Developing Smart Infrastructure and Connected Systems
Optimizing roadway infrastructure to improve safety and reduce congestion through advancements in telecommunication, sensors, improvement in geometric design, augmented reality, driver assistance systems, human-machine interactions, as well as by addressing cybersecurity risks of hardware, software, and infrastructure systems.
Improving Safety for all Modes and Populations
Examining the synergistic relationships between safety and mobility and considering specific needs of vulnerable populations (e.g., underserved communities and disadvantaged populations) across modal preferences (e.g., pedestrians, bicyclists, commercial vehicles, and automated vehicles) to develop a fully integrated transportation system.
Promoting Automated Vehicle Safety
Identifying, developing, and evaluating novel approaches that promote safety between automated vehicles, which move both people and goods, and all road users, including all types of vehicle drivers, , bicyclists, and pedestrians. Evaluating the human and machine interface as well as the cybersecurity risks of automated vehicle systems.
Embedding Equity and Community Engagement within Transportation Safety
Developing and integrating best practices to comprehensively improve transportation safety through a lens of equity (or existing inequities), while actively engaging the public in the generation (e.g., knowledge co-development) and dissemination of safety solutions.