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Automated Vehicle Safety: Heavy Duty Safety Drivers and Remote Operators – Safety Metric Foundations

Publication Date

August 1, 2026

Author(s)

Camila Correa Jullian, Mollie Cohen D'Agostino, Ali Mosleh, Jiaqi Ma

Abstract

This research presents a risk-informed framework to derive metrics characterizing and tracking the safety performance of heavy-duty automated vehicles (HD-AVs) operations. A combination of traditional and novel hazard identification methods are leveraged to study potential human-system interactions in HD-AVs operations, ranging from safety drivers to remote operators.