Identification of Railroad Requirements for the Future Automated and Connected Vehicle (AV/CV) Environment
| dc.contributor.author | Morgan, Curtis A. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Warner, Jeffery E. | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Lee, Dahye | en |
| dc.contributor.author | Florence, David | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2020-07-02T18:40:39Z | en |
| dc.date.available | 2020-07-02T18:40:39Z | en |
| dc.date.issued | 2020-06 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | The Federal Rail Administration (FRA) Highway-Rail Grade Crossing Inventory database from 2019 states that there are approximately 127,000 public, at-grade highway-rail grade crossings in the U.S. Despite this large number of direct intersections between the public highway and largely private rail systems, little current intelligent transport systems automated/connected vehicle (AV/CV) research is focused on how to incorporate the railroad system and its operations effectively into future roadway AV/CV system planning. This initial scanning project examined how transportation agencies, engineering firms, researchers, and other highway system stakeholders designing future AV/CV systems could best consider freight and passenger railroad operational and infrastructure needs in the development of future AV/CV system architecture. The project explored the following: •Information/data requirements for roadway vehicles to operate effectively near rail crossings. •Impediments to collecting and exchanging rail operations data between public roadway agencies, publiccommuter/transit rail systems, and the largely private freight rail operators. •Potential AV/CV implementation approaches near rail system assets that could benefit both systems. •Critical, necessary additional research efforts in both the short- and long-term to address future jointrailroad/highway AV/CV architecture challenges. | en |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/10919/99229 | en |
| dc.language.iso | en | en |
| dc.publisher | SAFE-D: Safety Through Disruption National University Transportation Center | en |
| dc.relation.ispartofseries | SAFE-D;02-019 | en |
| dc.rights | CC0 1.0 Universal | en |
| dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/ | en |
| dc.subject | automation | en |
| dc.subject | highway-railgrade crossing | en |
| dc.subject | safety | en |
| dc.subject | automated vehicles | en |
| dc.subject | connected vehicles | en |
| dc.title | Identification of Railroad Requirements for the Future Automated and Connected Vehicle (AV/CV) Environment | en |
| dc.type | Report | en |
| dc.type.dcmitype | Text | en |