MVII - Request for Information

MVII - Request for Information

The purpose of this exploratory initiative is to investigate the methods, tools, and techniques that would be enabled by VII technologies and would provide significant mobility benefits to the traveling public. The underlying VII technologies themselves are the subject of another initiative. The USDOT’s vision is that travelers will see significant improvements in personal mobility, and m etropolitan areas will realize significant improvements in the efficient movement of people and goods, through the introduction of mobility applications enabled by VII. The goals of the MVII exploratory initiative are to evaluate the mobility benefits of methods, tools, and techniques that would be enabled by a modest to moderate deployment of VII technology, and to accelerate the deployment of applications with highest mobility benefit.

OBJECTIVE:

The objective of this RFI is to seek broad stakeholder input and interest on the vision, goals, and approach of the MVII Initiative and to identify and gather information on tried, existing, and potential methods, tools, and techniques and evaluation methods.
Respondents to this RFI are requested to consider the service concepts described in the section titled “MVII SERVICE CONCEPTS” and to reply to the questions posed in the section titled “MVII APPROACH AND DEPLOYMENT ISSUES”.

The information will assist the USDOT in identifying which methods, tools, and techniques and evaluation methods should receive further research effort. For methods, tools, and techniques (service concepts), the emphasis is on a medium (5-10 year) deployment horizon that would be achievable with a modest to moderate market penetration of VII equipment. This deployment horizon is shown as Region 2 of Figure 2 described in the appended section entitled “THE PROMISE OF VII MOBILITY APPLICATIONS.” The Government also is interested in longer-range applications that could see initial deployments in Region 2. Methods, tools, and techniques that could easily be done now without VII technology and applications that would require significant VII market penetration for even an initial deployment are out of scope. Methods, tools, and techniques that primarily yield safety benefits are out of scope; such benefits are already being explored through separate initiatives. For evaluation methods, the emphasis is on methods that will effectively and unambiguously demonstrate mobility benefits (or the lack thereto) without requiring a large model deployment. This is primarily a RESEARCH initiative.