Policies and Design Guidelines to Plan for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Ouafa Benkraouda; Lindsay Maurer Braun; Arnab Chakraborty

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Title

Policies and Design Guidelines to Plan for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles

Author(s)

• Ouafa Benkraouda
• Lindsay Maurer Braun
• Arnab Chakraborty

Issue Date

2022-08

Keyword(s)

• Connected and Autonomous Vehicles
• Planning
• Scenario Planning
• Mid-size Regions
• Consumer Preference
• Descriptive Statistics
• Policies and Design Guidelines

Abstract

This report chronicles the work undertaken by researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana Champaign to identify policies and design guidelines to plan for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAVs) in mid-sized regions in Illinois. The report starts with the goals of this work followed by a review of existing literature. The review addresses CAV technologies and scenario planning, including academic research articles, policies and guidance documents from federal and state agencies, and recent long-range transportation plans. The review findings are organized into three categories—drivers, levers, and impacts—to facilitate scenario-based planning and included key factors and trends in technology development and adoption (drivers), mechanisms that planners and policymakers may employ to intervene in or prepare for CAV futures (levers), and community-level outcomes of different plausible CAV futures (impacts). Primary research was undertaken first by interviewing practitioners in six mid-sized regions of Illinois to collect inputs about their needs and obstacles to planning for CAVs, as well as to understand their sense of their community’s preparedness for CAVs. The research team then conducted a detailed survey of over 700 residents from the Greater Peoria region to understand their would-be travel behavior and residential location decisions in a CAV future and general attitude toward self-driving cars. These inputs helped identify the key drivers, levers, and impacts to be employed in creating scenarios, a list of selected policies and design, and a framework to select appropriate responses based on the needs and desires of a community. The detailed scenarios are as follows: (1) continuation of the status quo, (2) private multimodal future, and (3) shared multimodal future. The policies and design guidelines are identified for each scenario and are categorized into six sets of action items: general, data and digitization, mobility and traffic, street design, infrastructure, and planning. Specific details of each action item are organized in a format that allows the user to consider each item carefully and to assess its feasibility in a specific region or city. The appendices include background documents related to primary research and, importantly, a handbook for practitioners.

Publisher

Illinois Center for Transportation/Illinois Department of Transportation

Series/Report Name or Number

FHWA-ICT-22-2012

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text

Language

en

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https://hdl.handle.net/2142/114406

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Sponsor(s)/Grant Number(s)

IDOT-R27-211

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No restrictions. This document is available through the National Technical Information Service, Springfield, VA 22161.

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