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U.S. Department of Transportation
Research and Innovative Technology Administration
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Vision for Future Transportation System
§Multi-modal surface transportation system—with connectivity as its central core.
§Vehicles (cars, trucks, buses, fleets of all kinds), the infrastructure and mobile devices, but remembering people and goods.
§Leveraging technology to maximize safety, mobility, accessibility, reliability sustainability and social equity—enabled through wireless communications—in all modes.
§First priority is safety: crash and injury prevention.
§Foster technological advances across borders—for benefit of all international partners.
§Open platform for innovation: vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) communications is the major driving technology.
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v2v.jpg The IntelliDrive system would rely on an active safety system that involves sensing and messaging not only between vehicles, but between vehicles and outside elements.
A few thoughts on our vision of America’s future transportation system:
The vision includes strong and sustained cooperation and coordination with our international partners.
Improving safety in all modes of transportation – is our first priority.
A key feature of our transportation safety strategy centers on Intelligent Transportation Systems that enable an interconnected multi-modal surface transportation network.
Our highway safety legacy in the previous century has been to focus on increasing survivability and mitigating the severity of crashes which are more or less accepted as inevitable.
Our vision of the future is to move beyond improved survivability to crash prevention.