ACE 2.0 Program - Systems Engineering

Project Goal:

The Volpe team will provide technical support for planning, data analysis, simulation, demonstration, and test and independent evaluation of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), automated driving systems (ADS), and cooperative driving automation (CDA) for commercial motor vehicles (CMVs) for the Automated Commercial Motor Vehicle Evaluation (ACE) Program

Background:

The Volpe National Transportation Systems Center (Volpe Center) has been providing technical support to the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) Office of Analysis, Research, and Technology in the test and independent evaluation of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), automated driving systems (ADS), and cooperative driving automation (CDA) for commercial motor vehicles (CMVs). The Volpe Center has supported FMCSA’s Automated CMV Evaluation (ACE) program in test planning and data analysis. The ACE program is a multi-faceted research, development, and test program that leverages government, academic, and industry partnerships. It focuses on roadside inspections of ADS-equipped CMVs, training of enforcement personnel, CMV ADAS, ADS, CDA performance measures of safety effectiveness, CMV driver readiness for advanced technologies, CMV platooning, and CMV cybersecurity.

Summary:

The Volpe team will provide technical support in planning, data, simulation, demonstration,

and test and independent evaluation of advanced driver assistance systems (ADAS), automated driving systems (ADS), and cooperative driving automation (CDA) for commercial motor vehicles (CMVs); and overall technical support to the Automated CMV Evaluation (ACE)

Program as needed, including but not limited to ACE Program management and outreach, evaluation of ACE Program documents and proposed and planned ACE Program activities, human actors research, system dynamics modeling and economic analyses.

Contractor:

Volpe Center