Cooperative Automated Transportation
Cooperative Automated Transportation includes both connected and automated vehicles. Connected vehicles are equipped with safe, interoperable networked wireless communications among:
- Vehicles using vehicle-to-vehicle communications
- Infrastructure using vehicle-to-infrastructure communications
- Passengers’ personal communications devices using vehicle-to-everything communications
Iowa DOT leads and supports a variety of coordination, planning, research, pilot, and deployment activities related to cooperative and automated transportation within Iowa and at the national level.