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Safety Pilot Model Deployment Test Conductor
  • Jim Sayer
  • Program Manager
  • University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute
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How Model Deployment Supports Connected Vehicle Objectives
  • Tests V2V and V2I safety and mobility applications under real-world, multi-modal driving conditions
  • Data can be used to determine the effectiveness of the technologies and applications at reducing crashes
  • Helps ensure that the devices are safe and do not distract motorist or cause unintended consequences.
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Scope
  • More than 2,800 vehicles
    • Passenger cars, commercial trucks, transit
    • Integrated Safety Systems, Vehicle Awareness Devices, Aftermarket Safety Devices, and Retrofit Safety Devices
  • 73 lane-miles of roadway instrumented with 29 roadside-equipment installations
  • 1 year of data collection


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Test Conductor Team
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Parsons Brinkerhoff & HNTB
  • PB leads infrastructure development
    • Develop and direct infrastructure plan for installations within the City boundaries
    • Works closely with the City of Ann Arbor Public Services Department
  • HNTB leads outreach
    • HNTB develops infrastructure plan for installations on State properties
    • Works closely with MDOT




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Mixon Hill & SAIC
  • Mixon Hill leads infrastructure data mgmt.
    • Responsible for data collection spec, backhaul, and storage
    • Additional application development based on DUAP2 and VIDAS
    • Works will all partners involved in the infrastructure development
  • SAIC leads interoperability testing
    • With UMTRI, coordinates all equipment suppliers
    • Conducts lab and field interoperability tests


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escrypt, TTI, & AAA
  • escrypt leads wireless communication security
    • Works with equipment suppliers and during interoperability tests
  • TTI provides recommendations and preliminary assessments of additional applications to be tested
    • Works closely with UMTRI and infrastructure leads
  • AAA provides outreach experience and services to the program
    • Works closely with outreach lead and UMTRI


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Ann Arbor as the Deployment Site
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Ann Arbor as the Deployment Site
  • A good mix of high-volume, multi-modal traffic
  • Urban, suburban and rural travel
  • Significant commuter traffic
  • A variety of roadway characteristics
  • Weather variation to examine events, applications, and equipment durability
  • Proximity to CAMP and suppliers
  • Detroit is site of the 2014 ITS World Congress
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Infrastructure Installations
  • Strategy for site location
    • Capture all traffic operating in Northeast Ann Arbor, and any commuter traffic entering from the North, East, or South
  • Roadside Equipment at:
    • 21 signalized intersections
    • 3 curves
    • 5 freeway sites
  • 2 SPaT enabled corridors
    •  12 intersections, 6 per corridor
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Driver Recruitment in Ann Arbor
  • Recruit to maximize vehicle exposure to the site
  • Large potential recruitment population
    • City’s population about 114,000
    • 40,000 UM employees (20,000 at UM Hospital)
    • VA Hospital, EPA, etc.
    • High employee retention at rates
  • Two trucking firms
    • Con-way Freight and Sysco Foods
  • Two transit agencies
    • Ann Arbor Transit Authority and UM Transit


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Vehicles to be Equipped
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Additional Applications
  • USDOT strategic goals of Safety, State of Good Repair, Economic Competitiveness, Livability, and Environmental Sustainability
  • MDOT Data Use Analysis and Processing (DUAP) Project
    • Applications that enhance transportation operations
  • Vehicle-based Information & Data Collection System (VIDAS)
    • Application of actionable road and weather data
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Other Applications Under Investigation
  • Emergency vehicle preemption
    • Two hospitals on the SPaT enabled Fuller/Geddes corridor
  • Pedestrian/Bicyclist detection
    • Detect pedestrian traffic at instrumented intersections
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Program Outreach
  • Coordinated effort, involving all team members in cooperation with the USDOT
    • Model Deployment Showcase
    • Printed and Video Materials
    • Industry Publications
    • Public Meetings
    • Technical Papers and Presentations
    • Website
      • http://spmd.umtri.umich.edu

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Program Outreach
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Stakeholder Utilization of the Site
  • Provide access to, and support for, use of the operating environment by other stakeholders
  • Showcase facility located at UMTRI to support stakeholder use of the site
    • Displays and video presentations of the applications
    • Driver training facilities, demonstration areas, and a vehicle-based demonstration staging area
    • Demonstration routes for on-road application demonstrations
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Stakeholder Utilization of the Site
    • Establishing:
      • Registration process
      • Check-in and check-out procedures
      • Rules for use
      • Safety procedures
      • Coordination of competing or conflicting testing
      • Assistance in subject recruitment
      • Vehicle support and facilities
      • Data retrieval



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Questions?
  • jimsayer@umich.edu