This report explores opportunities for employing autonomous driving technology to dampen
stop-and-go waves on freeways. If successful, it could reduce fuel consumption and …

Passenger and heavy-duty vehicles make up 36% of California's greenhouse gas (GHG)
emissions. Reducing emissions from vehicular travel is therefore paramount for any path …

Transportation is a rapidly changing field that impacts all members of society in this country.
One of the controversial and more dangerous ways in which transportation impacts society …

This position paper argues for a consistent vision regarding the implementation of
autonomous driving in a fully automated traffic system. More specifically, it highlights …

This project has shown how connected vehicle systems, based on vehicle-vehicle and
vehicle-infrastructure communication and coordination, can support the development of …

Surface transportation consumes a vast quantity of fuel and accounts for about a third of the
US CO2 emissions. In addition to the use of more fuel-efficient vehicles and carbon-neutral …

This article addresses the roles that transportation infrastructure and government can have
in accelerating the deployment of increasingly automated vehicles into society. Current …

ABSTRACT 1 Freeway bottlenecks often cause traffic capacity drops and speed oscillations
that not only 2 compromise traffic performance at the bottlenecks but also likely propagate …

Autonomous driving systems present promising methods for congestion mitigation in mixed
autonomy traffic control settings. In particular, when coupled with even modest traffic state …

The Free Radical Concept is best characterized as fully autonomous vehicles capable of
driving in both mixed traffic and on dedicated AHS lanes. This concept concentrates the …