Chapter 2
Surface Transportation Automation
Publication: Disruptive Emerging Transportation Technologies
Abstract
Connected and autonomous vehicle (CAV) technologies are among the most heavily researched automotive technologies. Under the categories of transportation automation levels as defined by Society of Automobile Engineers International, this chapter provides a comprehensive overview of connected vehicle (CV) and autonomous vehicle (AV) technologies, as well as other automation-based vehicles such as cooperative vehicles and autonomous shuttles. To better understand the CV's collective functionality, the existing CV-supported systems are categorized into CV-aided safety systems, mobility systems, and environmental systems. A specific technology for CAV systems, the distributed ledger technology (DLT), is presented; it has emerged as a potentially revolutionary approach across a variety of industries including transportation, finance, supply chain management and logistics, and energy. An analysis is included of the potential to effectively apply CAV technologies and associated systems to achieve the envisioned future of transportation.
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Disruptive Emerging Transportation Technologies
Pages: 63 - 104
Editors: Heng Wei, Ph.D. https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5308-8593, Yinhai Wang, Ph.D., and Jianming Ma, Ph.D.
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Published online: Apr 15, 2022
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