 18 2020 10:45AM