Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Briefing to OFCM CEISC

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Vehicle Infrastructure IntegrationBriefing to
OFCM CEISC

• James Pol
• USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint
  Program Office
• May 17, 2005

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Presentation Outline

• What is VII?
• Why Deploy VII?
• Who is Involved?
• Whats possible?
• What are the Challenges?

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What Is VII?

• Creating an Enabling Communication
  Infrastructure to support vehicle-to-vehicle And
  Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications

Supporting Safety AND Mobility Applications
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Key Communications Technology

• FCC has allocated 75MHz for
• Safety Applications (1st priority)
• Mobility Applications
• Private Applications
• DSRC/WAVE 802.11p Standards Complete
• Based on variation of WiFi -- 802.11a
• Low Latency/fast connecting/priority attributes
• FCC has ruled on licensing Dec. 03
• Testing new devices in 2005

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End User
Subscriber Applications
Message Switch
5.9 DSRC
Road Side Unit
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Objective of the VII Initiative

• To determine if the investment necessary to equip
  new vehicles and the roadway infrastructure with
  communications are warranted and can be
  synchronized.

• A Coordinated Investment
• Auto Companies Install DSRC GPS in all New
  Vehicles
• Public Sector Installs Communications on Roadway
  Infrastructure Nationwide

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How We Got Here

• The confluence of three activities have presented
  an opportunity
• Growing emphasis on crash avoidance (Safety) and
  system management and operations (mobility)
• Advancements under the ITS vehicle safety program
  (Intelligent Vehicle Initiative)
• Evolution of communications technology

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Driving Forces Safety
We have the opportunity to change the trend!
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Improving Reliability Through System Management
and Operations
Poor Signal
Special
Timing
Events
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Bad Weather
Bottlenecks
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40
Work Zones
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System-wide Real-time Information is the Key!
Traffic
Incidents
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Weather Response (Snow, Ice, Fog)

• 17 of all highway fatalities occur during
  adverse weather
• Existing national weather information is
  inadequate for highway operations
• Efforts to enhance this information locally are
  expensive and of limited value
• Sensors on vehicles could provide continuous
  data on air and road surface temperature,
  visibility, precipitation, etc.

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VII Impact on Overcoming Surface Transportation
Weather Gaps

• Three fundamental deficiencies today
• Lack of transportation system relevant weather
  observations
• Lack of understanding on how to apply weather
  information in decision making
• Lack of capabilities for predicting and/or
  assessing surface level weather phenomena
• VII opens the opportunity for empirical data
  gathering not possible otherwise

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VII Impact on Weather-related Decision Making

• VII enables enhanced response and planning
  through improvements to weather observations,
  models, and predictions
• Microscale events for immediate response(e.g.,
  black ice, fog banks) conveyed in seconds to
  minutes
• Mesoscale events for tactical response (e.g.,
  thunderstorms, flash floods) forecast in minutes
  to hours
• Synoptic scale events for strategic response
  (e.g. blizzards, floods, heat) forecast in hours
  to days

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VII Coalition

• USDOT
• FHWA
• NHTSA
• AASHTO
• 10 State DOTs
• Vehicle Manufacturers
• BMW
• Daimler Chrysler
• Ford
• GM
• Nissan
• Toyota
• VW

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Preliminary Conclusions

• VII Working Group has concluded that VII is
  technically feasible
• Priority Applications - benefits
• Requirements Defined
• Architecture Complete
• Multiple Communication Options

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We have work yet to do

• Application Development
• Privacy
• Data ownership
• Liability
• Deployment approach
• Business approach