re-posted from:  July 24, 2015, UDOT’s Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office, ITS NEWS & UPDATES

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office has released a recording of the Fundamental Issues for Road Transport Automation webinar held on July 15, 2015.

This 90-minute webinar explored the issues to be addressed to advance the deployment of automated road transport systems. It also identified the great diversity in road transport automation systems based on:

• System goals
• Roles for the driver and the automation system
• Levels of complexity in the environments where the vehicles must operate.

In addition, this webinar reviewed the state of the art and state of the market in road transport automation systems, seeking to separate reality from hype and identify the ways in which infrastructure could provide support for automation functionality. This review focused on the maturity of key enabling technologies for road transport automation, while identifying the technological challenges in a variety of fields.

The webinar concluded with a discussion of the public and private sectors’ roles in developing and operating vehicle automation systems, considering private vehicles on public infrastructure and the potential for new business models to support the infrastructure development and operation.

To access the recording of the webinar, please visit Fundamental Issues for Road Transport Automation.

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