The world transport industry is at a crossroads, with artificial intelligence, electrification, connectivity and digitalization all willing to disrupt the way in which the infrastructure is designed, constructed and managed. Despite the current geopolitical state of the United States, industry professionals around the world highlight the need for collaboration and global standards.
“I have never seen such a quick change rate,” said Laura Chace, chairman and CEO of her America, talking at the World Congress in the Atlanta World Cup on August 24-28. Even a year ago, AI capabilities to help infrastructure inspections and other transport requests have accelerated.
The Atlanta Regional Commission (ARC) is using and to “cut the numbers” on population growth, modeling and future transport planning, added Anna Roach, executive director and CEO, emphasizing that the region plans to invest $ 168 billion until 2050.
But “we cannot build as before,” said Jannine Miller, executive director of the State Road Authority and Tollway, the Transit Link authority and the Georgia Regional Transport Authority. “We can’t just add lanes.” He said that right -wing costs are larger than ever. “We need to make a smarter use of the existing infrastructure.” For example, Ga 400 toll roads will have managed congestion prices, said Miller.
With the Atlanta region, which had a “renaissance of manufacturing”, which provides for 75,000 new jobs due to the electric vehicle industry, the state legislature added $ 1.2 billion last year for transport funding, said Russell McMurry, Georgia’s Secretary of Transportation. “Freight tondage will double on the roads by 2050”, so the agency is exploring ways to add broadband to interstate routes and major traffic runners for evolving technology. “We need to be accused of trying to” use technology to save lives, he added.
He said that the port of Savannah has 20 more traffic signs with smart vehicles connectivity to prioritize loaded trucks and alert drivers if the freight rail traffic is currently found in a step in order to deviate.
Anticipating the FIFA World Cup next year, ARC has a subsidy of $ 9 million to plan a mobility application for the elderly and disabled, while an autonomous shuttle of the 22 -kilometer -of -kilometer tape line that Atlanta Beltline will bring passengers to places up to two kilometers in the north or south.
In the European Union, there is a “deep change towards smart mobility” and a 2050 zero carbon economy goal, said Kristian Hedberg, head of the EU delegation in the United States, “digitalization is essential for the agenda,” he said. The EU has adopted an action plan to foster automated and advanced driving.
But sharing data standards and good practices is key, as is resilience and inclusion, Joost Vantomme, CEO of Ertico-it Europe, said. Ace Yamamoto, President of ITA Japan and Secretary General of his Asia-Pacific, added that these agencies seek to create “safe common processes” for data exchange. “His community needs a structured approach,” he said.
Vantomme, speaking of a later panel, emphasized the need to align research efforts not only on all continents, but also among industries, for example autonomous vehicles and AI. “It would be nice if they met,” he said. He said that the European Commission plans to establish an alliance for automobile manufacturers for sharing technologies on autonomous vehicles and to provide support for EV battery manufacturers. The EU also follows a legal framework for the AI that protects security and human rights and would establish the required requirements for “high -risk” AI systems, such as those used in vehicles and road traffic.
Electric roads
Other potential alliances are between roads and energy/utility providers, several panelists said. For example, state transport rights could be suitable for placing energy infrastructure such as transmission lines, said Joe Simon, head of the project with NREL. He said that the agency is completing a geoschial evaluation and regulating rows potential to meet energy needs such as geothermal, battery energy storage and transmission.
But at present, more than 40 state transport departments restrict or prohibit the placement of public services in the interstate system, stands out Randy Sutterfield, executive director of the Nextgen Highways Initiative. And historically, “utilities and points do not collaborate proactively,” he said. But several surveys show that the public would prefer to build a new infrastructure within the existing infrastructure, so the goal is to “identify interest groups interested in changing policies.”
At Michigan, the goal is to build infrastructures to support 2 million electric vehicles by 2030, said Michele Mueller, Michele Mueller, Michigan, transport vehicle, freelance and electrified vehicles. MDOT pursues a public-private collaboration to build a mobility loading center on DTNA Redford with Daimler Truck North America and DTE Energy in a $ 13 million effort. The dowry is also using a billion dollars in U.S. Energy Department funding to build a “Machh2” nucleus with a hydrogen supply chain for heavy trucks in six states.
With regard to his wireless inductive load test, the first country, the results are “exceeding our expectations,” he added. Companies like Ford and UPS have used the road load system and found it effective regardless of the climate and for both static wire load and dynamics.
Ambitious
In Jacksonville, FLA., The first public traffic runner of connected vehicles and permanent self -employed vehicles launched in June. The Bay Street Innovation runner rests a high 10 mile guide that was originally destined for Monorail, said Nathaniel Ford, director general of Jacksonville’s transport authority. In this first phase, the AVS operates at three kilometers of mixed traffic. Phase 2 aims to turn 2.5 miles of track into the existing superstructure and eight stations on a high road for autonomous and connected vehicles and a battery bus. The current two -way tracks are approximately 2.5 miles.
“This is the most transformative time for transportation to our lives,” said Ford.
Encounter the general theme of the event’s interconnections, Greg Crandell, CEO of Holon US, said that smart cities require multiple modes of transport to be automated and “a AV community”. Holon plans to deploy an autonomous shuttle in the corridor of innovation.
With technologies such as AI, computer vision, automatic learning and connectivity that matures simultaneously, “ this is a transformation once in the century ” of transport and cities, said John Absmeier, Cto de Toyota, a subsidiary that seeks to transform the car maker into a “ mobility company ”.
The aim of the fabric is to achieve a vision of zero fatalities on roads around the world, he said. “Today’s mobility is like” World Wide Web “in 1999, it means everything,” he said. But to achieve the definitive view of a safe and secure system, “investment in infrastructure” and responsibility lies “not with an industry or a country”.
The concept of mobility as a service can be solidified in some cities in Europe that have adopted a single application system provided by Siemens to plan, reserve and use various modes of transport, said Greg Valyer, head of Siemens ‘Business Development’ Maas. For example, the application serves 15 German districts that cover 58 traffic lines, 390 stations and 1,000 bus stops, creating a “mobility association” that includes bicycle, taxi and Vanpool options, especially for the first mile/mile lagoons, he said.
In the United States, the city of Dublin, Ohio, it also serves as a test for intelligent infrastructure, said Jean-Rere Willis, director of transport and mobility. “The goal is to be the most connected community in the United States,” he said.
With a 100 gigabytes fiber network and a 33 smart mobility runner, which includes 432 fiber threads, 63 road units and 40 connected intersections, the city is testing autonomous and autonomous trucks. It also has a heat map that is almost in relation to accidents, the control of the adaptive signal that prioritizes pedestrians and, in winter, snow neutral and other technologies.
A world first
Dublin is not the only North -American region to pioneer in the future of transport with world members. Kapsch Traffercom North America and North Carolina’s Tollway Authority announced during a conference that they will deploy the first V2X toll system at the world’s production level on the Triangle Express road.
This joint initiative will transfer the connected toll -based toll and the pilot phases in a living operating environment near Raleigh.
The project integrates two different technologies: road toll and CV data – in a single transaction, creating a model for future funding models.
Instead of the gates associated with the open road toll, this technology has a small road box that can cover five lanes, according to JB Kendrick, president and CEO of Capsule -North America Traffic. “Over time, data can be exchanged between cars, signs of smart messages, emergency services authorizations,” he said.
The project will be developed in phases, starting with the installation of road units and the tests with vehicles aboard vehicles. The subsequent stages will focus on the integration of vehicle toll data on everything with the NCTA host and office systems, with the ultimate goal of invoicing customers based on transactions generated directly by their vehicle.
Finally, NCTA could use the data to predict when it has to repair the roads, reduce bridges or add new infrastructure, according to Kendrik.
