USA
Principles AASHTO on connected and autonomous vehicles
Traffic Technology Today
24.01.2022
The special report of the annual meeting of the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Employees AASHTO "Connecting to CAV" focuses on the recently published principles of the AASHTO policy on connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV). A set of 10 principles is designed to promote the development of CAV technology, which should improve road safety by reducing the number of accidents. The Principles are conceived as a "living document" that is reviewed and updated annually to reflect changes in technology and policy. The principles of AASHTO's CAV policy can be found at: cav.transportation.org .
United Kingdom
In the UK, tests of surveillance cameras mounted in lighting lamps have been completed.
Traffic Technology Today
19.01.2022
A test of the concept of a new generation of intelligent street lighting has been completed on the M40 motorway in England at junction 15 of the Longbridge roundabout near the city of Birmingham. The result was the successful integration of wireless surveillance cameras into street lights.
The Illuminate system was tested for five months last year and successfully confirmed the concept. Illuminate allowed data to be transferred to office equipment and tablet computers, paving the way for complex networks created on the principle of "car to everything" (V2X) of the future for connected and autonomous vehicles (CAV).
The introduction of the Illuminate system was carried out as part of the modernization program of the highway lighting system and allowed to combine the replacement of lighting fixtures and the installation of surveillance cameras in one technical operation, halving the need to stop traffic for work.
The V-Max lighting fixtures were supplied by Holophane, while MWay installed the technology inside the fixtures and worked on the communication software.
At the meeting of the ITS forum, it was noted why logistics companies need to exchange data.
Traffic Technology Today
19.01.2022
At the ITS (UK) Freight Forum, Shaful Chowdhury, Chief Engineer of Connected Places Catapult (CPC), spoke about a new project to maximize the use of data on cargo transportation and logistics in order to best solve the problems facing the industry.
CPC is working with the UK Department of Transport (DfT) on an end-to-end logistics data research project that will define an approach to accessing traditionally disparate datasets to gain practical knowledge. It aims to help the industry eliminate bottlenecks in supply chains, and the DfT to direct investments and provide support for policy decisions, as well as to help better understand cargo flows in the transport system, identify inefficiencies and bottlenecks.
According to Chowdhury's speech, a large amount of data is concentrated in the private sector. Once you have access to them, you can find solutions to common problems, such as, for example, a shortage of drivers, customs checks, etc. The long-term benefits for the industry are huge. In turn, the private sector will benefit from the investment decisions that the DfT makes, affecting the bottlenecks that affect it from day to day.
CPC is currently conducting a series of case studies demonstrating the key factors for successful data exchange and the results that will help make more effective information exchange a reality. They will be used in subsequent work packages, which will result in mapping the product path from start to finish and related use cases for cargo transportation and logistics data.
Noise level cameras are the next step in ITS industry
Traffic Technology Today
18.01.2022
In October 2021, Taiwan announced plans to spend $4 million on a national network of noise control cameras. Kensington has only 150,000 residents, but its city council spent 75,000 pounds on a trial camera that collected about 5,000 pounds a month over a three-month period. Other cities are also testing noise level cameras. The city of Elkhart, Indiana (USA), received fines for noise in the amount of more than $ 1.6 million from a population of only 52,000 people. If this trend continues to develop in the rest of the world, the volume of the car noise abatement market will easily exceed $ 1 billion — a worthy prize for any global company working in the field of ITS.
In a broader sense, traffic noise is perceived as an intrusion into a home, which encourages the population to complain en masse. In 2020 alone, the City of New York received 99,000 complaints about vehicle-related noise, after which the state of New York increased fines for exceeding the noise level from vehicles from $100 to $1,000. The Bureau of Transportation Statistics estimates there are 800,000 homes in the United States where background noise levels never fall below 75 decibels —or the sound of a vacuum cleaner working around the clock and seven days a week.
It is noteworthy that all manufacturers of noise control cameras are newcomers to the ITS industry. Having no large enterprises to worry about, they took a risk and created a new niche. Their early success should encourage more reputable ITS suppliers to join them.
General Noise Ltd has patented an algorithmic basis for a traffic camera based on radar/LIDAR technologies, which can detect speed and noise level violations by a single data signal. Thus, a stationary or mobile speed control unit will soon be able to issue fines for and exceeding the noise level, with virtually no increase in costs.
In Taipei, there is one moped for every 2.7 people, and in Kensington it may seem that there are more Ferrari cars than residents. When two completely different transport cultures successfully lead and monetize the fight against noise levels, this certainly gives the key to understanding what large ITS companies should create and sell in the future.
The author of the article is Jason Dunne, co–founder of General Noise Ltd.
https://www.traffictechnologytoday.com/opinion/opinion-noise-cameras-the-next-big-thing-in-its.html
Urban AirPort
receives funding to create the infrastructure of urban air ports
Intelligent Transport
21.01.2022
On January 19, 2022, Urban-Air Port Ltd (UAP) announced the attraction of investments from Supernal — formerly Hyundai Motor Group's urban air mobility division — to implement the companies' shared vision of integrating advanced air mobility (AAM) into existing transit networks and creating seamless passenger transportation.
The funding will help support UAP's plans to establish 200 vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) ports worldwide over the next five years, and will also help develop new models of UAP ports, including the CityBox drone delivery center.
These eVTOL ports will provide the necessary infrastructure to help ensure the mass adoption of electric aircraft, such as cargo UAVs and air taxis, as public acceptance grows and will change the way goods and people are transported in urban areas.
In addition, in April 2022, the world's first fully operational eVTOL center, Air-One, will open to visitors in Coventry city center. The demonstration will show how AAM can help unlock the potential of sustainable mobility and how it can help reduce congestion, reduce air pollution and reduce the carbon footprint of transport.
It is predicted that the urban air mobility market will grow by 9% per year, reaching $12.7 billion by 2027 and up to $1 trillion in the next 20 years. However, the lack of ground infrastructure remains one of the biggest obstacles to the growth of the AAM industry. For example, only three percent of industry investments in 2021 (US$150 million) were directed to the development of physical ground infrastructure, despite the fact that US$ 5 billion was allocated for the development of eVTOL vehicles during the same period.
Ricky Sandhu, founder and executive chairman of Urban-Air Port, said: "Cars need roads. Trains need rails. Planes need airports. eVTOL requires Urban-Air ports. Despite the unprecedented potential of eVTOL aircraft to revolutionize mobility, the importance of the ground infrastructure that allows them to do so is too often overlooked. Thanks to Supernal's investments, experience and connections with Hyundai Motor Group, we can accelerate the introduction of a sustainable, intermodal and scalable ground infrastructure that will open up the future of advanced air mobility worldwide. "
https://www.intelligenttransport.com/transport-news/132293/urban-air-port-investment-air-mobility/