Intelligent Transportation Trends chpt.9 - Prospective and Implications

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The term Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) was coined over two decades ago to designate applications of information and communication technologies to the operational management of transportation networks. The main promise of ITS has been very consistent over that period: network capacity can be freed up by optimizing traffic controls and empowering users with accurate travel information. It can be debated how much faith practitioners and policy makers have placed in technology by investing their resources, as well as the extent to which Intelligent Transportation Systems have delivered on their promise. However, there is no question that steady and sometimes spectacular advances in computing technologies and usage trickle down to transportation applications in important ways. As a result, new products and services emerge continuously. They include systems that address the direct needs of networks managers, as well as others that are developed in tangential markets (e.g. automotive) or even through non-market mechanisms (e.g. many mobile web applications). This talk presentation reviews major trends in information and communication technologies and demonstrate how each of them is driving innovative transportation services. We attempt to envision how those trends might develop in the future, so that we can finally examine some of their implications for travel demand and network management. There lie both challenges and opportunities for transportation engineers and planners, but either way, profound changes appear inevitable.

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Intelligent Transportation Trends and Perspectives

2011

J.D. Margulici

jdm@novavia.us

www.novaviasolutions.com

Chapter 9: Prospective and Implications

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ITS primer and brief history

State of the art

Information technology trends

Prospective and implications

J.D. Margulici

jdm@novavia.us

www.novaviasolutions.com

Intelligent Transportation

Trends and Perspectives

2011

ITS Applications in 2020

Traffic Operations (monitoring, dispatch…)

Advanced Traffic Management Systems

Advanced Traveler Information Systems

Public Transit Operations

Tolling / Enforcement

Commercial Vehicle Operations

Intelligent Vehicles

Infrastructure-side Active Safety

Parking Management

Mobility Services

ITS Trends and Perspectives - April 2011 3

ITS Applications in 2020

Traffic Operations (monitoring, dispatch…)

ITS Trends and Perspectives - April 2011 4

eCall, next-gen 911 implemented

Software deployed to enable integrated operations

Probe-based monitoring becomes dominant

ITS Applications in 2020

Advanced Traffic Management Systems

ITS Trends and Perspectives - April 2011 5

Evolution will still be slow in the coming decade

Hundreds of miles of managed lanes rolled out

Pricing much more likely to impact congestion

ITS Applications in 2020

Advanced Traveler Information Systems

ITS Trends and Perspectives - April 2011 6

Estimates AND predictions will be quite reliable

Information will be as trivial as weather info

Expect fights / regulations over alternative routes

ITS Applications in 2020

Public Transit Operations

ITS Trends and Perspectives - April 2011 7

Real-time information will be ubiquitous

Service quality will become a management variable

Route planning might become more responsive

ITS Applications in 2020

Tolling / Enforcement

ITS Trends and Perspectives - April 2011 8

Transportation payments integrated with credit cards

DSRC tolling likely in the US, but video backup will remain

VMT pricing will be piloted in the coming decade

Variable / discriminatory pricing will be common place

Car models to ship with speed limiters –end of speeding?

Expect privacy vs. safety debate to become high-profile

ITS Applications in 2020

Commercial Vehicle Operations

ITS Trends and Perspectives - April 2011 9

First automated driving operations to roll out

Safety record will improve significantly

HazMat / security tech. driven by politics, not policies

ITS Applications in 2020

Intelligent Vehicles

ITS Trends and Perspectives - April 2011 10

Dramatic gains in active safety

Some autonomous driving on high-end vehicles

Human errors will cause disproportionate nb. of accidents

ITS Applications in 2020

Infrastructure-side Active Safety

ITS Trends and Perspectives - April 2011 11

This will fall off the radar

Cooperative systems and in-vehicle alerts will do the trick

ITS Applications in 2020

Parking Management

ITS Trends and Perspectives - April 2011 12

Most parking will still be dumb and free…

Cheaper sensors will spread on urban parking spaces

Payments will be by mobile phone / smart cards

ITS Applications in 2020

Mobility Services

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Telematics services standard in every car

Carsharing will grow by order(s) of magnitude

Carpooling will be driven by pricing only

Insurance plans will look more like cell phone plans

Maybe even mobility plans that bundle cars, transit, cabs

Intelligent Transportation Trends and Perspectives

2011

J.D. Margulici

jdm@novavia.us

www.novaviasolutions.com

Part I: Introduction Thank you for your attention!