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Use a modular project structure and focus on high priority objectives and project components when deploying complex ITS projects such as those with connected vehicle technologies.

Program managers involved with conducting the connected vehicle safety pilot model deployment (SPMD) found it important to define critical activities that are necessary to support the primary…
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01/31/2017

Develop a focused outreach plan that identifies all stakeholders, the message appropriate for each stakeholder and the method in which you will reach the stakeholders when embarking on a connected vehicle project.

The Test Conductor of the connected vehicle safety pilot model deployment (SPMD) was tasked with developing and implementing an Outreach Plan, intended to disseminate results of the program and…
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01/31/2017

Perform a thorough and thoughtful analysis when scoping, sizing, and identifying the geographic location of connected vehicle projects, and ensure that the strategies used to recruit test subjects or drivers are consistent with these assumptions and

Setting up the experiment, including selection of the test area and coordinating, preparing, and managing the vehicle fleets and drivers was of critical importance to the Safety Pilot Model…
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01/31/2017
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Clearly communicate requirements and testing procedures to connected vehicle device developers, and allow for industry input and iteration for less mature devices.

The USDOT developed and implemented a collaborative process through which the DSRC device development community would eventually be capable of supplying devices for the Safety Pilot Model Deployment…
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01/31/2017

Specify interoperability testing requirements and steps as part of the connected vehicle device requirements prior to starting multiple rounds of testing, feedback, reset, and retesting.

The Test Conductor conducted device interoperability testing to verify the ability of the vehicle-based and infrastructure-based devices produced by various suppliers to exchange, decode, log, and/or…
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Conduct a data collection pilot test to validate end-to-end data acquisition, transfer, processing, and quality assessment processes.

One of the primary objectives of the Safety Pilot Program was to collect data to support the 2013 NHTSA agency decision on light vehicles. In support of this objective, the Independent Evaluator (IE…
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01/31/2017