Connected Vehicle Impacts on Transportation Planning\u2014Desk Reference.

2016PDFTech ReportFHWA-JPO-16-421DTFH61-12-D-00042Intelligent vehiclesHuman subject testingPilot studiesVehicle to vehicle communicationsVehicle to roadside communicationsTransportation planningHighway planningConnected vehiclesautomated vehiclestransportation planning products and processesmodelssimulationworkforce needstrainingskillsUnited StatesUnited States. Department of Transportation. Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program OfficeKrechmer, DanielBlizzard, KatherineCampbell, RobertJensen, MarkCambridge SystematicsIntelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office;Federal Highway AdministrationThe principal objective of this project, \u201cConnected Vehicle Impacts on Transportation Planning,\u201d is to comprehensively assess how connected vehicles should be considered across the range of transportation planning processes and products developed by States, Metropolitan Planning Organizations (MPO), and local agencies throughout the country. This desk reference is designed to help transportation professionals quickly understand and begin planning for the wide variety of impacts that connected-automated vehicle (C/AV) technology is expected to have on transportation planning products and processes. It is a companion document to Connected Vehicles in Transportation Planning: Final Report and Primer, which provides a comprehensive summary of project impacts and case studies as well as project technical memoranda, which are described below. It summarizes and illustrates the connections between two key analyses conducted by the project: 1) a C/AV impact typology that identified how C/AV technology can be considered in transportation planning processes and products under a variety of circumstances; and 2) a series of case studies, including illustrative scenarios of C/AV in transportation planning, based on real-world planning products and environments. They highlight the various ways that C/AV can be addressed in planning processes and products. The reference is organized into three sections, summarized below. It is designed to be a flexible document, and it is not necessary to read the reference cover-to-cover or in order. Readers can simply turn their attention to whichever transportation planning product, planning step or process, C/AV impact, or C/AV application they need further information on. Sections include a brief summary of C/AV technology to provide readers with some background and context on the C/AV impacts cataloged in the desk reference. This is followed by a description of key elements which includes the transportation planning products impacted by C/AV, the transportation planning steps and processes within these planning products that are impacted by C/AV, the expected impacts of C/AV on planning products and planning steps, and the potential applications of C/AV technology relevant to transportation planning. The final section includes a series of tables which cross reference these key elements, allowing users to identify in which planning products and steps specific C/AV impacts are most likely to occur