American
Standards Institute for Automated Transport Systems, LLC
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Executive
Summary
America ’s
road transportation system is choking under the combined impact
of an estimated 251 million* vehicles. Look around in
your own city. Stoplight proliferation, inefficient interchanges,
poorly maintained vehicles, solo drivers, impaired drivers, lost
drivers, lawless drivers, slow drivers and lack of parking result
in rush-hour gridlock, accidents, injuries, fatalities, staggering
economic losses, stressed-out citizens, road rage — and
very long travel times.
At local levels, "fixes" for
gridlock have been implemented, but traffic volume always outgrows
the "solutions." Our current road transportation system
is essentially obsolete, but we are stuck with it unless a more
advanced system is developed, supported and adopted. You will
learn about such an intelligent transportation system in our
presentation.
Meanwhile… to
prop up our dying transportation system, the nation funds massively-expensive
traffic-law enforcement, emergency health care, insurance, road
maintenance, and more conventional road-building. Many other
serious problems arise out of our current system, deeply INJURING
individuals and society at large.
What can be
done?
The American
Standards Institute for Automated Transport Systems (ASI/ATS)
was established to present a unified vision for automated transport,
and has patented standards of design, performance, engineering
and safety for vehicles, operating systems and infrastructure.
ASI/ATS invites
comments from all citizens and participation
of interested parties in the
development of software applications, components, controls,
sensors, communication devices, and entire vehicles
designed to travel on both automated and non-automated roadways. In
this concept-level introduction to a specific intelligent transportation
system, ASI/ATS addresses:
- automated
highways and roadway infrastructure
- automated
control of cars
- automated
traffic routing
- uninterrupted
origin-to-destination travel
- universal
interstate interchanges
- automated
parking
- level-of-service
standards
- automated
roadway grid concepts for cities
- automated
grocery delivery
- concept
cars for intelligent transporation systems
Future automated
cars of the world proposed by ASI/ATS include:
- fuel-efficient
commuter cars and trucks
- handicap-accessible
family cars
- metropolitan mass-transit
vehicles
- luxury vacation
cruisers
- interstate
mass-transit vehicles
- tiny unmanned
errand-runners
- huge
cargo-transport trucks
Also addressed
in this presentation (flash movie and web site chapters) :
- implementation
of an intellegent road transportation
system
- private ownership
and taxi-style models to pay for automated transport
- environmental,
economic, public-safety, and esthetic issues.
Technical
details are covered in the forthcoming Intermediate and Advanced sections.
* Number estimated
from latest Bureau
of Transportation Statistics and rate of growth between
1999-2000.
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