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Mobility
Automated, Connected, Electric and Shared vehicle (ACES) technology has the potential to revolutionize the transportation sector, and render obsolete many of the externalities associated with the current transportation system. While GTiMA monitors and advocates for standards related to all aspects of ACES, we spend a great deal amount of time on the connected and automated side of vehicles (CAV). Guided by ultra-precise LiDAR sensors and equipped with comprehensive basemaps, CAVs could potentially save tens of thousands of lives currently lost to traffic fatalities every year. As an integral piece of smart cities, CAVs offering inexpensive rideshares promise substantial improvements to the economic and social mobility of disadvantaged and disabled people, opening paths to progress for millions worldwide. With vehicles in constant communication with one another, traffic jams could be nearly eliminated altogether. Badly-needed land in urban centers, currently occupied by millions of parking lots and decks, would be freed for new housing and infrastructure development. And, crucially, CAVs could potentially make real-time adjustments on the road to maximize fuel efficiency, which, according to studies, could cut total US emissions by 20 percent.
GTiMA represents the geospatial transportation mapping community by monitoring and participating in the evolution and adoption of ACES standards in the following fora:
UNITED STATES
- More than 30 State Departments of Transportation
- The US Senate Committee on Commerce, Science & Transportation
- The Congressional Transportation & Infrastructure Committee
- The University of Wisconsin-Madison’s AV Proving Ground
- Autonomous Vehicle Safety World Congress
- US Department of Transportation Automated Vehicle Proving Grounds
- AAMVA Autonomous Vehicle Best Practices Working Group
INTERNATIONAL
- Autonomous Vehicle Asia Summit
- Autonomous Vehicle Technology World Expo
- Autonomous Machines World
- ISO/TC 204 on Intelligent Transport Systems
TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH BOARD
- TRB’s Standing Committee on Pavement Management Systems
- TRB’s Standing Committee on Pavement Condition Evaluation
- TRB’s Standing Committee on Emerging Technology Law
- TRB’s Standing Committee on Safety Data, Analysis and Evaluation
- TRB’s Standing Committee on Pedestrians
- TRB’s Standing Committee on Bicycle Transportation
- TRB’s Standing Committee on Testing and Evaluation of Transportation Structures
- TRB’s Technical Activities Council
- TRB’s Standing Committee on International Cooperation
- TRB’s Standing Committee on Transportation Issues in Major Cities
- TRB’s Standing Committee on Intelligent Transportation Systems
- TRB’s Standing Committee on Transportation Law