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Multimodal Alerting Interface with Networked Short-range Transmissions (MAIN-ST)

Award Information
Agency: Department of Transportation
Branch: N/A
Contract: DTRT5716C10023
Agency Tracking Number: 161FH2020
Amount: $149,986.00
Phase: Phase I
Program: SBIR
Solicitation Topic Code: 161FH2
Solicitation Number: DTRT5716RSBIR1
Timeline
Solicitation Year: 2016
Award Year: 2016
Award Start Date (Proposal Award Date): 2016-05-02
Award End Date (Contract End Date): 2016-11-02
Small Business Information
625 Mount Auburn Street
Cambridge, MA 02138
United States
DUNS: 115243701
HUBZone Owned: No
Woman Owned: No
Socially and Economically Disadvantaged: No
Principal Investigator
 Michael Jenkins
 Scientist III
 (617) 491-3474
 mjenkins@cra.com
Business Contact
 Mark Felix
Title: Director, Contracts
Phone: (617) 491-3474
Email: contracts@cra.com
Research Institution
N/A
Abstract

The connected vehicles program is a multimodal U.S. DOT initiative that uses a dedicated wireless communication technology to enable safer, smarter, and greener surface transportation. While significant efforts are being made to bring motor vehicles and transportation infrastructure onto this connected network, bicycles have been largely overlooked. As a result, a significant need exists to bring cyclists onto this network, both to enable other connected vehicles and infrastructure to be made aware of their presence, and to enable cyclists to take advantage of the safety and transportation benefits available when receiving
information from other connected entities. To address this challenge, we are proposing to design and demonstrate a Multimodal Alerting Interface with Networked Short‐range Transmissions (MAIN‐ST). MAIN‐ST will bring cyclists onto the vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) networks using a hardware‐agnostic approach, whereby a
commercially available DSRC radio and optionally deployable state‐sensing hardware can be deployed to generate a robust basic safety message for bicycles (BSM‐B). In addition, MAIN‐ST allows cyclists to take advantage of being on these networks by providing automated hazard assessment capabilities with a multimodal alerting symbology designed to communicate
hazard information to cyclists in an intuitive and non‐distracting format.

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