Opportunities for Advanced Vehicle Control Systems in Commercial VehicleOperations and Public Transportation Systems

摘要

In the course of developing automated vehicle-roadway systems, opportunities todeploy vehicle control systems at intermediate stages of development may emerge. Some of these systems may provide a significant efficiency or safety enhancement to existing operations with manually driven vehicles. Under certain circumstances, public transportation and freight movement systems provide an ideal application domain for vehicle control. The work presented here represents a feasibility study for the application of Advanced Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS) to transit bus and commercial vehicle operations. This paper explores past and present research relevant to automatic control for trucks and buses, and recommends specific operations that could be better performed by AVCS-assisted or controlled vehicles. A survey of feasible technologies for the guidance and control of such vehicles is also presented for various levels of automation.