1.  DEFINITION AND EVALUATION OF BUS AND TRUCK AUTOMATION OPERATIONS CONCEPTS

Task Order 4218

H.-S. Jacob Taso, San Jose State University
jtsao@email.sjsu.edu, jbotha@email.sjsu.edu, http://www.engr.sjsu.edu/jtsao/

This one-year project seeks to develop and evaluate operating concepts for a fully automated bus-truck AHS as well as intermediate steps facilitating the        deployment of such AHS. It will utilize and build upon the large amount of information resulting from many years of research at PATH on AHS as well as information on truck and bus automation accumulated through efforts taking place around the world (e.g. the CHAUFFEUR project). The scope of research is limited to developing and evaluating concepts for transportation corridors only. The research will also identify some benefit-cost elements for a more detailed benefit-cost comparisons between urban bus-AHS and its conventional public-transit alternatives, and between inter-city truck-AHS and its conventional freight-transportation alternatives.

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