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Future of Road Transport: Linking People, Goods, and Technologies

Explore the vision for the future of road transport, focusing on effectively managing, integrating, and making transportation universally available. Learn about the challenges, opportunities, and key areas of improvement, such as crash prevention, transportation management, and homeland security.

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Future of Road Transport: Linking People, Goods, and Technologies

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  1. ROAD TRANSPORT – WHAT WILL IT LINK IN THE FUTURE ? C. Michael Walton, Ph.D., P.E. The University of Texas at Austin

  2. Vision for the Future • The ultimate vision for the future is the transformation of surface transportation into an effectively managed, well-integrated, universally available and affordable system which: • provides for the safe, secure, efficient, and economical movement of people and goods • enhances customer satisfaction, and • is compatible with environmental concerns

  3. TransportationTrends (Yr 2025) • World population will grow ~40% • 60% will live in cities  10 million people • 20% of the population in the industrialized world will be over 65

  4. TransportationTrends (Yr 2025) • # of vehicles in world will increase from 730 million  1 billion • Domestic & international marine trade will more than double • # of airline passengers will triple • # of air carrier operations will double

  5. Challenges Human and social costs (e.g., fatalities, injuries) Exploding global population and congestion Aging population Expanding trade and tourism Globalization and economic competitiveness Environmental concerns Terrorist threats Advanced technology Massive Infrastructure GlobalTransportation System 1 of 2

  6. Opportunities Eliminate transportation-related deaths, injuries and crashes Provide access and mobility Reduce travel time and cost Increase throughput of people and freight regardless of weather conditions Eliminate environmental emissions, including noise Enhance system security Advanced technology (e.g., information, nano) GlobalTransportation System 2 of 2

  7. Key Areas • Crash Prevention • Crash Response • Transportation Management • Homeland Security and Natural Disasters • Integrated Network of Transportation Information (INTI)

  8. Crash Prevention Vehicle / Infrastructure Integration (VII) • Cooperative systems are the next frontier • Reduce severity of crashes as well as frequency • Technology exists today, focus is now on deployment • IVI & Telematics • Auto industry committed to concept

  9. Crash Response • Advanced Incident Management and Automatic Crash Notification • New solutions exist • ITS and Public Safety • New stakeholders now coming to the table

  10. Transportation Management • Transportation System Operations & Planning • More than simply building and maintaining highways • ITS solutions are the key to some of the performance measurement objectives • Regional coordination facilitated by ITS solutions

  11. Information for Travelers • Upon a query regarding a trip (such as city to city, or home to work), information is automatically assembled from multiple and overlapping data bases regarding: • Modal choices • Alternative portal to portal times and costs • Existing or predicted congestion • Work zones and construction • Weather conditions • Parking availability and costs • Accommodations, amenities, fuel, services

  12. Information for System Managers • Incident detected through speed/flow anomaly • Pinpointed and identified with CCTV • Information instantaneously available • Classification and location • Commercial vehicle ID • HAZMAT content • ACN data • Police, fire, EMS, help patrol jurisdiction, availability and location • Procedural checklists • Response communication/information dissemination • Dispatch help patrol, wrecker, police, fire, EMS, cleanup • Information dissemination • Interested agencies • Public and private • VMS, HAR, 511, Telematics, PDAs and smart phones, Media

  13. Traveler Information Vehicle Infrastructure Integration • Current traveler information systems are dependent on limited data • Probe vehicles could provide complete network information: • average speeds • delay • weather events • incidents • Tailored information could be provided directly to motorists: • en-route alerts • congestion maps • dynamic routing

  14. Weather Response (Snow, Ice, Fog) Vehicle Infrastructure Integration • A significant cause of highway fatalities • Weather information is critical to travelers • Existing weather information is normally inadequate for highway operations • Sensors on vehicles could provide could provide continuous data on air and road surface temperature, visibility, precipitation, etc.

  15. Homeland Security and Natural Disasters • Preparedness • Prevention • Protection • Response • Recovery

  16. Homeland Security and Natural Disasters • Response and Recovery: • Aggressively invest in the information networks, systems and institutions to enable effective, coordinated, resilient, and dynamic management of facilities, movements and information dissemination in response to attack. • Prevention: • Aggressively invest in the technologies and information networks to enable identification, monitoring and tracking of mobile and non-mobile assets. • Shared databases are necessary for effectiveness

  17. Highway Info Network Homeland Security CVISN DMV (?) Archived Planning Data Weather Service Integrated Network of Transportation Information Transit Info Network Tourism & Travel Border Crossings Digital Map Updates Remote Vehicle Diagnostics Freight Movement & Tracking Electronic Payment Systems Other Info Systems E911 & ACN IVI & Black Box Transportation System Users Transportation System Operators

  18. Road’s Success • Developed transportation infrastructure • Great at the ‘Shell Game’-Find the Car • Sophisticated sensors • Difficult to get required information

  19. Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Connecting Vehicles and Infrastructure Creating an “enabling communication infrastructure” Vehicle Infrastructure Integration

  20. The “Road Sensor” Maybach 57 Vehicle location Destination Traffic Speed Road surface Weather…

  21. Car’s Success • Safety increased tremendously-accident free driving • Learning to play ‘Hide & Seek’-Find the Road • Difficult to get required information

  22. Let’s Talk • Positioning • GPS upgrades & augmentations • Galileo • Communications • Cellular (long range, low data rate, packet based) • Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC, short range, ‘hot spots’, high bandwidth, low latency) • Cost effective

  23. VII Communications Private Sector Data Base Uses Communication Hot Spot (DSRC) Satellite to Traffic Management Center Vehicle (TMC) (GPS) Vehicle - to - Vehicle - Roadside to - (DSRC) Vehicle ( DSRC)

  24. Advancing Technologies Offer a Range of Opportunities in Road Pricing 1 of 2 Examples • Satellite-based Tolling • Germany • Swiss Customs Authority • Dublin Transportation Office • State of Oregon • High-Speed Electronic Tolling • Open Road with either RFID tags or OCR • Overhead enforcement gantries • Toronto 407 ETR • Melbourne CityLink • Sydney Westlink M7

  25. Advancing Technologies Offer a Range of Opportunities in Road Pricing 2 of 2 • Congestion Charging • London • Stockholm pilot • Dynamic HOT Lanes • Automated Speed Enforcement Systems • Transit Smart Cards • Saskatchewan Rural Partnership Haul Program

  26. VII – There Are Issues • Deployment must be nationwide / international • Who will own, install, and operate the communications system? • Who will own and operate the database? • User privacy

  27. Emerging Priorities Summary • Toward Zero Deaths and Zero Injuries • Eliminating Travel Delay • Vehicle and Infrastructure Integration (the INTI concept) • Public Safety • Homeland Security

  28. What Outcomes Can We Achieve? Summary 1 of 2 • Homeland Security • Travel Safety • Protection of Critical and Iconic Infrastructure

  29. What Outcomes Can We Achieve? Summary 2 of 2 • System Reliability and Improved Performance • Improved National and Global Economic Competitiveness • Improved Environment and Quality of Life

  30. “Trucks of the future will have only a man, a dog and a computer on board. The computer will be there to control the truck, the man will be there to watch the gauges, and the dog will be there to bite the man if he attempts to touch anything” Allan Kirson, Motorola

  31. Vision for the Future Conclusion • The ultimate vision for the future is the transformation of surface transportation into an effectively managed, well-integrated, universally available and affordable system

  32. C. MICHAEL WALTON, PhD, PE Ernest H. Cockrell Centennial Chair in EngineeringDepartment of Civil, Architectural and Environmental EngineeringThe University of Texas at Austin1 University Station C1761Austin, TX  78712-0278512-471-1414; Fax 512-471-4995cmwalton@mail.utexas.edu

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