CTRE

Center for Transportation Research and Education

CTRE|Research|In-Progress

Data Standards for Connected Autonomous Vehicles

Project Details
STATUS

In-Progress

START DATE

12/01/17

END DATE

06/30/19

FOCUS AREAS

Mobility, Data Analytics, and Resiliency

RESEARCH CENTERS InTrans, CTRE, REACTOR
SPONSORS

Iowa Department of Transportation

Researchers
Principal Investigator
Anuj Sharma

Co-Director, REACTOR

Co-Principal Investigator
Neal Hawkins

Director Research Administration, ISU

Co-Principal Investigator
Skylar Knickerbocker

Research Scientist, CTRE

About the research

The transportation industry is evolving, and the deployment of vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications has the potential to serve as a massive test-bed for the internet of things. Vehicles will be communicating with other vehicles, infrastructures, non-motorized vehicles, and possibly other commercial service providers. The infrastructure will be communicating also to enable seamless handshakes when vehicles cross jurisdictional boundaries. Each of these new exchanges necessitate established data standards to enable vendor-neutral connected technologies.

Independent data standards have been developed, for various entities; however, these are not designed for seamless integration. Both private and public entities have a role to ensure these standards are established and followed in any data stream that is being generated in the space of the transportation internet of things.

The focus of this project is to explore and synthesize the data standards that apply to the exchange of data between entities related to the transportation industry that are pertinent to the focus of the Iowa Department of Transportation (DOT).

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