Connected and Autonomous Vehicles Continuing Safety Areas

CHALLENGE

In order to keep up with the progress being made in this area, it's important that we understand how these new technologies will change the approach to designing, managing and operating existing and planned transportation infrastructure in addition to the following:

  • Impacts to design and infrastructure decisions
  • Real-time data usage
  • Impacts to existing infrastructure
  • Impacts to workforce training needs
  • Impacts to driver licensing
  • Communication infrastructure investments
  • Impacts to freight flow
  • Impacts to laws, policies & procedures
  • Determining liability & fault in a crash

DIRECTION

Connected and autonomous vehicle technologies have the potential to significantly change surface transportation as we know it today. Externalities associated with driving including crashes, traffic congestion, air pollution, greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumptions may significantly diminish as connected and autonomous vehicle technologies are introduced. The adoption of these technologies will help us reach our goal of Zero Fatalities.

PRIORITY STRATEGIES

ENGINEERING
  • Develop a working understanding of the technology.
  • Learn how to accommodate and process increasing amounts of data in order to leverage information and make decisions.
  • Understand near-term versus long-term implications (i.e. standards, mixed traffic, investment strategies, etc.)
EDUCATION

Initiate a Connected and Autonomous Vehicle Technologies Campaign to highlight the technology and various implications.

EMERGENCY MEDICAL SERVICES

Understand FHWA's Response, Emergency Staging, Communications, Uniform Management, and Evacuation (R.E.S.C.U.M.E.) Concept of Operations.

LEADERS
  • Utah Department of Transportation
  • Federal Highway Administration
  • Utah Department of Public Safety:
    • Utah Highway Patrol,
    • Highway Safety Office,
    • Driver License Division
  • Federal Motor Carrier Administration
  • Utah Traffic Records Coordinating Committee
  • Statewide Local Law Enforcement
  • Utah Department of Health Utah Bureau of EMS and Preparedness
  • Utah Transit Authority
go back to Continuing Safety Areas