Vehicular Wireless Communication Technology: Who Pays

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Vehicular Wireless Communication Technology Who
Pays?
Panel presentation WiVec, Sept 22, 2008, Calgary

• Susan Dickey, Ph. D
• Software Functional Manager
• California PATH/UC Berkeley
• dickey_at_path.berkeley.edu

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Presentation topics

• Describe vehicular communication research history
  and challenges at California PATH (Partners for
  Advance Transit and Highways)
• Present current VII (Vehicle Infrastructure
  Integration) California testbed and GEMS
  (Group-enabled Mobility and Safety) activities
• Discuss challenges for funding initial DSRC/WAVE
  deployment and some application ideas
• Note Ideas are the authors own and not
  necessarily those of her funding agencies.

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Safety Mobility Challenges in California

• Safety
• 1 Million vehicle crashes each year
• 210,000 are injury-crashes, with 4,000 Fatalities
• About 25 of fatalities occur at intersections,
  another 25 are lane/roadway departures
• Total Cost more than 25 Billion per year
• Mobility
• 560,000 hours of delay on average each day
• 30 of this delay is caused by incidents
• Total Cost more than 21 Billion per year

Caltrans Improves Mobility Across California
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Wireless Communicationsa tool to meet these
challenges

• Research at California PATH has been
  investigating wireless communications, vehicle to
  vehicle and vehicle to roadside, for some time
• Automated Highway Systems (1997-2003)
• Active Safety Systems (2002-present)
• Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance
  Systems/Smart Intersections
• Situational Awareness
• VII California Testbed (2004-present)
• Connected Traveler (2008-present)

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Vehicular Networking Prototypes

• Situational awareness (WiFi, 2004), blind spot/
  lane assist, intersection assistant, neighboring
  vehicle map real-time

R2V, V2R communications (Denso WAVE Radio Module,
2004), broadcast freeway exit info and signage,
vehicle send speed and location
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California PATH Smart Intersection (2004-present)

• Initially WiFi was used to deliver in-vehicle
  warnings and enable SV/POV/RSE communication for
  driver behavior research.
• Kapsch-TraffiCom IEEE 1609 capable MCNU has been
  installed (on pole at lower right of intersection)

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VII California Test Bed (2005 to Present)

• 60 miles right of way
• Denso and Kapsch RSE
• Test bed applications
• Traveler information using 511
• Electronic payment and toll collection
• Ramp metering
• Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance
• Curve Over-Speed warning
• HA-NDGPS
• Vehicle information and diagnostics
• Public agency and auto industry partners.

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The Connected Traveler (2008) two projects to
get results now

• Mobile Millennium (CCIT)
• Builds upon the success of the Mobile Century
  Experiment
• Very much a Private Sector business model
• Public Sector becomes just another consumer of
  the traffic data
• Group-Enabled Mobility and Safety (GEMS) (PATH)
• A Gateway connects the consumer mobile device
  in the vehicle to roadside infrastructure
• The Gateway enables new transit services too
• Several transit agencies are very interested in
  these services
• The Public Sector seeks to be the catalyst in
  triggering Private Sector development

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Connected Traveler Who is paying?

• Public Partners USDOT, Caltrans,Metropolitan
  Transportation Commission (MTC), Santa Clara
  Valley Transportation Authority (VTA),San Mateo
  County Transit District (Samtrans)
• Academic PartnersCalifornia Center for
  Innovative Transportation (CCIT), Partners for
  Advanced Transit and Highways (PATH)
• Private Partners Nokia, NAVTEQ, Nissan
• Total Project Budget 12.4 million
• Federal Share 2.9 million
• Caltrans Share 4.2 million
• Nokia Share 2.5 million
• NAVTEQ Share 2.0 million
• UC Berkeley Share 700 thousand
• Nissan Share 30 thousand

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GEMS Multi-Network
DSRC RSE
GPS
Handset
Internet Server
Gateway
Wi-Fi RSE
Ad-hoc
Ad-hoc
Gateway in other car
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GEMSMulti-Device
Browser based
www.connected-traveler.org/tellmeaboutmyroad www.c
onnected-traveler.org/bestroute www.connected-trav
eler.org/sendprobedata
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GEMS Plans for the Next Year

• GEMS Services will be demonstrated at ITSA World
  Congress, November 16-20, 2008, New York City
• Field Evaluation Plans Underway
• Safety
• Safety Advisories
• Pedestrian Watch Out for Me
• Mobility and ePayment
• Bridge Tolling
• Integrated Plan Transit Diversion ? Smart
  Parking ? BART NFC Payment
• South Bay
• Valley Transportation Authority (CMA with HOT
  Lane Plans)
• Stanford Area
• Stanford Margeurite Shuttle
• Surrounding Trip Generation Points

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Who is going to buy DSRC/WAVE?

• Many soft safety/mobility applications can be
  done w/o high availability/low latency
  (DSRC/WAVE) communication .
• Hard safety applications cannot be done until
  most vehicles have it.
• No rational consumer will be an early adopter,
  (unless it is trendy?)
• Will government pay?

U.S. consumer spending on transportation is
estimated at over 860 billion annually. (7825
per household in 2002)
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The Trend to Ubiquitous Information

• Geo-enabled award recipients Android Handset
  Developer Challenge

• cab4me enables you to easily order a cab to your
  current location with a single click, worldwide.
• BreadCrumbz shows you real pictures of your route
  as you navigate
• Pocket Journey is the mobile application for
  delivery of, and the marketplace for, high
  quality, location-specific multimedia.

• Pebblebox allows the user to publish and discover
  local events, theater schedules, housing,
  restaurants
• Ecorio automatically tracks your mobile carbon
  footprint, suggests transit and carpooling
  alternatives.
• Piggyback is a real-time carpooling application
  for mobile phones.

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Using the 5.9 Ghz ITS DSRC band for
transportation infrastructure applications

• A variety of special uses to bootstrap use of
  DSRC until there is a critical mass of equipped
  vehicles and RSE services.
• DSRC for late-night traffic signal actuation
  (cheaper than loop detectors, a carrot for
  drivers to buy it)
• Curve overspeed warnings and other special alerts
  for heavy vehicle fleets
• Transit applications (no need for kiosks or
  central servers for arrival time or connection
  info)
• Signal Phase and Timing broadcasts, as well as
  alerts and V2V communication, for public safety
  and emergency vehicle fleets.
• What else?

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Lets talk about it! Thank you!
For more information, please refer
toviicalifornia.org This slide presentation is
atvii.path.berkeley.edu/1609_wave/wivec08