# Presentation: 542903

## Overview of:

**The Intelligent Vehicle Initiative  (IVI)**
**Bill Knee’**
**September 16, 1998**
**The Department of Transportation is merging all vehicle focused ITS activities into a multi-agency research and development program, entitled the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI).  The IVI emphasizes the significant and continuing role of the driver in highway safety.**

**The National Intelligent Truck Consortium (NITS) Workshop**

## IVI Program Overview:

** ****NHTSA****,**
** ****FHWA****, and**
** ****FTA**
**- which leverages the work each agency has done on:**
** ****collision avoidance,**
** ****automated highways and**
** ****advanced vehicle controls****.**

**IVI Program Overview:**

## IVI Program Objectives:

**that will improve significantly the ****safety**** of motor operations. **
**2)  To ****develop and validate performance specifications and design guidelines ****for IVI systems that will be deployed in motor vehicles in the next 10 years. **
**3)  To ****demonstrate IVI systems and evaluate their impact on driving safety, **_**operating efficiency, value, and mobility**__**. **_

**IVI Program Objectives:**

**driving information (Gen-0),**
**driver assistance (Gen-1), and**
**control systems (Gen-2)**

## IVI Program Objectives:

**5)  To recognize the need for balance between public-benefit and private incentive, and to ensure that reasonably achievable safety benefits are identified. **
**6)  To ****identify refined and more detailed estimates of benefits ****in order to assess which infrastructure deployment investments can be justified and to stimulate new safety products. **
**7)  To identify and ****conduct the research and development ****required to achieve increased levels of IVI system capability.**

**IVI Program Objectives:**

## Provisions that IVI will Include:

** ****recommending control actions,**
** ****intervening with driver control, and**
** ****introducing temporary or partial automated control ****	****of the vehicle in hazardous situations.**

**Provisions that IVI will Include:**

## IVI systems will improve mobility and highway efficiency through:

**the application of selected motorist information services (e.g., navigation, adverse weather information and traveler assistance features).**
**integration and installation of sensors, processors, actuators, control systems, driver displays and information systems**
**communications technologies and other cooperative infrastructure systems will be added to roadways to enhance IVI system capabilities**

## IVI Platforms

**       ****sports and utility vehicles),**
** ****Commercial Vehicles,**
** ****Transit Vehicles (e.g., buses),**
** ****Special Vehicles (e.g., vehicles for emergency**
**      ****response, enforcement, and highway maintenance).**

**IVI Platforms**

** ****human factors,**
** ****advanced driver warning,**
** ****vehicle control technologies,**

**Areas of IVI Research Interest/Need**

** ****system integration,**
** ****standards development, and**
** ****liability hurdles.**

## Where Did IVI Come From?

**The Automated Highway System (AHS) was expensive ($30M-$35M per year for 6 years), and had a vision that was too distant for existing problems (congestion, the environment,  and safety) - ****TEA-21, through IVI will re-orient AHS for more near-term results.**
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** ****Safety (motor vehicle crashes and other incidents exact high penalties in fatalities, injuries, and economic costs resulting from emergency and health care, property damage, and highway congestion.  NHTSA estimates that the financial burden of these crashes exceeds $150 billion per year. )**
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** ****Desire to capitalize on the successes of ISTEA**
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** ****Desire to strongly move to deployment within TEA-21**

## IVI industrial context:

**IVI Systems must be commercially viable.**
**Products should be implementable in the near-term.**
**Uniformity and standardization of interfaces and ****	****	****protocols will help.**
**Current Original Equipment Manufacturers initiatives ****	****should be embraced.**
**Required infrastructure components must be available ****	****before the private sector will provide vehicle ****	****	****components for cooperative systems. **
**Driver acceptance must be demonstrated.  **

**IVI industrial context:**

## IVI Program Funding

** ****The overall federal IVI funding,based on the TEA-21**
**         ****legislation will be in the $25-30 million range**
**         ****annually over the next six years.**
** ****There will be a mix of fully funded government ****	****	****sponsored research as well as collaboration with ****	****industry and other stakeholders under cooperative ****	****agreements.**
** ****The cooperative agreements will require a minimum**
**        ****cost share ranging from 20% to 50%.**
** ****Strong industry participation is being encouraged.**

**IVI Program Funding**

## The 26 IVI User Services (per the RFI)

**Safety Services (9)**
**Safety Impacting Services (4)**
**Platform Specific Services - Commercial Vehicle (5)**
**Platform Specific Services - Transit Vehicles (4)**
**Platform Specific Services - Special Vehicle (1)**
**Supporting Services (3)**

**The 26 IVI User Services (per the RFI)**

**14. ****Driver Condition Warning **
**15. ****Vehicle Diagnostics **
**16. ****Cargo Identification **
**17. ****Automated Transactions **
**18. ****Safety Event Recorder**

## Recent User Services Emphasis

**roadway departure warning,**
**forward collision warning,**
**vehicle diagnostics/prognostics and**
**vehicle stability control.**

**lane change warnings,**
**merge warning,**
**lane departure warning, **
**vehicle diagnostics and stability control, and**
**lane position indication.**

**Recent User Services Emphasis**

**Especially for the CVO Area**

## Strategic Planning Group

**Steering Committee (NHTSA, FHWA, FTA; executives from GM, Ford, Chrysler; and executives from the trucking, highway and user communities)**

**Peer Review Panel**

**Co-Program Managers August Burgette (NHTSA) John MacGowan (FHWA)**

**Light **_**Vehicles (LV) **_**Dave Smith (NHTSA)**

**Commercial **_**Vehicles (CV) **_**Kate Hartman (FHWA)**

**Transit **_**Vehicle (TV) **_**Bryan Cronin (FTA)**

**Special **_**Vehicles (SV) **_**John Harding (FHWA)**

**CV Working Group**

**SV Working Group**

**TV Working Group**

**LV Working Group**

## In Conclusion:

**IVI is Real, and Momentum is increasing:**

- 1st BAAs/RFPs may be out as early as the end-of-September.
- Consortia and Partnerships are forming NOW.

**Emphasis will be on Safety, Efficiency, Value  and Mobility**

**IVI is a Significant Effort That is Achievable Through Strong Government-Industry Alliances**