== Abstract ==

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Highways play a vivacious role in a country’s economic growth, by facilitating movement of both goods and<br> people from one place to another. Over a short period of time, innovation in automobile and information<br> technology has seen an unprecedented growth and this exploratory research highlights the impact of advent of<br> innovative technologies like Autonomous and Connected Vehicles, Internet of Things applications and Big Data<br> analytics on highway operators, as reflected in the opinions of organizations around the world (highway operators,<br> toll agencies, suppliers, consultants and associations). The opinions were collected on a Likert scale type online<br> survey, which was later tested for its empirical significance with non-parametric Binomial and Wilcoxon signed<br> rank tests, supported by descriptive analysis. The research results clearly indicate that these technologies and<br> products are not far from realization and while on one hand they would facilitate highway operations on the other<br> hand they may pose some serious challenges for operators.

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== Original document ==

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* [https://www.traconference.eu https://www.traconference.eu]

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* [https://zenodo.org/record/1485176 https://zenodo.org/record/1485176] under the license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

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* [https://zenodo.org/record/1485176 https://zenodo.org/record/1485176],

: [http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1485175 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1485175] under the license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

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* [https://zenodo.org/record/1485176 https://zenodo.org/record/1485176],

: [http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1485176 http://dx.doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.1485176] under the license http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/legalcode

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DOIS: 10.5281/zenodo.1485176 10.5281/zenodo.1485175

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