Towards the Development of a Concept of Operations for Automated Driving Systems in Commercial Vehicle Operations

Date and Time: Tuesday, July 19: 1:30 PM - 5:00 PM
Location: Garden 1-3

Richard Hanowski

Director- Division of Freight, Transit, & Heavy Vehicle Safety, Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

PRESENTATION DESCRIPTION

In 2020, the US Department of Transportation awarded eight Automated Driving System (ADS) Demonstration Grants, and the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI) was awarded a grant entitled “Trucking Fleet CONOPS for Managing Mixed Fleets”. The grant is being managed by the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA). The project is approximately at the half-way point and this presentation will highlight the project scope and provide an update on the ADS demonstrations carried out so far which have included truck queueing (May 2021), work zone navigation (March 2022), cross-country data collection (ongoing), and exit-to-exit (planned for 2023). A key aspect of the demonstration grants is to collect data that can be made public. To that end, the VTTI team has developed a Dataverse to house the data collected in this study.

SPEAKER BIOGRAPHY

Dr. Richard Hanowski is a Senior Research Scientist at Virginia Tech and serves as the Director of the Division of Freight, Transit, & Heavy Vehicle Safety at the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute (VTTI). Dr. Hanowski has been involved in transportation human factors research since 1991, when he was a graduate student working at the National Center for Advanced Transportation Technology at the University of Idaho. His career has included an internship at General Motors and three years as a Research Scientist at Battelle in Seattle. His experience includes transportation human factors with both heavy & light vehicles, laboratory & field testing, simulation, advanced system development & testing, naturalistic driving, design guideline development, and human performance evaluation. He is skilled in all phases of research, including conceptual framing, research design, data collection/synthesis/analysis, assessment of results, and presentation of findings. Dr. Hanowski has served as the Principal Investigator or Co-PI over $81 million of contract research, resulting in over 300 publications, including journal articles, conference papers, book chapters, and technical reports. His research has impacted national transportation policy, including truck driver fatigue/hours-of-service and driver distraction/texting. He has received several awards for his research including the 2011 SAE International's L. Ray Buckendale Lecture award. Dr. Hanowski received his Ph.D. in Industrial and Systems Engineering in 2000 from Virginia Tech.

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