Necessary Infrastructure Accommodations for Automated Trucks and Truck Platoons

This project is intended to get a clearer understanding of key topics including the infrastructure needed to adopt autonomous trucking and platooning as well as the status of the industry itself. The advancement of autonomous technology offers benefits such as the ability to mitigate the shortage of drivers, lower fuel consumption, and lower emissions released. However, the technology to make driverless trucks a reality requires US roads to be modified in order for the two to exchange information. Another challenge is the changing industry, from start-ups dissolving, technological advancement, and news of incidents involving autonomous vehicles, it becomes a question of when driverless trucks will enter the roads and how it is going to be received by the public. TTI researchers will identify and survey the appropriate stakeholders to gather information pertaining to specific infrastructure needs, challenges, solutions, and economic and policy considerations.

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $150000
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3552344813

• 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:

  National Center for Infrastructure Transformation

  Prairie View A&M University
  Prairie View, TX  United States  77446
• Performing Organizations:

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System
  3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135
• Principal Investigators:

  Morgan, Curtis

  Prieto, Bill

• Start Date: 20230901
• Expected Completion Date: 20250228
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program
• Source Data: 01-16-TTI

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Autonomous vehicles; Infrastructure; Traffic platooning; Transportation planning; Truck traffic; Trucks
• Subject Areas: Highways; Motor Carriers; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Vehicles and Equipment;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01893183
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: National Center for Infrastructure Transformation
• Contract Numbers: 69A3552344813
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 13 2023 1:56PM