1	Connected Vehicle Overview Brian Cronin, Team Leader, Research, Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office Research and Innovative Technology Administration, USDOT Brian.Cronin@DOT.GOV
2	Today’s Transportation Challenges
3	ITS Strategic Research Plan 2010-2014 Vision: To research and facilitate a national, multimodal surface transportation system that features a connected transportation environment around vehicles of all types, the infrastructure, and portable devices to serve the public good by leveraging technology to maximize safety, mobility, and environmental performance Plan developed with full participation by all surface transportation modal administrations, as well as with significant interaction with multimodal stakeholders 2012 Progress Update recently completed
4	Fully Connected Vehicle
5	Technology for Safety – 5.9 GHz DSRC What it is Wi-Fi radio adapted for vehicle environment Inexpensive to produce in quantity Original FCC spectrum allocation in 1999 FCC revised allocation in 2004 and 2006 How the technology works Messages transmitted 10 times/sec (300m range – line of sight) Basic Safety Message: vehicle position, speed, heading, acceleration, size, brake system status, etc. Privacy is protected (vehicle location is NOT recorded or tracked) Benefits of DSRC technology compared to radar/laser technology Reduced price Improved reliability à fewer false alarms Increased performance à addresses more crash scenarios Drawback of the technology Both vehicles need to be equipped to gain benefit Requires security infrastructure
6	ITS Research Program Components
7	Connected Vehicle Safety
8	Safety Pilot Model Deployment
9	Moving towards Infrastructure Deployment
10	Connected Vehicle Applications
11	Mobility, Weather, and AERIS
12	Deployment Scenario
13	Affiliated Connected Vehicle Test Beds
14	To Do: NHTSA Decision on Safety Understand the Market Potential for New Vehicle Based Data Enabled by Connected Vehicles Partner with the Community to Define and Test Applications based on additional SAE J2735 Messages (Probe Data, Environment …) Understand the landscape for Data Aggregation in a Connected Vehicle World
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