{"id":683,"date":"2017-01-24T22:19:00","date_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/2017\/01\/24\/trend-2018-the-year-of-self-driving-cars-tamu-5-tx-cities\/"},"modified":"2017-01-24T22:19:00","modified_gmt":"2017-01-24T22:19:00","slug":"trend-2018-the-year-of-self-driving-cars-tamu-5-tx-cities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/trend-2018-the-year-of-self-driving-cars-tamu-5-tx-cities\/","title":{"rendered":"TREND. 2018. The Year of Self Driving Cars. TAMU + 5 TX Cities."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The self driving car program:<\/strong>\u00a0The\u00a0U.S. Department of Transportation&#8217;s\u00a0national Automated Vehicle (AV) Proving Ground<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Texas designation as an AV Proving Ground:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tti.tamu.edu\/group\/connected-vehicles\/files\/2014\/02\/Texas-AV-Proving-Ground-Partnership-Proposal-12192016-Final-updated.pdf\" style=\"color:rgb(153,0,0);text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\">Texas AV Proving Grounds\u00a0Partnership<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texas Department of Transportation<\/li>\n<li>Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute<\/li>\n<li>The University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Center for Transportation Research<\/li>\n<li>Southwest Research Institute<\/li>\n<li>32 municipal and regional partners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Are there others in the U.S.?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, 9 in total<\/p>\n<p><strong>The real world roadway scenarios to be tested by self driving cars in the Texas AV Proving Grounds Partnership:<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Austin Area \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Austin-Bergstrom International Airport and Riverside Drive corridor<\/li>\n<li><strong>Houston Area \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Texas Medical Center, Houston METRO HOV lanes, and Port of Houston<\/li>\n<li><strong>Dallas\/Fort Worth\/Arlington Area \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0UTA campus, Arlington streets, I-30 corridor and managed lanes<\/li>\n<li><strong>San Antonio Area \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Fredericksburg Road\/Medical Drive corridor and bus rapid transit system<\/li>\n<li><strong>El Paso Area \u2013<\/strong>\u00a0Tornillo\/Guadalupe Port of Entry<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/tti.tamu.edu\/2017\/01\/24\/texas-designated-as-automated-vehicles-proving-ground\/\">Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute |\u00a0Texas Designated as Automated Vehicles Proving Ground<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p><strong>The self driving car program:<\/strong>\u00a0The\u00a0U.S. Department of Transportation&#8217;s\u00a0national Automated Vehicle (AV) Proving Ground<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Texas designation as an AV Proving Ground:\u00a0<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/tti.tamu.edu\/group\/connected-vehicles\/files\/2014\/02\/Texas-AV-Proving-Ground-Partnership-Proposal-12192016-Final-updated.pdf\" style=\"color:rgb(153,0,0);text-decoration:none;border-bottom-width:1px;border-bottom-style:dotted;border-bottom-color:rgb(204,204,204);font-family:Arial, sans-serif;\">Texas AV Proving Grounds\u00a0Partnership<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Texas Department of Transportation<\/li>\n<li>Texas A&amp;M Transportation Institute<\/li>\n<li>The University of Texas at Austin\u2019s Center for Transportation Research<\/li>\n<li>Southwest Research Institute<\/li>\n<li>32 municipal and regional partners<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Are there others in the U.S.?<\/strong>\u00a0Yes, 9 in total<\/p>\n<p><strong>The real world roadway scenarios to\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10,26,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-legislative-trend","category-regulatory-trend","category-self-driving-cars","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=683"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/informedintel.com\/account\/transportation\/wp-transportation\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}