TIMELINE 2011 The DOT’s Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) announced the Connected Vehicle Technology Challenge. The competition sought ideas on how to use wireless technology between vehicles. The challenge also ended in the same year and went onto fund six
The University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute gained funding from DOT to move forward with connected vehicle technology tests.
research concepts on V2V technology.
2013
2015
DOT announced that, through
The DOT projects that
RITA, it would enter into eight
FHWA will release early
test bed agreements to test
deployment guidelines of
vehicle communications.
V2V technology around this timeframe.
2014 The Michigan test bed will operate, in collaboration with the University of Michigan, beginning in September,
2012 The ITS Joint Program Office
according to projections. This will be in time for the 2014 World Congress on ITS in Detroit.
released three reports on connected vehicle policies, relating concepts of governance for
The United States and European
the integration of V2V and V2I
Union worked together to release a
technology.
report on how the two would work together to develop connected vehicle standards. The DOT and Europe’s Commission Directorate General for Communication Networks, Content and Technology displayed their efforts at the ITS World Congress in Vienna.
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