Emerging Technologies Impacting the Future of Transportation Automation

Innovative technology breakthroughs are blurring the lines between the physical, digital and biological spheres across a number of fields, including transportation. This Fourth Industrial Revolution (4IR) we are now experiencing consists of emerging technologies such as the Internet of Things (IoT), fifth-generation (5G) wireless technologies, artificial intelligence, robotics, and connected and automated vehicles (CAVs). These emerging technologies will help improve existing transportation issues, as well as bring a revolution to ownership models (e.g., privately owned vehicles and shared mobility) and cooperative automation-adaptive infrastructures.

This collection is curated by Heng Wei, Ph.D., P.E.; Yinhai Wang, Ph.D., P.E.; and Jianming Ma, Ph.D, P.E., PMP.

This Collection includes:

Disruptive Emerging Transportation Technologies
Prepared by the Technical Committee on Connected and Automated Vehicles Impacts; Edited by Heng Wei, Ph.D., P.E.; Yinhai Wang, Ph.D., P.E.; and Jianming Ma, Ph.D., P.E.

Chapter 1: Emerging Technologies Impacting the Future of Transportation

Chapter 2: Surface Transportation Automation


Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part A: Systems
Modeling Automated Vehicle Crashes with a Focus on Vehicle At-Fault, Collision Type, and Injury Outcome

Connected Preceding Vehicle Identification for Enabling Cooperative Automated Driving in Mixed Traffic

Development of a Knowledge Base for Multiyear Infrastructure Planning for Connected and Automated Vehicles

Enhancing Work Zone Capacity by a Cooperative Late Merge System Using Decentralized and Centralized Control Strategies

Development of an Adaptive Traffic Signal Control Framework for Urban Signalized Interchanges Based on Infrastructure Detectors and CAV Technologies

Journal of Transportation Engineering, Part B: Pavements
Review of Applications of Artificial Intelligence Algorithms in Pavement Management

Journal of Infrastructures Systems
Preparing Road Infrastructure to Accommodate Connected and Automated Vehicles: System-Level Perspective

Smart Infrastructure: A Vision for the Role of the Civil Engineering Profession in Smart Cities

ASCE-ASME Journal of Risk and Uncertainty in Engineering Systems, Part A: Civil Engineering
Methodology to Quantitatively Assess Impacts of 5G Telecommunications Cybersecurity Risk Scenarios on Dependent Connected Urban Transportation Systems


Proceedings Papers
Surrogate Measuring of Connected Vehicle’s Operational Impact on Traffic Safety
International Conference on Transportation and Development 2021

Machine Learning-Enabled Automatic Vehicle Detection for Virtual Weigh-in-Motion Applications
Construction Research Congress 2022

Toward Wi-Fi-Enabled Real-Time Communication for Proactive Safety Systems in Highway Work Zones: A Case Study
Construction Research Congress 2022