Connected and Automated Vehicles

Preparing North Texas for a future of connected and automated transportation.

Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) is the collective term for an array of interconnected technologies.
 
"Connected" vehicle technology represents communications technologies that function vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V), vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I), vehicle-to-cloud or other communication destinations.  Together, these are often referred to as vehicle-to-everything (V2X) technologies.  
 
"Automated" vehicles are vehicles equipped with technology that allows them offer everything from advanced driver assistance, parking assistance, and even includes fully self-driving capabilities.  These technologies follow a scale from 1 to 5, where 1 represents cruise-control and anti-lock breaking features, and 5 represents the highest-functioning self-driving tech.
 
Considered together, these technologies are already leading to innovative approaches to transportation and infrastructure design and operations.  Increasingly, traffic signals are sharing data with each other and with vehicles on the road, automakers are equipping their new-model vehicles with data collection and sharing technology, and open-source transportation data tools are becoming a feature of everyday life (e.g., Waze).  
 
The technology is developing quickly, and here at NCTCOG, not only are we keeping a close eye on the state-of-the-art, but we're also ensuring that North Texas is a leader in preparing and implementing the best of these technologies.  

For more information about what this means and what our work looks like, please visit the pages linked below.