Vehicle Infrastructure Integration Briefing to OFCM CEISC James Pol USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office May 17, 2005

2 Presentation Outline What is VII? Why Deploy VII? Who is Involved? What’s possible? What are the Challenges?

3 What Is VII? Creating an “Enabling Communication Infrastructure” to support vehicle-to-vehicle And Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Communications Supporting Safety AND Mobility Applications

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

5 Road Side Unit Message Switch Subscriber Applications 5.9 DSRC End User On Board Unit Vehicle Data Driver HMI

6 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

7 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

8 Driving Forces: Safety We have the opportunity to change the trend! Fatality Rate Fatalities 42, V I I D e p l o y m e n t

9 Improving Reliability Through System Management and Operations Bottlenecks 40% Work Zones 10% Bad Weather 15% Traffic Incidents 25% Poor Signal Timing 5% Special Events 5% System-wide Real-time Information is the Key!

10 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.

11 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

12 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

13 VII Coalition –USDOT FHWA NHTSA –AASHTO 10 State DOTs –Vehicle Manufacturers BMW Daimler Chrysler Ford GM Nissan Toyota VW FHWA NHTSA

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

15 We have work yet to do Application Development Privacy Data ownership Liability Deployment approach Business approach