Pushing the boundaries of NextG technology applications
With Qualcomm, Audi, American Towers, and VDOT, VTTI is developing Cellular Vehicle to Everything (C-V2X) applications for use cases that include work zone interactions between vehicles and workers in work zones and Traffic Light Information (TLI). The concepts were developed VTTI’s Smart Roads and will be migrated to the Virginia Connected Corridor in Northern Virginia.
Revolutionizing connected and automated vehicles to lower energy use
Through a novel Eco-Cooperative Automated Control system that integrates vehicle dynamics control with connected-and-automated vehicle applications, VTTI is improving existing energy-saving technologies in a full range of vehicles, from internal combustion engine to battery-only electric and hybrid electric.
Making the roads safer by moving from concept to operations in heavy trucks
For NHTSA, VTTI is helping make the roads safer by moving ADS and ADAS heavy vehicle research activities from concept to operations. VTTI has developed a systematic framework of the direct and indirect impacts of ADS/ADAS-equipped heavy vehicles across the implementation stages of development, test/demonstration, deployment, licensure, operation, and maintenance/repair.
Striving toward zero lives lost, VTTI researchers focus on pedestrian safety
To improve road user safety overall, leaders in transit, government, industry, and academia—including VTTI—are joining forces to evaluate an innovative Pedestrian Avoidance Safety System for transit buses. If successful, the technology could be implemented in transit fleets across the nation.
Deploying and testing automated shuttles in urban settings with first-of-its-kind data methods
For Fairfax Country, VTTI is helping deploy and test SAE Level 4 shuttles, providing traffic signal information-to-shuttle to support safe intersection operations. Operations include mixed traffic on an urban circulator route (the most complex route to date).
Building inclusivity through new solutions to the first / last mile challenge
VTTI’s newest automated vehicle is a low-speed, electric shuttle that will be used initially for a mobility study on the institute’s entry road. Researchers at VTTI and North Carolina A&T State University are evaluating whether an automated shuttle system could improve public transportation access for vulnerable road users, such as the elderly and people with disabilities.