Safety
Safety is and always will be the top priority of CAV technologies. Despite significant advancements in technology over the past two decades, it is widely acknowledged that autonomous vehicles (AVs) still have a safety performance that falls considerably short of that exhibited by the average human driver. CCAT focuses its safety-based research from three distinct perspectives. First, the development and demonstration of safety validation methodologies for AVs, encompassing both functional safety testing and behavioral safety testing. Secondly, the expeditious deployment of V2X (vehicle-to-everything) technology, taking into account the FCC Ruling that designates 30MHz of safety spectrum for transportation applications. This is particularly crucial in the realm of safeguarding vulnerable road users (VRUs). Lastly, the development and demonstration of CAV deployment in the Midwest, which entails navigating winter driving conditions in urban areas and year-round driving in rural regions.
Research Focusing on Safety
| Autonomous Vehicle Challenges for the US Rural Midwest |
| Principal Investigator(s): Rajesh Rajamani Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Equity |
| Balancing Safety, Cyber-Security, and Mobility: Quantifying the Impact of Sensor Redundancy in Connected and Automated Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator(s): Neda Masoud Research Focus: Safety, Cybersecurity |
| COVERT: Cognitive Internet of Vulnerable Road Users in Traffic |
| Principal Investigator(s): Carol Menassa & Vineet Kamat Research Focus: Safety, Mobility |
| Driving Simulation Insights for High-Speed AV Operations and Human-Machine Interactions |
| Principal Investigator(s): Samuel Labi & Kumares Sinha Research Focus: Safety |
| Economical Acquisition of Intersection Data to Facilitate CAV Operations Phase II – Implementation |
| Principal Investigator(s): James Krogmeier & Samuel Labi Research Focus: Safety |
| Generating High-Accuracy Transportation Datasets with Unmanned Aerial Vehicles |
| Principal Investigator(s): Gabor Orosz Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Equity |
| Hardening the CAV Ecosystem to Reduce Cybersecurity Risks – Year One |
| Principal Investigator(s): Zhi-Li Zhang, Z. Morley Mao, & Yiheng Feng Research Focus: Cybersecurity, Safety |
| Impact of Modularized Autonomous Vehicles on Transit System Design and Operations |
| Principal Investigator(s): Marco Nie Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Equity |
| Making CAV Deployments Compatible with Complete Streets Objectives |
| Principal Investigator(s): Hani Mahmassani Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Equity |
| Meeting the Dual Aspirations of Flow Efficiency and Equity in Urban Traffic in Connected Sustainable Cities: A Systematic, Coherent Approach |
| Principal Investigator(s): Hani Mahmassani Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Equity |
| 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 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, Equity |
| 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): Lisa Molnar & Ping Yi Research Focus: Safety, Mobility, Equity |
| Prediction of Pavement Damage under Truck Platoons Utilizing a Combined Finite Element and Artificial Intelligence Models |
| Principal Investigator(s): Imad Al-Qadi Research Focus: Safety |
| Prototyping a Low-cost Roadside Device System for Cooperative Automated Driving |
| Principal Investigator(s): Yang Cheng, Bin Ran, & Steven Parker 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, Equity |
| Smart Construction Work-Zone Safety with ADAS and Passive Road Sensing |
| Principal Investigator(s): Jeffery Roesler Research Focus: Safety |
| Using Connected Intelligent Transportation to Enhance Vulnerable Road User Safety |
| Principal Investigator(s): Sikai Chen, Sue Ahn, & David Noyce Research Focus: Safety, Equity |
| Using Connected Intelligent Transportation to Enhance Vulnerable Road User Safety: Phase II Real-world Testing and Deployment |
| Principal Investigator(s): Sikai Chen Research Focus: Safety, Equity |
