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Intelligent Transportation Systems
Joint Program Office

Cooperative Driving Automation (CDA)

Cooperative Driving Automation enables automated vehicles to communicate with other vehicles, infrastructure, and road users to coordinate movements and improve safety, efficiency, and mobility.

Goal

Assess the feasibility of conducting a small-scale Cooperative Driving Automation pilot (focusing on L0-2 with Interoperable Connectivity) and package the accomplishments for design and architecture.

Approach

Facilitate selected multimodal deployment use cases where infrastructure and AVs face clear operational challenges, without overlapping industry R&D.

Anticipated Outcomes

Reduced AV incidents/impacts and more successful overall deployment.

Near-Term Actions

Address foundational CDA research such as in architecture and standards, research and assess potential CDA use cases, and support cross-cutting activities such as related analysis, modeling, and simulation across modes and use case scenarios.

Current Project Highlights

CDA Design and Architecture

The objectives of this project are to:
  1. Develop and/or improve the CARMA Ecosystem's architecture and interfaces
  2. Develop a CDA domain achievable within the next 5-7 years
  3. Develop an understanding of spectrum requirements for the deployment of the use cases/applications developed thus far in the CDA Program.

Near Term CDA Small Scale Prototype Planning

This project engages IOOs, OEMs, industry members and SDOs to assess readiness for CDA prototypes and/or pilot using stakeholder engagement and planning.

Truck Platooning Impacts on Bridges, Phase II: Structural Serviceability

Structural Serviceability will investigate potential impacts on service and fatigue limit states of common bridge types from most probable truck platoon configurations identified in Phase I.