The Future of ITS

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The Future of ITS

• Shelley Row
• Director, ITS Joint Program Office
• Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• U.S. Department of Transportation

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A Changing Paradigm for ITS

• ITS is, once again, enabling a paradigm shift,
  driven by
• Complexity of problems
• Innovative wireless technologies
• Our challenge
• Embrace new approaches
• Leverage innovation and the market
• Without
• Stopping progress, as we prepare for
• Emerging opportunities

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The Paradigm Shift for ITS

• The first paradigm shift for ITS Operations
• ITS Program Headlines
• Field operational tests
• Deployment
• Integration
• The second paradigm shift for ITS

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The Paradigm Shift for ITS

• Connectivity
• Safety technologies in all vehicles
• Multi-modal solutions
• Seamless Service for
• System management
• Travel information
• Pricing

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Connectivity

• Safety Technology for Situational Awareness
  Around the Vehicle
• Autonomous technology
• Vehicle to vehicle connectivity
• Vehicle to infrastructure connectivity
• Initially inform driver
• Ultimately not crash

DSRC is key
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Connectivity

• Multi-modal Solutions for Situational Awareness
  of the Transportation System
• Modal choice
• Real-time information on all roads, all modes
• Freeways and arterials
• Transit
• Parking
• Pricing

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Draft Strategic Initiatives, Goals, and Objectives

• Strategic Initiative - Safety - Outcome
  Significant reduction in crashes, injuries,
  fatalities and associated economic costs
• Goal Transformative Safety thru Vehicle and
  Infrastructure Connectivity
• Objective Enable active safety applications
  i.e., applications designed to assist vehicle
  operators avoid imminent crashes (low latency).
• Objective Improve safety by providing in-vehicle
  crash avoidance warnings (not low latency).
• Objective Perform necessary testing to enable
  potential safety regulations
• Objective Provide foundation for technologies to
  enable partial or full vehicle control.
• Objective Enable vehicle-based applications such
  that they achieve program objectives without
  negatively impacting driver focus
• Objective Harmonize standards and architecture
  internationally around the vehicle platform

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Draft Strategic Initiatives, Goals, and Objectives

• Strategic Initiative - Mobility Outcome
  Significant improvements in mobility that result
  in more sustainable and livable communities
• Goal Capture complete real-time information on
  all roads and all modes to support
  transformational system performance
• Objective Capture real-time mobility data from
  vehicles
• Objective Capture real-time system cost
  information across modes (parking, transit,
  pricing, tolling, etc)
• Objective Integrate real-time mobility data from
  all sources for use in transportation management
  and performance improvement

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Draft Strategic Initiatives, Goals, and Objectives

• Strategic Initiative - Mobility Outcome
  Significant improvements in mobility that result
  in more sustainable and livable communities
• Goal Achieve transformative transportation
  management and system performance through
  applications of vehicle and infrastructure
  connectivity
• Objective Create applications and strategies for
  the use of real-time mobility cost data from
  all sources for use by transportation managers
• Objective Create applications and strategies for
  the use of real-time mobility cost data to
  ensure safe and secure freight movement
• Objective Create information from real-time
  mobility and cost data from all sources for use
  in traveler information

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Draft Strategic Initiatives, Goals, and Objectives

• Strategic Initiative - Mobility Outcome
  Significant improvements in mobility that result
  in more sustainable and livable communities
• Goal Realize Next Generation electronic
  payment systems that support transformational
  system performance
• Objective Create interoperability of electronic
  payment systems across modes (parking, transit,
  pricing, tolls, etc.)
• Objective Enable technology solutions in support
  of national policy for transportation financing

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Draft Strategic Initiatives, Goals, and Objectives

• Strategic Initiative - Environment - Outcome
  Reduced transportation impact on the environment
  and improved livability
• Goal Enable environmental management through
  vehicle and infrastructure connectivity
• Objective Capture environmental data from
  vehicles
• Objective Integrate real-time mobility data from
  all sources for use in transportation management
  and performance improvement
• Objective Create applications that use real-time
  data on environmental impact for use by
  transportation managers
• Objective Create information from real-time data
  on environmental impact for use in traveler
  information

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Draft Strategic Initiatives, Goals, and Objectives

• Strategic Initiative Policy foundation for
  deployment - Outcome New institutional policy
  and potential regulatory requirements, and
  foundations for effective deployment of
  technologies
• Goal Establish an institutional foundation for
  deployment of safety, mobility, and environmental
  applications of vehicle and infrastructure
  connectivity
• Objective Identify and research solutions to
  address institutional foundations governance,
  privacy issues, potential regulations, and
  policies, both nationally and internationally, to
  implement transportation technologies
• Objective Incorporate research into all goals to
  address social equity to ensure benefit to all
  from transportation technology solutions

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ITS Areas To Watch

• IntelliDrive(SM)
• Standards Strategic Plan
• EU Coordination
• VMT Fee Policy Debate
• Environment
• Reauthorization
• Policy directions of the new administration
• Market trends

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IntelliDrivesm - Principles

• IntelliDrivesm communication networks will
  support the development of
• Active safety applications so vehicles cant
  crash,
• Information-rich infrastructure for mobility,
  efficiency, facilities management, and road
  weather applications
• Applications to enhance livable communities and
  environmental stewardship
• DSRC is the key technology for active safety
• Multiple communication technologies may be
  applicable for addressing the mobility
  applications

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IntelliDrivesm - Principles

• Research program addresses vehicle-to-vehicle and
  vehicle-to-infrastructure components
• Core standards for active safety applications
  will be internationally harmonized
• Transit and commercial vehicle requirements will
  be addressed throughout
• Retrofit strategies will be studied for active
  safety applications
• Aftermarket strategies will be studied for
  mobility applications
• Research will address technical and policy
  questions to define a viable path to deployment

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Major Near Term IntelliDrivesm Activities (1 of 2)

• Systems Engineering
• Update concept of operations, requirements, and
  architecture
• Effort to begin this summer
• Coordination with related international
  activities explicitly identified
• US mechanism for establishing specific areas for
  international collaborative research
• Testbed facilities
• Continuing operation of Michigan testbed for
  industry use
• Post proof of concept testing research (near
  term)
• Scalability, security, positioning, DSRC
  performance

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Major Near Term IntelliDrivesm Activities (2 of 2)

• Cooperative safety system roadmaps
• Vehicle-to-vehicle ? draft developed and being
  vetted with industry
• Vehicle-to-infrastructure ? draft available this
  summer
• Policy
• Consensus on Principles
• Stakeholder engagement
• Policy research roadmap
• Government capabilities white paper
• Infrastructure deployment analysis white paper

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ITS Standards Strategic Plan

• TRB recommended development of a new vision for
  the ITS Standards Program
• Connectivity is the theme
• Considering new standards needed to support
  connectivity for applications in
• Safety
• Mobility
• Environmental
• International standards coordination
• Mainstream other standards

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EU Coordination

• Implementing Arrangement with DG INFSO
• Coordinating research road maps for cooperative
  systems
• US providing input into EU research Call
• Pursuing agreement with DG TREN
• Early discussion with Japan METI
• Topics include
• Architecture
• Standards
• Field operational tests
• Research coordination
• Sharing results

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Future Directions

• Reauthorization themes
• ITS America, AASHTO, others
• ARRA implementation
• Policy direction of new administration
• Possible opportunities
• VMT tax technologies
• Performance management
• Environment
• Market trends
• Automotive
• Mobile devices

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A Changing Paradigm for ITS Connectivity

• ITS is, once again, enabling a paradigm shift,
  driven by
• Complexity of problems
• Innovative wireless technologies
• Our challenge
• Embrace new approaches
• Leverage innovation and the market
• Without
• Stopping progress, as we prepare for
• Emerging opportunities