New York City Connected Vehicle Pilot

The Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment project for NYC is primarily focused on using DSRC (Dedicated Short-Range Communications) technology and the Connected Vehicle message set standards to reduce the frequency and severity of crashes between instrumented vehicles (V2V) and between instrumented vehicles and CV equipped intersections (V2I). The NYC CVPD will deploy two pedestrian oriented applications, one of which is intended to assist visually impaired pedestrians in safely crossing the streets at signalized intersections.

The project will equip selected pedestrians with a Personal Information Devices (PID) that describe the current status of the traffic signals and the geometric details of the intersection.

Researchers at C2SMART are managing the pedestrian application interaction and performance metric evaluation of this project. This includes procurement and management of devices, pedestrian coordination and training to use devices, and database management. The IRB certification to carry out the research was obtained and all the researchers in this project are IRB certified.

Safety Performance Evaluation

The CV Pilot project area encompasses three distinct areas in the boroughs of Manhattan and Brooklyn. Multiple vehicles including taxi & limousine, sanitation trucks, MTA buses, commercial vehicles, and pedestrians will be equipped with CV devices.

The C2SMART Center will be in charge of the safety performance evaluation component of this project. Using both stimulated and observed Connected Vehicles data, there will be both before and after studies conducted. For the simulation, the main study area will be Flatbush Avenue in Brooklyn.

Time-to-collision, a commonly used safety performance evaluation measure, will be calculated and used in this project as an indicator for safety.