Future Challenges in Intelligent Transportation Systems and their Applications

Barry Gander

Co-Founder, i-CANADA; EVP CATA

I CANADA DIVA Nov 13 14

Transportation and the Island of Time

Intelligent Transportation brings Humankind’s existence to the attention of the universe.

Time Is Running Out: Need Smart Communities

Smart City 1.0

Focus: Automating the Functions

From Smart Cities to Intelligent Communities: Adding “Strategic Community Alignment™”

Smart/Intelligent Community 2.0

Focus: Coordinated/Connected Strategy

Traffic

Healthcare

Education

Government services Ecology

Community Information

SocialServices

Retail

Traffic

Healthcare

Education

Government services

Ecology

Community Information

Socialservices

Common elements of city visions

What is a Smart City?Common city challenges

Socio-economic

• Growing population

• Aging population

• Economic prosperity

• Health and inequality

• Skills and market access

• Job creation and retention

• Infrastructure stress

Political

• Public sector budget

• Changing service needs

Environmental

• Climate change

• Resource scarcity

• Energy resilience

“The overwhelming core focus of the visions is an

improvement of local quality of life.

Following on from this, and linked to it, are

improvements in economic opportunity,

community engagement and integration; and a

reduction in environmental footprint”

Detailed analysis of the Future Cities Demonstrator Feasibility Studies, produced for the Technology Strategy Board by Arup Limited, 25 April 2013

Urbanization: Transportation Impact

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The Result For Transportation• Can’t build our way out of this – need Smart City solutions

• Have to prepare for massive increase in data flows (and extract meaning better)• Rise of Open Data (Obama mandated)

• Infrastructure deficit means creative funding• Transportation can borrow from the future

• New data-centric Transportation/Smart Champion needed• Chief Mobile Data Officer: responsible for sharing city (mobile) data with the public,

facilitating the sharing of information between City departments, and analyzing how data sets can be used to improve city decision making

• Keep up with the newest solutions!

It’s Mostly About “Intelligent End Points”

• Today vehicles are the mobile networking points, tying in people and things in a moving fabric of communications

• People now choose their cars mostly on the vehicles ability to support their communications devices

• The single most valuable part of a car, is the information harness around the engine

• 80% of the innovation that goes into an automobile, goes into the communications systems

Reason to Focus on Newest Solutions

Why “Keeping Up With Solutions” Is So Key

• Limitations of Spectrum: Radio wave circulator, U of Texas• Can double the useful wireless spectrum with full-duplex

• Cost of Infrastructure• AT&T doing 40,000 in next 2 years alone

• Reduced Travel: High bandwidth for work & healthcare

• Operational Revolutions: Do we need carriers?

Organizational Transformation for Transportation

• Collaboration across silos• And measure it

• Freedom for creativity• For procurement and to

overcome fear-of-failing

• Incorporation of Innovation• Senior leaders champion

and reward innovation

Application Impacts

• Car Design: smaller central console, better drive dynamics

• Driving Experience: distance optimization, health sensors

• Infrastructure: E-Vehicles talk to E-grids, route optimization

Ultimate Infrastructure: Self-Drive