Commercial Vehicles

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Commercial Vehicles Intelligent
Transportation Systems

• a.k.a.
• CVII, VII,
  CVISN, E-Screening, Smart Roadside
• Other Scary
  Words!
• The Convergence of Real Time Data, Information
  and Operations - VII
• Rick McDonough, NYSDOT
• Office of Safety Security Services

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Transportation Agencies have Common Emphasis Areas

• Mobility System Management
• ?Congestion mitigation to maintain mobility and
  economic vitality
• ?Improve efficiencies and effectiveness of
  systems and operations
• Safety
• ?Crash avoidance and reduction of accidents,
  injuries and deaths
• Security
• ?Protect key assets and support security
  operations and incident response

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Driving Forces Safety
Fatalities
Fatality Rate

1990
2000
1980
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Driving Forces Mobility
46hrs/yr
28
2
1990
2000
1980
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Priority Emphasis Freight Trucks are heremore
are coming
Trucks Per Year 2005 and 2035 (Global Insight
for AASHTO)
Major Truck-Freight Bottlenecks 2004 (CS for
FHWA)
National Highway System (FHWA)
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Problem Statement

• With current and projected growth in vehicle
  trips
• Need to improve safety, mobility, security and
  economic vitality across the entire
  transportation network
• Need to leverage (significant) existing
  investments
• Need smarter integration of elements - vehicles,
  driver, cargo, infrastructure, data, and roadside
  activities
• Need to better manage transportation system
  including cross-agency coordination
• Need Commercial and Transit Vehicles prioritized
  and integrated in ITS initiatives

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Potential Solution Next Generation of ITS
Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII)!

• Uses Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC)
  same as E-Z Pass! (915MHz transponder based
  toll collection system using roadside readers)
• 5.9GHz technology high speed, high capacity,
  secure data transmission
• Can be integrated into control systems of vehicle
• Allows high speed, high capacity, secure data
  communication between vehicles and to/from
  roadside to vehicles

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Current Concept of VII
OBE On Board Equipment RSU Road Side Unit
DSRC _at_ 5.9 GHZ
OBE
RSU
Network Management Center
OEMs, Private Companies, Subscription Services
Private Sector Content Providers
Public Sector
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VII Can Enable a Wide Range of Applications

• Safety Examples
• Lane/Road Departure
• Road Condition Warning
• Emergency Electronic Brake Lights
• In-vehicle signing
• Intersection collision avoidance
• Parking availability

• Mobility Examples
• Probe Data
• Travel Time
• Electronic Payment
• Incident Data

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National VII Initiative Lacks CVO Input
VII National Coalition
VII National Executive Leadership Team (ELT) VII
National Working Group
USDOT (FHWA JPO)
AASHTO (MI, MN, CA, FL, WA, etc.)
VII-C and other OEMs (Ford, DCX, Nissan, Honda,
BMW, VW, GM, Toyota, etc.)
Commercial Transit Vehicles need to be added!
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VII and 5.9 GHz DSRC in Action
A car speeding toward a red light receives a
safety alert. Others are warned that it is
suddenly braking.
NO PLANS to make this work with Trucks or
Busses A disabled car and tow truck transmit
hazard warnings to approaching passenger vehicles
(only!).
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Driving Forces Safety
Fatalities
We have the opportunity to change the trend!
Fatality Rate
V I I D e p l o y m e n t
1990
2000
1980
13
Driving Forces Mobility
ITS D e p l o y m e n t
46hrs/yr
28
1990
2000
1980
2
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2008 ITS World Congress

• Javitts Center, Manhattan
• November 16-20, 2008
• Three VII Corridors
• - Manhattan Local Streets (NYCDOT)
• - Long Island Expressway (NYSDOT)
• - Spring Valley Corridor (Suffern to
  Tappan Zee
  Bridge) (NYSTA in partnership w/NYSDOT, NYSBA
  MTA)

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New Concept of VII W/CVII!
OBE On Board Equipment RSU Road Side Unit
DSRC _at_ 5.9 GHZ
OBE
RSU
Network Management Center
OEMs, Private Companies, Subscription Services
Public Sector
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VII Coverage Spring Valley Corridor

• Potential 14 sites covering 13 miles
• Coverage between each interchange link
• Average density .9 miles
• Greatest distance between sites 1.7 miles
• Least distance between sites .6 miles

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Commercial Vehicle Infrastructure Integration
(CVII)

• Objective(s) Utilizing the most advanced
  communications technologies, exchange real-time
  information between the roadside and commercial
  vehicles to improve safety and mobility
• Field-demonstrate CVII-based capabilities through
  a permanently deployed 13-mile test site on the
  NYS Thruway Authority Corridor during 2008 World
  Congress
• Initiate commercial vehicle communication
• development to be included in the national
• VII effort
• Approved I-95 Funding 750,000

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I-95 Corridor Coalition Year 15 Priority Project
Recommendation

• Commercial Vehicle Infrastructure Integration
  (CVII)
• Utilizing DSRC communications technologies to
  exchange real-time information between the
  roadside and commercial vehicles to improve
  safety, security and mobility
• Initiate and advance CV Manufacturers VII vehicle
  based development to catch up with VIIC
• Develop and integrate software to allow CV
  vehicles to communicate with roadside system (and
  to passenger vehicles!)

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Importance of the Effort

• Critical to the national transportation goals of
  safety, security mobility that CV be in VII
  Initiative box
• The investment in, and benefits from, VII ITS
  can only be maximized if the most critical
  vehicles types (CV, Transit) in terms of facility
  design, safety, security risk, infrastructure
  maintenance economic benefits are included

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NYSTA, NYSDOT I-95 CVII Program

• Modifying existing infrastructure and
  communications for 13 mile VII corridor with 4
  additional sites (NYSDOT, NYSTA, NYSBA)
• Develop CV vehicle system and software to build
  upon existing VII efforts, I-95 NC/NCHP/Volvo
  Truck Project and FMCSAs Wireless Vehicle Safety
  Inspection Project
• Test Wireless CV Driver I.D and Verification
  (TWIC, Biometrics)
• Test Wireless Vehicle Safety Inspection
  Information (brake condition, tire pressure,
  light status, etc.)
• Goal Complete work by October 2008

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iCone Real Time GPS and Speed Monitoring
Traffic Barrelfrom Calmar Telematics
A simple idea made possible through modern
technology - Communicates/Delineates Work
Zone or Incident locations in Real Time -
Provides Traffic Monitoring Information
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5.9 GHz DSRC ROADSIDE TO VEHICLE APPLICATION
WORK ZONE WARNING
WORK
In-Vehicle Display and Annunciation
ZONE
AHEAD
RSU on Control Channel
Flashing Arrow
Grass Divider
Work Zone
Micro Zone
Work Zone Warning Com. Zone
Real Time Location Speed Monitoring
iCone-
up to 1100 ft range
Standard Traffic Cone
Not to Scale