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"Marcia Pincus"
  • Marcia Pincus
  • Program Manager, Environment (AERIS) and ITS Evaluation
  • USDOT Research and Innovative Technology Administration


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Overview
  • What is Connected Vehicle Research?


  • Transportation and the Environment


  • AERIS Research Program


  • BAA Research Projects
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What is Connected Vehicle Research?
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Why Is Connected Vehicle Research Needed?
  • USDOT connected vehicle research aims to tackle some of the biggest challenges in the surface transportation industry in the areas of safety, mobility, and environment
    • Safety | In 2009, there were 5.5 million crashes, resulting in 33,808 fatalities and 2.2 million injuries. Motor vehicle crashes are the leading cause of death for people ages 3 through 34.
    • Mobility | U.S. highway users waste 4.8 billion hours a year stuck in traffic – nearly one full work week (or vacation week) for every traveler. The overall cost (based on wasted fuel and lost productivity) reached $115 billion in 2009 – more than $808 for every U.S. traveler. Delays in truck operations alone resulted in $33 billion in wasted fuel and lost productivity.
    • Environment | The total amount of wasted fuel topped 1.9 billion gallons in 2010 according to the Texas Transportation Institute’s Urban Mobility Report.
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Transportation and the Environment
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AERIS Research Objectives
  • Vision | Cleaner Air through Smarter Transportation
  • Objectives | Investigate whether it is possible and feasible to:
    • Generate/capture environmentally-relevant real-time transportation data (from vehicles and the system)
    • Use this environmental data to create actionable information that can be used by system users and operators to facilitate “green” transportation choices for all modes
    • Assess whether doing these things yields good enough environmental benefits to justify further investment by the USDOT


    • TRANSFORMATIVE and INNOVATIVE
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The AERIS Program
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Track 1: Establish the Foundation
  • Broad Agency Announcement (BAA) Research Projects


    • Purpose of Issuing the BAA:
      • To expand knowledge of and experience with implementation of ITS applications to improve environmental performance by leveraging partners’ research results and investments

    • Objectives of BAA Research:
      • Foster innovative research on ITS applications that improve environmental performance, and possibly develop new applications
      • Promote capture and management of real-time data that are relevant to environmental applications development and performance measurement
      • Support development and enhancement of evaluation techniques, performance measurement, and technologies to capture environmentally-relevant data
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"An Evaluation of Likely Environmental..."
  • An Evaluation of Likely Environmental Benefits of Lowest Fuel Consumption Route Guidance in the Buffalo-Niagara Metropolitan Area | University at Buffalo
  • Preliminary System Development Plan for an AERIS Data Capture and Management System | Mixon Hill
  • Eco-ITS | University of California – Riverside (UCR)
  • Assessment, Fusion, and Modeling of Commercial Vehicle Engine Control Unit Data | Calmar Telematics and UCR
  • Engaging the International Community | University of California Partners for Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH) Program
  • Developing and Evaluating Intelligent an Eco-Drive Application | Virginia Tech
  • Developing Eco-Adaptive Signalized Intersection Algorithms | Virginia Tech
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