1. Soft vehicles, Soft roads, Soft Transport
18/04/2018
Three areas running in parallel which require a coherent perspective
Emeritus Professor Marcus Wigan
John Gaffney
Scott Benjamin
Soft vehicles, Soft roads, Soft Transport

2. OUTLINE Decades of Momentum of investment in
18/04/2018
OUTLINE
Decades of Momentum of investment in
People safety
transport movement and
road infrastructure
We have a revolution in data creation and capture
This will cause creative disruption (Schumpeter REF): this has started
We present a possible unified view of these opportunities
DISCUSS PROCESS. 
We thought it was timely to open this discussion with you.  To present some highly relevant developments we are seeing in key projects we are involved in the USA at present AND Present some examples of where we are delivering on other new technology concepts like the internet of things here in Australia
This is to start of a conversation.  We have been active in the are of ITS for many years but thought is an important point in time to start this wider discussion with you
This is a 2 way process.  Today we want to share some 10 minute presentations with you before starting this discussion.
The AGENDA TODAY IS AS FOLLOWS  - SHOW SLIDE
We are keen to continue this discussion with you after today
We will be drafting a white paper  and presenting updates on this material later this year and next year
We look forward to your feedback and continuing to share these ideas with you

3. Soft Vehicles, Soft Roads, Soft Transport three areas running in parallel need a coherent perspective
All the elements are now malleable

5. Soft Vehicles, Soft Roads, Soft Transport three areas running in parallel need a coherent perspective
These issues are the same as
Smart cities
Age friendly cities (WHO)
Resilient cities
ITS is further ahead in policy and practice within its own domain. However,...
The problem is that all of these overlapping domains see that they are in the same position
Each group has a different range of disciplines and modes of governance and accountability
This divergence is no longer possible with the convergence of sensing and data in domains

6. Soft Vehicles, Soft Roads, Soft Transport SofT VEHICLES
Presenting opportunity:
Electrification – PTWs / hybrids
New materials
Externalities like Congestion
Options / sharing - pods – graphics – mum and dad, add as you go
Challenges
Lack of vision …. Being Human (Sydney opera house)
Our needs as
Regulation
Environment
Attitudes

7. Soft Vehicles, Soft Roads, Soft Transport three areas running in parallel need a coherent perspective
Soft roads
Mention water ex. (monitoring water tables – truck restriction)
Bridges and tunnels monitoring, maintenance and management
Future consideration of platoons and dynamic responses of bridge platforms to meet changes in vehicle design – need to inform standards
Diversion and re-routing
Pavement design to meet enhanced lateral control capabilities
Dynamic capacity management – time and space
Mode
Temporal
Optimisation of capacity

8. Soft Vehicles, Soft Roads, Soft Transport three areas running in parallel need a coherent perspective
Soft roads
Mention water ex. (monitoring water tables – truck restriction)
Bridges and tunnels monitoring, maintenance and management
Future consideration of platoons and dynamic responses of bridge platforms to meet changes in vehicle design – need to inform standards
Diversion and re-routing
Pavement design to meet enhanced lateral control capabilities
Dynamic capacity management – time and space
Mode
Temporal
Optimisation of capacity

9. Soft Vehicles, Soft Roads, Soft Transport three areas running in parallel need a coherent perspective
Source: :
“Road” is now full carriageway including paths, tracks and kerb space and connectivity

10. Soft Vehicles, Soft Roads, Soft Transport three areas running in parallel need a coherent perspective
Source: :
“Road” is now full carriageway including paths, tracks and kerb space and connectivity

11. Soft Vehicles, Soft Roads, Soft Transport three areas running in parallel need a coherent perspective
Soft Transport
Goods and people movement now overlap with services
Delivery substitution
Goods vehicles aren’t just goods vehicles anymore (uber & dominos pizza)
4th Party Logistics 4th layer of logistics management (highly information intensive)
Growth of service industries
People
We are now instrumented and will make us part of the vehicle / road complex and we need to plan for this
HUD and vehicle interaction in motorcycle helmet
Accessibility: be aware you are where you have been – Wigan and Clarke
Dynamic and an asset being sold contextually usable and VERY saleable
Privacy and surveillance must be handled more openly with the community

12. Soft Vehicles, Soft Roads, Soft Transport three areas running in parallel need a coherent perspective
CONCLUSION
We have raised a wide range of practical developments in each area
The three major domains interact very strongly
We have limited time to develop policy and governance frameworks to account for this
Adaptability of policy, governance and legal systems are demonstrably too slow to take advantage of our new data driven opportunities
It is clear that more carefully crafted scenarios are needed to make these issues concrete for community

13. Soft Vehicles, Soft Roads, Soft Transport three areas running in parallel need a coherent perspective
Other things we did not consider here....
Iot will have a huge impact on connection between homes, offices, retail activity, vehicles, energy, services and the resulting saleable information
Insufficient attention has been paid to security standards, this is a considerable risk to transport systems
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