User attitudes to automated highway systems

The paper reports on research undertaken for the Highways Agency in the UK on user attitudes and acceptance of intelligent vehicle and highway systems including: 1. An international review of research activities, government policies and deployment plans for intelligent vehicle systems (IVS) and automated highway systems (AHS) and of previous work carried out by leading researchers on user attitudes to these systems. 2. A market research programme involving qualitative and quantitative research that has been conducted to assess attitudes and levels of social acceptance of automated highway technologies among different categories of road users