Author: mohaiminul

Adaptive Cruise Control (ACC) technology, as a precursor of automated vehicle technology, has been available for over two decades and is now adopted in the car models from more than 20 manufacturers. It can be expected that the penetration of ACC vehicles will continue to grow and become very significant, and thus will have profound impacts on the traffic flow. The literature has reported that ACC has the potential to improve traffic flow such as increasing the throughput and improving traffic stability. Notably, most studies that claimed the benefits of ACC on traffic flow were based on simulation outcomes and lacked the empirical ground. To facilitate research and application of ACC and ultimately automated vehicles a webinars series is organized. Please visit The ACC Webinars Series Website for more information.

This chapter summarizes the presentations of speakers addressing such issues during the Automated Vehicles Symposium 2020 (AVS20) held virtually on July 27–30, 2020. These speakers participated in the break-out session titled “Artificial Intelligence for Automated Vehicle Control and Traffic Operations: Challenges and Opportunities”. The corresponding discussion and recommendations are presented in terms of the lessons learned and the future research directions to be adopted to benefit from AI in order to develop safer and more efficient connected and automated vehicles (CAV). This session was organized by the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Traffic Flow Theory and Characteristics (ACP50) and the TRB Committee on Artificial Intelligence and Advanced Computing Applications (AED50). The Chapter is availble at: https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-3-030-80063-5_6

The Automated Vehicles Symposium (AVS) brings together the brightest minds in the tech and automotive space to discuss the future of mobility. 1,500+ thought leaders from around the world convene to address complex technology, operations, and policy issues that will move us toward safe and reliable automated mobility. The Symposium is produced in partnership with the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (AUVSI) and the Transportation Research Board (TRB). The AVS 2020 was virtually held from 27 to 30 July 2020.

TRB 2021 Workshop:

A workshop titled "From Traffic Flow Modeling of Connected and Automated Vehicles to Transportation Guidelines, Policies, and Specifications: Lessons Learned and Opportunities Missed" was organized by the ACP50(2) Subcommittee (Connected and Automated Traffic Flow or CAT-Flow Subcommittee). The workshop was held during the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Annual Meeting on Thursday, January 21, 2021. Dr. Samer H. Hamdar was the moderator of the workshop that featured the following presentations/panelists:

1. Presentation 1: FHWA’s Connected and Automated Vehicle Analysis, Modeling, and Simulation Research Program
   Presenter: Dr. Rachel James
2. Presentation 2: CARMA Initiative: Using Open-source Software to Transform the Transportation Network
   Presenter: Dr. Pavle Bujanović
3. Presentation 3: TU Delft Smart Vehicle Lab: Using Instrumented Vehicles to Collect Data of the Vehicles and their Surroundings
   Presenter: Dr. Winnie Daamen
4. Presentation 4: AVA: Automated Vehicles for All
   Presenter: Dr. Alireza Talebpour
5. Presentation 5: OpenACC. An Open Database of Car-Following Experiments to Study the Properties of Commercial ACC Systems
   Presenter: Dr. Biagio Ciuffo