Mobility
CCAT advocates for the implementation of new infrastructure to accommodate vehicles with advanced levels of automation. This may entail making adjustments to the existing physical infrastructure and establishing a sophisticated digital infrastructure to facilitate the operation of connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs), especially in complex traffic scenarios. CCAT explores and develops cooperative driving automation (CDA) applications, which can effectively alleviate both recurrent and non-recurrent traffic congestion on highways and major roads. Additionally, CCAT is keen on investigating the tradeoffs between the benefits and costs of individual sensing versus cooperative sensing for CAVs. The research findings from these proposed initiatives will offer timely support to government agencies in formulating policies that guide the development and deployment of CDA.
Research Focusing on Mobility
| A Low-cost Roadside Device System for Cooperative Automated Driving Phase 2: Work Zone Safety Applications |
| Principal Investigator(s): Steven Parker & Bin Ran Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Accelerating Deployment of MAP and SPaT Information Distribution Using Executable Designs |
| Principal Investigator(s): James Krogmeier & Samuel Labi Research Focus: Cybersecurity, Mobility |
| Addressing Safety and Security Challenges in ML-based AV Software Stack – Remote Operation Support and Balancing Trade-offs |
| Principal Investigator(s): Z. Morley Mao & Yiheng Feng Research Focus: Safety, Cybersecurity, Mobility |
| Addressing Spatial Mismatch in Labor and Transportation Access with Connected Automated Shuttles to Meet the Needs of Low-Income Populations |
| Principal Investigator(s): Amanda Blomberg Stathopoulos Research Focus: Mobility, Accessibility |
| Automatic Signal Retiming for Large Scale Networks with Vehicle Trajectory Data |
| Principal Investigator(s): Henry Liu Research Focus: Mobility |
| Autonomous Vehicle Challenges for the US Rural Midwest |
| Principal Investigator(s): Rajesh Rajamani Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Accessibility |
| Bridging the Gap Between Theory and Implementation for CAV-Based Mixed Traffic Smoothing |
| Principal Investigator(s): Raphael Stern & Ziran Wang Research Focus: Mobility |
| CAV Pilot Development and Deployment in Midwest Winter |
| Principal Investigator(s): Ziran Wang Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Accessibility |
| Centralized Junction Control of Offset Intersections for CAV Platoons |
| Principal Investigator(s): Ping Yi Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Cost Benefit Analysis of an Infrastructure-Vehicle Cooperative Perception System |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yiheng Feng, Ziran Wang, & Andrew Tarko Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| COVERT: Cognitive Internet of Vulnerable Road Users in Traffic |
| Principal Investigator(s): Carol Menassa & Vineet Kamat Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Effectiveness of Inductive Vehicle Charging to Alleviate EV Range Anxiety |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yafeng Yin & Sina Bahrami Research Focus: Mobility |
| End-to-End Learning Framework for Transportation Network Equilibrium Modeling |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yafeng Yin Research Focus: Mobility |
| Evaluation of Vehicle Telematics and Infrastructure-based Connected Vehicle Data for Real-Time Safety and Mobility Application |
| Principal Investigator(s): Xiaopeng Li, Pei Li, & Chengyuan Ma Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Examining Driver Hand-off and Take-over of AVs at J-turn Intersections |
| Principal Investigator(s): Nichole Morris & Katelyn Schwieters Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Generating High-Accuracy Transportation Datasets with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator(s): Gabor Orosz Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Accessibility |
| Impact of Modularized Autonomous Vehicles on Transit System Design and Operations |
| Principal Investigator(s): Marco Nie Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Accessibility |
| Improving Traffic Safety through Quantification of Road Network Hydroplaning Risks |
| Principal Investigator(s): Imad Al-Qadi & Yanfeng Ouyang Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Lessons from High-speed Level-5 AV Racing |
| Principal Investigator(s): Samuel Labi Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Making CAV Deployments Compatible with Complete Streets Objectives for Safe and Efficient Operation — Phase I |
| Principal Investigator(s): Hani Mahmassani Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Accessibility |
| Making CAV Deployments Compatible with Complete Streets Objectives for Safe and Efficient Operation — Phase II |
| Principal Investigator(s): Hani Mahmassani Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Accessibility |
| Making CAV Deployments Compatible with Complete Streets Objectives for Safe and Efficient Operation — Phase III |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yu (Marco) Nie Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Methodologies for Monitoring Work Zone Performance Measures across State Border Highways Using Connected Vehicle Data |
| Principal Investigator(s): Darcy Bullock Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Optimizing Electric Vehicle Charging Station Locations: Exploring Grover’s Quantum Search Algorithm |
| Principal Investigator(s): Alireza Talebpour Research Focus: Mobility, Accessibility |
| Optimizing Investments in Design, Maintenance, and Operations of Transportation Infrastructure to Capitalize on the Promise of Connected Automated Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator(s): Pablo Luis Durango-Cohen Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Accessibility |
| Optimizing Operation of Diverging Diamond Interchange with Automated Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator(s): Ping Yi Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Planning and Dynamic Management of Autonomous Modular Mobility Services |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yanfeng Ouyang Research Focus: Mobility |
| Practice-Ready Guidelines for Training Older Adults to Use Connected and Automated Vehicles: Testing of an Enhanced Training Program at Mcity Test Facility and the Goodyear Test Track |
| Principal Investigator(s): David W. Eby & Ping Yi Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Accessibility |
| Precise Connected Automated Vehicle Motion Planning with V2I Passive System |
| Principal Investigator(s): Jeffery Roesler & Alireza Talebpour Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Prototyping a Low-cost Roadside Device System for Cooperative Automated Driving |
| Principal Investigator(s): Steven Parker & Bin Ran Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Roadway Friction Screening and Measurement with Automated Vehicle Telematics and Control |
| Principal Investigator(s): Xiaopeng Li, Yanfeng Ouyang, & Heye Huang Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Roundabout Connected/Automated Vehicle Active Inference Control Strategies to Improve Safety for All Users |
| Principal Investigator(s): Vassilios Morellas & Ted Morris Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Accessibility |
| Safe and Personalized Control of Autonomous Vehicles with On-Board Vision Language Models: System Design and Real-World Validation |
| Principal Investigator(s): Ziran Wang Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Safe and Trustworthy Human-Centered Mobility: Leveraging Foundation Models and Digital Twins for Vulnerable Road User-Vehicle Interactions |
| Principal Investigator(s): Sikai Chen Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Toward Ubiquitous Trajectory-Based Traffic Network Diagnosis Systems |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yafeng Yin & Henry Liu Research Focus: Mobility |
| Towards an Efficient Robotaxi Deployment |
| Principal Investigator(s): Sina Bahrami, Siqian Shen, Yu (Marco) Nie, & Yafeng Yin Research Focus: Mobility |
| Towards Safe and Efficient Autonomous Driving: A Synergistic Approach with Human Expertise and Multimodal Large Language Models |
| Principal Investigator(s): Sikai Chen & Yiheng Feng Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Traffic Control based on CARMA Platform for Maximal Traffic Mobility and Safety |
| Principal Investigator(s): Xiaopeng Li & David Noyce Research Focus: Mobility |
| V2I Road Sensing for Connected Automated Vehicle Maneuvering in Rural Communities |
| Principal Investigator(s): Jeffery Roesler & Alireza Talebpour Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
