The Advanced Research Projects Agency Energy (ARPA-E) is seeking researchers interested in partnering on “Traveler Response Architecture using Novel Signaling for Network Efficiency in Transportation” (TRANSNET). The overall objective of the TRANSNET program is to reduce energy use in a multi-modal, urban transportation network through network control mechanisms employing personalized signaling. More information is located under RFI-0000013 located at https://arpa-e-foa.energy.gov/.
See the Washington Post article featuring Raj Ragunathan's work on Autonomous Transportation Systems.
An autonomous car takes a capital test run.
Driverless cars are coming. And those of us who drive in Washington know that the city offers its own particular version of driver hell. What we don’t know is what will happen when the autocar finds itself in that hell. So we set out on a summer afternoon to see how a driverless car could do on the streets of the nation’s capital.