The Big Picture looking to the future SYSTEMS

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The Big Picture looking to the futureSYSTEMS

• Mike McDonald
• Transportation Research Group
• University of Southampton

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Requirements

• What do we want from urban transport systems?
• Efficient Delivery
• Energy
• Environment
• Economy
• Safety
• Choice

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Where are we now?

• Efficiency
• Substantial urban/suburban congestion despite
  benefits of UTMC, etc.
• Lack of comprehensive, coherent knowledge
• Current conditions
• Future conditions
• Lack of systems to provide choice
• Before/during travel
• Substantial issues of ownership / objectives
• Infrastructure owners - Information suppliers
• Transport operators - Others

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Knowledge

• What might the future hold Knowledge?
• Data will increasingly come from vehicles,
  travellers and goods
• Voluntary tracking/knowledge
• of individuals
• Increasing knowledge of
• objectives
• Improved models / algorithms for prediction

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Efficiency

• What might the future hold Efficiency?
• Vehicle/infrastructure communication/integration
• Enhanced control/enforcement systems and better
  incident management
• Less predict and provide
• Management against new specific priorities
• Individual vehicles
• Vehicle characteristics
• More flexible use of roadspace

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Choice

• What will the future hold Choice?
• Clear choice delivered whenever and wherever
  needed
• Implications of choices evident (e.g. cost / risk
  / environment)
• Large private sector role within transport
• One part of more comprehensive
• information systems

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Ownership

• What might the future hold Ownership?
• Greater transfer of new systems and services to
  the private sector
• Radical new systems and services

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Key Issues

• What might the future hold Key Issues
• Change will be more profound than many currently
  envisage
• Danger that we plan to solve todays problems
  tomorrow, not tomorrow's problems
• Our processes and procedures are not set up to
  solve problems in a radical or revolutionary way
• Technology is not in itself a solution, but
  provides new opportunities if we can build the
  appropriate business models for its use and
  development