Trucking Fleet Concept of Operations for Automated Driving System-equipped Commercial Motor Vehicles

The primary goals of the CONOPS project were to: i) collect information and practices on how to safely integrate ADS-equipped CMVs into the U.S. road transportation system; ii) provide the USDOT with data; iii) demonstrate how to integrate and deploy ADS-equipped trucks in a productive and cooperative way into the existing road freight ecosystem; and iv) collaborate with a broad and diverse group that includes government entities, university and research institutes, trucking associations, and private partners. This research found that the path forward to maintain public acceptance and achieve goals of ADS-equipped CMV operational cost-effectiveness, increased freight productivity, and reduction of crashes is through human operational assurance of vehicle, automation, freight, and public safety through specification, maintenance, inspections, monitoring, insurance, metrics, roadway assessment, and secure communications, as well as continuous lifecycle performance checks.