Great East Japan Earthquake in 2011. At the same
this and at creating bigger systems. However we
time, mobility in mega cities/regions is a major
still need to do more to integrate people, modes,
issue to be addressed in emerging economies,
and institutions, as well as projects, programs,
especially in Asia, as I have described briefly.
products and devices.
Open has been adopted as the key word for
Interoperability
expanding the potential of ITS: open platforms
Another user-driven initiative. We would
for basic concerns, and open connectivity,
never accept a credit card that worked in the
opportunities and collaboration for the three new
Netherlands but not Austria and we are now
domains.
requiring our transport services to operate without
as we have benefitted from and built on Orlando 2011. I’m going to finish with my assessment of what might be the hottest 10 topics to watch for next year: Connected vehicles Connected vehicles offer a major opportunity to change transport. There are separate initiatives world-wide and serious discussions about the development of global standards and specifications. We also await results from the large Michigan trial. But there’s still many unresolved issues about the ultimate safety and security (in the sense of resilience against attack)
interruption when we cross national or even international borders. For the freight industry these solutions are long overdue. Smart cities This is the tough one – managing cities with strategies and policies that link together transport, energy, water and waste, health, land planning Social media I’ve mentioned that we are lagging in some aspects. The use of social intelligent incentives to reward good behaviour rather than penalising bad is an attractive solution and a way to catch up
of connected systems as well as the question of
Modernising our evaluation of benefits
liability. And then there’s the ultimate connected
We need more data on the evaluation of projects
vehicle – Automation which is now openly
whether very successful or less so. And we need
discussed as a medium-term solution to human
to develop ways to value ‘soft’ benefits such as
failings.
time saved, reduced disruption to a network,
Integration Single-solution products are declining as users prefer their services to talk to each other and exchange information. We are getting better at
reduced environmental impact. In some areas lack of benefits data is slowing the development of business cases and that slows deployment. Electromobility Everybody thinks fully- or partially-electric vehicles are a good idea but very few people make a clear case why. There is much to do here understanding the links between... ¤¤ vehicle characteristics ¤¤ driver behaviour ¤¤ energy supply grids ¤¤ the overall emissions patterns and costs
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Tokyo will build on Vienna 2012 in the same way