Cooperative Driving Automation Transportation Systems Management and Operations Strategies and Use Cases - An Overview

Federal Highway Administration2022PDFBriefUnited States. Federal Highway AdministrationTurner-Fairbank Highway Research CenterUnited States. Federal Highway AdministrationUnited StatesAutomationVehicle to vehicle communicationsVehicle to infrastructure communicationsTransportation system managementTransportation operationsFHWA-HRT-22-067The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA) Program is advancing the research and development of CDA to accelerate its market readiness and deployment. Through collaboration and open-source software development, the program allows researchers and engineers to research, develop, test, and evaluate CDA features on infrastructure and vehicles equipped with driving automation features. The focus is on using emerging automated driving and vehicle-to-everything technologies to improve the transportation system. The CARMA Ecosystem of products provides the necessary software for conducting CDA research and testing. The CARMA product suite consists of CARMA CloudSM, CARMA Streets, CARMA PlatformSM, and CARMA Messenger, all of which are downloadable tools supporting cooperation between vehicles.136