1. U.S. DOT and CAV Joe Geigle FHWA-NC
Facilitating a new era of transportation innovation and safety
Joe Geigle FHWA-NC

2. USDOT Activities in Automation
Event
Date
USDOT releases Automated Driving Systems (ADS) 2.0: A Vision for Safety
September 12, 2017
Roundtable on Data for Automated Vehicle Safety
December 7, 2017
Public Listening Summit on Automated Vehicle Policy
March 1, 2018
Automated Vehicles 3.0 announced
Late Summer 2018
Various Research
Ongoing
National Dialogue
Work Zone Data Exchange Project
V2X Mapping Stakeholder Input

3. U.S. DOT Automation Policy
Automated Driving Systems (ADS) 2.0: A Vision for Safety (September 2017)
Clarifies Voluntary Safety Self-Assessment process
Emphasis on motor vehicle safety
2018 Update
Multimodal, surface transportation
Broadens considerations to reflect multimodal responsibilities (e.g. operations)
More information on ADS 2.0 is available on the NHTSA website:

4. 2018 Requests for Comment and Information Related to Automation
FHWA, FTA, FMCSA, NHTSA, FRA, PHMSA each released RFIs/RFCs in early 2018
Nearly 4,000 comments submitted
Topics included:
Technology availability
Mode-specific barriers to integration of automation
Mode-specific considerations
Since the release of ADS 2.0, USDOT modal administrations released Requests for Information (RFIs) and Requests for Comment (RFCs) regarding automation and the specific areas of interest for their modes. These RFIs and their responses are posted in the Federal Register.
Nearly 4,000 comments were received (3,815)
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Bus: kaczor58 / 123rf
Hazmat: ilfede / 123RF Stock Photo
Truck : rainerplendl / 123rf
Train: dedivan1923 / 123RF Stock Photo
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5. Public Listening Summit on Automated Vehicle Policy
Stakeholder Discussion
117 participants
Public Listening Session
1,111 participants (in-person and livestream)
Themes
Public safety and first responders
Disability and accessibility
Consumer and public education
Insurance and liability
Employment issues
Cybersecurity

6. FHWA National Dialogue on Highway Automation
The Federal Highway Administration is initiating a national conversation with partners and stakeholders to better understand the implications of highway automation to facilitate innovation and inform the Agency’s role in this area.
FHWA will use inputs from the National Dialogue to...
ASSESS National issues and priorities
DEVELOP technical guidance, best practices and standards
SUPPORT necessary research
ADAPT programs and policies
CREATE a National community or coalition
The Federal Highway Administration is initiating a national conversation with partners and stakeholders to better understand the implications of highway automation to facilitate innovation and inform the Agency’s role in this area.
This National Dialogue on Highway Automation represents a series of meetings held across the country to facilitate information sharing, identify key issues and prepare the infrastructure and the broader transportation community to safely and efficiently integrate automated vehicles into the road network.
The purpose of the National Dialogues has been to:
LISTEN: gather input from a diverse group of stakeholders
ENGAGE: facilitate information sharing among industry, public agencies, associations, and others
INFORM: raise awareness of USDOT and FHWA activities in automation and emerging technologies
EVOLVE: adapt existing programs, policies, and research to address automation
“Collaboration Corner” at Philadelphia National Dialogue event, June 26-27

7. FHWA National Dialogue Schedule
Month
Event
Location
June 7
National Dialogue Launch Workshop
Detroit, MI
June 26-27
National Workshop 1
Planning and Policy Considerations for Highway Automation
Philadelphia, PA
July 12
Automated Vehicle Symposium
FMCSA-FHWA Truck Automation Listening Session
San Francisco, CA
August 1-2
National Workshop 2
Digital Infrastructure and Data Considerations for Highway Automation
Seattle, WA
Early September
National Workshop 3
Freight Considerations for Highway Automation
Chicago, IL
October 24-25
National Workshop 4
Operations Considerations for Highway Automation
Phoenix, AZ
Week of Nov. 12
National Workshop 5
Infrastructure Design and Safety Considerations for Highway Automation
Austin, TX
Additional Information:

8. FMCSA Listening Sessions/Open Meetings on Vehicle Automation
Public Listening Session on Automation Technologies: Held June 19 at University of Michigan
Participants included representatives from industry, law enforcement, commercial motor vehicle operators, academia, and technology providers
FMCSA-FHWA Truck Automation Listening Session: Thursday, July 12 at 1:30, Grand Ballroom, Hilton Union Square
Motor Carrier Safety Advisory Committee (MCSAC) Meeting: July at USDOT Headquarters
FMCSA Truck Automation Listening Session, August 24, 2018 at the Great American Trucking Show, Dallas, Texas
Key Message: Please join U.S. DOT for a Listening Session this afternoon, right here, to discuss regulation of motor carrier safety and automated driving systems.
Full name of the Listening Session: Are the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Regulations (FMCSRs) a Barrier to the Safe Integration of Automated Driving Systems in Commercial Vehicle Operations? A Listening Session with FMCSA and FHWA

9. NHTSA Public Meetings and Listening Sessions
Public Meeting On Removing Regulatory Barriers For Vehicles With Automated Driving Systems March 2018
Public Listening Session on Automated Driving Systems 2.0: A Vision for Safety November 2017
Public Meeting on Automated Driving Systems: Voluntary Safety Self-Assessments October 2017

10. Research Approach and Highlights
Key Message: Discuss DOT’s research approach and transition to Kevin Dopart to cover mode-by-mode project highlights
Foundations: Enabling Legislation (e.g. FAST Act); Presidential Budgets, etc.
Roles in Automation Research
Evaluating impacts of technology, specifically to safety
Removing governmental barriers to innovation
Addressing market failures
Support higher-risk / longer-term research.
Talk about upcoming ATCMTD grant opportunity
Exploring how to ensure safe, accessible, and efficient integration of automation

11. Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018
Signed into law on March 23, 2018
Funds highly automated vehicle research and development
Reallocates a total of $100 million for automation activities, including:
Up to $38 million for direct research
Up to $60 million for demonstration grants
Up to $1.5 million for analysis of impacts on drivers and operators of commercial motor vehicles, in consultation with Department of Labor
Additional funding for NHTSA and OST

12. Data For Automated Vehicle Integration
Voluntary data exchanges to accelerate the safe integration of AVs
WORK ZONE DATA EXCHANGE
Purpose
Voluntary adoption of a basic work zone data spec
Outcomes within 6 months
Active work zone data feed
Feed is used in a meaningful way
Big Picture Outcome
Repeatable approach to harmonize local data
Components of a TTC Zone
Data for Automated Vehicle Integration (DAVI)
Multimodal – highways, freight, transit, NHTSA
Across the ecosystem
USDOT as facilitator and convener
Work Zone Data Exchange
A pilot test of DAVI
LONGER VERSION ON WORK ZONE
Purpose
To jumpstart voluntary adoption of a basic work zone data specification
To enable collaborative maintenance and expansion of the spec
Outcomes within 6 months
Data producers make available an active work zone data feed using a common, non-proprietary specification
Non-government developers use that data in a meaningful way – thus establishing an MVP of voluntary data exchange for work zone data
Big Picture Outcome
Repeatable approach to accelerate harmonization of local data sources
FULL TEXT
The goal of this project is to enable a critical mass of infrastructure owners and operators to voluntarily make harmonized work zone data available for third party use in a decentralized model that can scale.
Outcomes
Within 6 months of kickoff (August 2018), a minimum of three states (or other local jurisdictions) will make available an active work zone data feed using a common, non-proprietary specification. In addition, a minimum of three non-government developers (e.g., navigation applications) will use that data in a meaningful way – thus establishing an MVP of voluntary data exchange for work zone data.
This project will also produce a repeatable approach to accelerate harmonization of other local data sources across the country, and a sustainable model for stakeholders to expand and maintain such open specifications over the long-term without direct USDOT intervention.
Approach
USDOT will act as a convener and facilitator to help industry and non-federal governments reach agreement on common data formats that lower the cost of data exchange. We will likely model this open specification on the General Transit Feed Specification, which enables third parties and the USDOT to access consistent transit data across the nation. This project will build upon existing FHWA and FMCSA initiatives aimed at increasing availability and use of work zone-type data. We will use an agile development process and develop products collaboratively and in the open.

13. Automated Low-Speed Shuttles
Monitor development and deployment activity
Convene working group of early deployer communities and other organizations interested in small, automated shuttles.
Document Emerging Findings – including best practices, barriers, and lessons learned from early deployers and technology suppliers
Key Message: One of the first urban applications may be in low-speed shared vehicles, with a restricted ODD. The ITS JPO is sponsoring foundational research to understand the opportunities and challenges that these new vehicles and operating concepts may offer for communities.
Currently developing a State of the Practice paper and technical memoranda
Working Group Member Communities

14. FHWA: Cooperative Automation Testing
Cooperative Automated Vehicle Testing with VDOT and Transurban
Objective: Investigate the combination of speed harmonization, vehicle platooning, and cooperative merging at an entrance ramp for a single-lane, managed facility with access limited to cooperative automated vehicles.
Findings: Completed 21 runs with 5 FHWA test vehicles that confirm earlier simulation results that throughput can realistically be increased by more than 50 percent with greater stability and reliability .
FHWA completed the month-long process of testing an experimental cooperative automation system on the Virginia I-95 Express Lanes during the mid-day reversal while the roadway was closed to the public and then later in light traffic. 
On-site VDOT, Transurban, and State Police supported the project team with the experiment. 
Experimental automated driving systems installed on FHWA’s five-vehicle test fleet allowed the vehicles to apply speed harmonization, platooning, and cooperative ramp merging strategies. 
Traffic simulation of these experimental strategies suggests that significant improvements in traffic throughput/roadway capacity are possible, and that traffic will also be smoother and more reliable. (Potentially doubling the capacity of a lane)
Preliminary results suggest that the field tests will confirm the potential suggested by the simulation studies
Approach:
Explore the ‘whys’ and ‘hows’ of automated vehicle technologies on managed lanes by developing a scenario and operating concept that could optimize traffic flow of connected automated vehicles
Perform simulation studies to determine how traffic flows could be managed at the entrances to the managed lane and throughout to achieve optimum flows
Conduct experiment with live traffic to validate the simulation results
Status:
Simulation studies showed a 50% increase in capacity is possible on the managed lane
Testing with five of FHWA’s experimental automated vehicles started this week on I–95 operated by the Virginia Department of Transportation and Transurban
Google Maps Image of the Sites for the Cooperative Automated Vehicle Testing

15. FHWA: Scenario Planning for Connected and Automated Vehicles
Purpose: To equip agencies with information and tools to consider the uncertainties of CV/AV deployment
Created scenarios of potential CV/AV deployment
Conducted workshops to refine test scenarios
Assessed overarching scenario impacts and implications
Outputs: Practitioner guidance/guidebook, qualitative assessment of impacts and policy implications arising from future described in scenarios
Drivers
environment… economy… society… technology…
Levers
infrastructure conditions… travel choices…
Outcomes
congestion… reliability… safety… quality of life…
FHWA has been conducting work to both explore potential scenarios for connected and automated vehicle deployment, while also documenting their scenario development and testing approach so that it can be replicated by state and local agencies.
FHWA used a collaborative approach involving agency staff, stakeholders, and subject matter experts to develop, validate, refine, and test descriptive scenarios describing the deployment, adoption, use and likely impacts of connected and automated vehicles.
FHWA is in the process of developing a high-level qualitative assessment of the impacts and policy implications arising from the futures described in these scenarios and will be documenting these findings in a forthcoming report. It will also be producing a practitioner guidance document to support agencies that wish to replicate this process.
Scenario Building Blocks

16. Research in Other USDOT Agencies
FMCSA: Development of Baseline Safety Performance Measures for Automated CMVs
FMCSA: Sensor Guidelines for Automated CMV Applications
FRA: Automated Vehicles at Highway-Rail Grade Crossings
FTA: Strategic Transit Automation Research Plan
MARAD/FMCSA: Feasibility Study: Low-Speed Automated Truck Queue at Ports and Warehouses

17. Research in Other USDOT Agencies
NHTSA: Driving Automation Communication of Intent with Shared Road Users
NHTSA: FMVSS Considerations for Vehicles with Automated Driving Systems
PHMSA: Carriage of Hazardous Materials by Automated Vehicles

18. transportation.gov/av