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U.S. Department of Transportation
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National Connected Vehicle Field Infrastructure Footprint Analysis
§Comprehensive and detailed study including a set of design concepts with high level of engineering detail illustrating the relationships between applications & infrastructure
§Will define set of deployment scenarios
§Will answer:
□Why is a Connected Vehicle field infrastructure needed?
□What form should the field infrastructure take?
□Where is deployment of field infrastructure needed?
□By when should field infrastructure be in place?
□What are the cost, organizational, and institutional implications of deploying, operating, and managing field infrastructure?
□What are the planning and funding strategies to put the infrastructure into place in a coordinated manner?
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This effort is being led by AASHTO

Efforts to broaden this initial nationwide footprint will be accomplished through deployment of high-value, high-priority applications at isolated locations. In the early years, this means emphasis will be placed on the following:

 A focus on commercial vehicles applications where DSRC can be used as a replacement or enhancement to the communications    mechanism in existing systems (such as transponders used for roadside screening or through the Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN) program)

 Research and implementation of methods that use DSRC for emergency vehicle pre-emption (EVP) and transit signal priority (TSP) systems that would replace existing systems

 The identification and deployment of DSRC-based safety applications at isolated high volume, high accident locations where they will provide demonstrable benefits

AASHTO and its members will establish the specific applications to be pursued during the early deployments, shape the desired outcomes, and begin to educate and inform based on initial results.