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PROGRESSIVE DEPLOYMENT STEPS LEADING TOWARD AN AUTOMATED HIGHWAY SYSTEM

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00803823

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Abstract:

The most serious challenge to the credibility of highway automation as a potential solution to transportation problems has been the lack of a convincing deployment strategy. Such a strategy is needed to show how to advance, step by step, from today's transportation system to a future system that includes automated highway systems (AHSs). The existing literature on AHS deployment is reviewed, and a set of principles that can be used to govern the design of AHS deployment strategies is suggested. A deployment sequence for AHSs is proposed, beginning with adaptive cruise control and then adding elements of vehicle-vehicle cooperation and lane protection to build toward AHS capabilities within the constraints of technological and human factors and economic feasibility. Finally, some example deployment "road maps" are shown for transit buses, heavy trucks, and light-duty passenger vehicles.

Supplemental Notes:

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1727, Advanced Traffic Management Systems and Automated Highway Systems 2000.

Language:

English

Corporate Authors:

Transportation Research Board

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Authors:

Shladover, Steven E

Pagination:

p. 154-161

Publication Date:

2000

Serial:

Transportation Research Record

Issue Number: 1727
Publisher: Transportation Research Board
ISSN: 0361-1981

ISBN:

0309067340

Features:

Figures (3) ; References (18)

Subject Areas:

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Files:

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Created Date:

Dec 6 2001 12:00AM

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