Latest Benefits Updates

Lane departure warning (LDW) and lane departure prevention (LDP) systems were estimated to prevent 59 percent and 67 percent of crashes, respectively, in areas with shoulder widths of at least 3.6 meters.
Date Posted: 10/31/2018 | Source Date:
Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) and Dynamic Speed Harmonization (DSH) applications that share dedicated lanes with HOVs can reduce fuel consumption by more than 16 percent.
Date Posted: 10/30/2018 | Source Date:
Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (CACC) and Dynamic Speed Harmonization (DSH) applications that share dedicated lanes with HOVs can improve throughput by 21 percent with 10 percent market penetration.
Date Posted: 10/30/2018 | Source Date:
Autonomous vehicles that can detect imminent rear-end collisions and quickly accelerate using on-demand power from electric motors can reduce whiplash injuries by 40 to 65 percent.
Date Posted: 10/30/2018 | Source Date:
Highway truck platooning demonstration in North Carolina tests promising technology expected to result in up to 10 percent fuel savings for fleet costumers
Date Posted: 10/30/2018 | Source Date:
Implementing a collision-avoidance algorithm based on safe distance significantly reduces rear-end collisions in heterogenous fleets compared to other methods.
Date Posted: 10/30/2018 | Source Date:
Truck platooning demonstration in Texas observes upper ranges of fuel-savings of 40 percent for the follower vehicle and 20 percent for the leader vehicle.
Date Posted: 10/29/2018 | Source Date:
Study finds that 55.7 percent of all classifiable miles driven were platoonable.
Date Posted: 10/29/2018 | Source Date:
Connected-Vehicle-enabled Transit Signal Priority algorithm results in reduced delays of up to 75 percent
Date Posted: 09/28/2018 | Source Date:
Ramp metering and dynamic speed limits shown to reduce congestion and shorten average travel times by about 2.5 minutes on a 7.8 km stretch of the A25 motorway in France.
Date Posted: 09/26/2018 | Source Date:
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