Evaluation of the Exploratory Advanced Research Program

Evaluation of the Exploratory Advanced Research Program
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Total Pages: 72
Release: 2022
Genre: Artificial intelligence
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Beginning in 2019, the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) requested that TRB be directly involved in managing evaluations of selected projects undertaken by the agency. The TRB Cooperative Research Program's CRP Special Release 2: Evaluation of the Exploratory Advanced Research Program presents an evaluation of the program, which works on a range of topics, including human-automation interaction, safety improvements through advanced data analysis, innovative materials for highway pavements and structures, methods to improve transportation system resilience, and technologies for alternative fuels development.

Exploratory Advanced Research Program

Exploratory Advanced Research Program
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Total Pages: 12
Release: 2015
Genre: Highway engineering
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The flagship dataset to emerge from the Transportation Research Board's second Strategic Highway Research Program (SHRP 2) study is the naturalistic driving study (NDS). The study is a focus on driver behavior and addresses the notion that it is possible to obtain more and better information on what people do when they drive--not just in the moments before they get into a collision but on a day-to-day basis. Researchers for the NDS have gathered over 1.2-million hours of data, collected from the vehicles of approximately 3,000 volunteers going about their regular activities. Each of those vehicles was equipped with four cameras, a Global Positioning System (GPS), and many other sensors. Over 2 petabytes (2,000 terabytes) of data has been generated over a 2-year period, a majority of which comes from video captured by the onboard cameras. The massive size of the video data creates a serious data bottleneck for researchers and makes traditional methods for identifying features in the data, such as objects, behaviors, roadside design details, and surrounding vehicles, completely inadequate. Several video analytics research projects, funded by the EAR Program, aim to make data processing and analysis more practical by focusing on increasing the automation of video data decoding. The goal of these EAR Program projects is to assist researchers through the use of an algorithm designed to narrow down the amount of data researchers need to manually review. There are six ongoing video analytics projects funded by the EAR Program, all tasked with developing technology to make it feasible for a researcher to quickly and flexibly get what they need from an extremely large dataset. The following pages contain summary descriptions of the EAR Program-sponsored research projects investigating video analytics.

Program Solicitation

Program Solicitation
Author: National Science Foundation (U.S.). Office of Exploratory Research and Problem Assessment
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Total Pages: 26
Release: 1974
Genre: Federal aid to research
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Federal Evaluations ...

Federal Evaluations ...
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Total Pages: 1020
Release: 1980
Genre: Evaluation research (Social action programs)
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Contains an inventory of evaluation reports produced by and for selected Federal agencies, including GAO evaluation reports that relate to the programs of those agencies

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Armed Services
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Total Pages: 1786
Release: 1969
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