Research Recaps are one-page overviews of the Safety21 US DOT University Transportation Center-funded research. Each recap includes a description of the research project’s purpose, approach, key findings, conclusions, contact information for the research team and a link to the final research report.
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AUTOMATED AND CONNECTED VEHICLES
Safety Technology
- AV4EV – Open-source Autonomous Vehicle Software for Open-standard Electric Vehicle Platforms (2023 – 2024)
- Co-designing Safety-Enhancing ADAS with Transit Operators (2023 – 2024)
- Computational Imaging for Improving Vehicle Safety (2023 – 2024)
- Digital Twin for Driving as Planning Support Tool (2024 – 2025)
- Enhancing Traffic Safety and Connectivity: A Data-driven Multi-step-ahead Vehicle Headway Prediction Leveraging High-resolution Vehicular Trajectories (2023 – 2024)
- Equipment for F1Tenth Autonomous Racing Capstone Course (2023 – 2024)
- Estimating the Effects of Vehicle Automation and Vehicle Weight and Size on Crash Frequency and Severity: Phase 1 (2023 – 2024)
- Evaluating Autonomous Vehicles’ Safety Benefits in Mixed Autonomy Scenarios (2023 – 2024)
- F1Tenth Autonomous Racing Course and Competition (2023 – 2024)
- Hierarchical Decision Making and Control in RL-based Autonomous Driving for Improved Safety in Complex Traffic Scenarios (2023 – 2024)
- Integrating Occupancy Grids with Spatial-Temporal Reinforcement Learning for Enhanced Vehicle Control Navigating Highly Dynamic and Complex Driving Scenarios (2024 – 2025)
- Low-cost Real-Time Learning-based Localization for Autonomous Systems (2023 – 2024)
- Mitigating Cascading Failures for Safety in Transportation Networks in the Era of Autonomous Vehicles (2023 – 2024)
- Preventing Rear and Side Crashes of Heavy-Duty Tractor Trailer Combinations with Smart Sensors and Vision Systems (2024 – 2025)
- Radar-Camera Infrastructure for Automotive Safety (2023 – 2024)
- Risk-Aware Warning and Control for Interactive Traffic Safety (2023 – 2024)
- Safe and Efficient Automated Freeway Traffic Control (Part 1) (2023 – 2024)
- Safe and Efficient Automated Freeway Traffic Control (Part 2) (2024 – 2025)
- Safety Assurance and Demonstration of Connected Autonomous Vehicles (2024 – 2025)
- Safe Decision-making in Interactive Environments (2023 – 2024)
- Safety Through Agility: Using Mixed Reality to Tune Shared Autonomy Systems (2023 – 2024)
- Vehicle-in-Virtual-Environment (VVE) Method for Developing and Evaluating VRU Safety of Connected and Autonomous Driving (2023 – 2024)
Vehicle-to-Everything (V2X) Communications in Unlicensed Spectrum Can Be Safe and Efficient (2024 – 2025)
Policy and Education
- Advancing Transportation Safety and Workforce Development in Emerging Technologies (2023 – 2024)
- Analysis of Contributing Factors in Crashes Involving Electric Vehicles and Vehicles with Automated Features (2024 – 2025)
- Effect of Drivers Education on Traffic Safety (2024 – 2025)
- EV Apprenticeship Programs and Out of this World Supply Chain & Logistics (2023 – 2024)
- F1Tenth Autonomous Training Platform, Courseware and Community Activities (2024 – 2025)
- On the Role of Perceived Safety Concerns on Public Acceptance Behavior of Autonomous Vehicles (2023 – 2024)
- Planning and Policy for Safer Roads with Autonomous Vehicles:
Moral Decision Making Behavior in Dilemma-inducing Situations (2024 – 2025) - Transforming Transportation Planning and Policy for Safety (Part 1) (2023 – 2024)
- Transforming Transportation Planning and Policy for Safety (Part 2) (2024 – 2025)
Safety for Vulnerable Road Users
- Cooperative Sensing of Vulnerable Road Users and Real-Time Response to Potential Collisions via Vehicle and Infrastructure Communication (2024 – 2025)
- Connected Vision for Increased Pedestrian Safety (CVIPS) (2023 – 2024)
- Intersection Safety for the Vulnerable (2023 – 2024)
- PedPal Lite: An ATSC-Independent Safe Intersection Crossing App (2023 – 2024)
- Safety in Connected Automated Vehicles in the presence of Vulnerable Road Users (2023 – 2024)
- SALUSLux: Automation for Safer Pedestrian Street Lighting at Intersections (2024 – 2025)
- Vehicle-in-Virtual-Environment (VVE) Method for Developing and Evaluating VRU Safety of Connected and Autonomous Driving with Year 2 Focus on Bicyclist Safety (2024 – 2025)
SMART PHYSICAL AND DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE
Physical Infrastructure
- Evaluating the Effectiveness of Urban Speed Cameras on Traffic Safety in a Period of Dramatic Change (2023 – 2024)
- Generating Safety-Critical Driving Scenarios for the Design of the CAV Proving-Ground (2023 – 2024)
- Improve Highway Safety by Reducing the Risks of Landslides (Phase 1) (2023 – 2024)
- Improve Highway Safety by Reducing the Risks of Landslides (Phase 2) (2024 – 2025)
- Landslides: 3D Reconstruction with Smartphone Images (2024 – 2025)
- Monitoring of Urban Roadway Safety Hazards from Existing Bus-based Video Imagery (Phase 1) (2023 – 2024)
- Monitoring of Urban Roadway Safety Hazards from Existing Bus-based Video Imagery (Phase 2) (2024 – 2025)
- The PennSTART Safety Standards Project (2023 – 2024)
Cyber Infrastructure
- Cyber Resilience of Connected and Autonomous Transportation Systems (Phase 1): Sate-of-the-art and Research Gaps (2024 – 2025)
- Cybersecurity Risk Assessment in Connected Intelligent Systems for Designing Resilient Systems (2023 – 2024)
- Digital Twin for Driving (2023 – 2024)