Poster 13: Investigating the Effectiveness of Vehicle Automation Technologies for Improving Pedestrian Safety using Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) Test Bed
(Room Palms Ballroom)
17 Jul 19
5:30 PM
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7:00 PM
Tracks:
Transportation Operations Impact Assessment
This project, funded by USDOT Federal Highway Administration, is one of the early initiatives to research the potential of Vehicle-to-Pedestrian (V2P) technologies to improve pedestrian safety through vehicle automation and user notification. It identified the need of standardized strategies to investigate the effectiveness and applicability of market-ready V2P systems, based on a variety of platforms and using different sensors. With that goal, this effort established a V2P Test Bed at Turner-Fairbank Highway Research Center; and developed a flexible assessment plan to investigate the effectiveness and limitations of different of market-ready V2P systems to improve pedestrian safety and mobility. Assessments and comparisons of two market-ready V2P systems not only revealed the strength and limitations of these systems, but also validated the importance of standardized test plan framework developed under this project. The development of standardized testing strategies and evaluation is an important step to providing suggestions for the development of future vehicle automation technology to maximize road user safety and mobility, as well as future directions for smart community technology solutions.