Automated Vehicles Industry Survey of Transportation Infrastructure Needs

Automated vehicle (AV) deployment can bring about transformational changes to transportation and society as a whole. The infrastructure owner-operators (IOOs), who own, maintain, operate the infrastructure, have opportunity work jointly with AV industry provide safe efficient operations. A key question for IOOs is, “What improvements do manufacturers believe will facilitate improve performance?” This study was designed address this through comprehensive survey approach, including an online follow-up interviews. list of ten questions discussed, covering physical digital maintenance, standards specifications, policy support, data sharing, so forth. researchers reached out more than 60 entities hold testing permit in California. In total, 20 companies responded. They were from different sectors well represented industry. From results study, it is concluded that most important roadway characteristics potential benefit automated driving system (ADS) are: (1) mapping signage; (2) lane markings; (3) zone incident information; (4) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications; (5) actual traffic signals; (6) general (7) lighting. features considered critical help accelerate ADS include road closure information, signal phase timing, congestion. provides diverse voices in-depth insights into topics should engage advance AVs’ deployment.