Impacts and Costs of Connected and Automated Vehicles

Impacts and Costs of Connected and Automated Vehicles

One of my current projects is working with ICF and the EDR Group to calculate the infrastructure, vehicle, and user costs of multiple potential deployment scenarios for connected and autonomous vehicles. My role is as a subject matter expert on connected and automated vehicles, In addition to producing the cost estimates, we are developing an automated tool […]

The Three Ages of ITS

The Three Ages of ITS

A while back, I worked with two of my colleagues (Greg Hatcher and Carolina Burnier, both of Noblis) to write an article for Thinking Highways magazine on the past 10 years of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) developments in the U.S. In developing that article, it occurred to me that at the risk of oversimplification, one […]

Providing Robot Drivers with ESP

Providing Robot Drivers with ESP

There is considerable discussion and debate concerning the relationships between connected vehicle and automated vehicle technology. In an article from the fall 2015 edition of Thinking Highways magazine, I describe the results from a study of the interrelationships. A key take-away is that the two technologies have, in many ways, a synergistic relationship. Connectivity literally […]