Impacts of Automated Vehicles on Highway Infrastructure (Source FHWA)

The goal of this study was to collect input from stakeholders regarding how automated driving technologies might interact with highway infrastructure assets—which technologies interact with which assets and how the design, operation, and maintenance of those assets might evolve to increase the performance of the technologies without sacrificing the needs of human drivers. The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) sought input on how infrastructure might evolve in a cost-effective manner based on the limited resources and vastly different paces of development within the infrastructure, automotive, and technology industries. This study covers current concerns and thoughts on the potential impacts of automated vehicles (AVs) on highway infrastructure while providing FHWA with information to stakeholders as they prepare for the eventual infrastructure evolution determined by AVs.