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Autonomous Delivery Vehicle as a Disruptive Technology: How to Shape the Future with a Focus on Safety?

项目名称：	Autonomous Delivery Vehicle as a Disruptive Technology: How to Shape the Future with a Focus on Safety?
摘要：	The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA) recently granted permission to deploy low-speed autonomous delivery vehicles (ADVs). Unlike conventional low-speed vehicles, these ADVs are designed to have no human occupants and they operate exclusively using an automated driving system. However, extensive safety-related issues of these vehicles have not been examined. With the enormous growth of e-commerce, light deliveries have increased tremendously in the last few years. Additionally, the ongoing pandemic COVID-19 clearly indicates the quintessential need for a human-less delivery system. To make these delivery systems effective, it is critically important to perform a rigorous investigation of the associated safety issues. The goal of this project is to examine the safety-critical issues associated with ADVs. The main research questions include: What are the existing capabilities of ADVs in terms of safety? Are ADVs safe compared to conventional delivery vehicles? How can we determine the safety performance measures of the ADVs? What measures are needed to be considered for safe deployments of ADVs? This research involves conducting a review of the literature; gathering and integrating several datasets such as aggregated ADV trips and trajectories, ADV incidents, demographic data, crash, roadway, and traffic data, and crowdsourced data from multiple sources; performing rigorous analysis to determine the safety effects of ADVs and developing a decision support tool to provide contexts of potential deployment zones for ADVs.
状态：	Active
资金：	803700
资助组织：	Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology
项目负责人：	Glenn, Eric Zachary
执行机构：	Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)<==>Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
开始时间：	20210110
预计完成日期：	20230531
主题领域：	Freight Transportation；Highways；Safety and Human Factors；Vehicles and Equipment