Executive Summary (abbreviated)
America ’s road transportation sytem is choking under the combined impact of an estimated 251million* vehicles. In virtually every city, stoplight proliferation, inefficient highway interchanges, poorly maintained vehicles, solo drivers, impaired drivers, lost drivers, lawless drivers, slow drivers and lack of parking result in rush-hour gridlock, accidents, fatalities, injuries, economic losses, stressed-out citizens, road rage — and very long travel times.

Our current road transportation system is essentially obsolete, but we are stuck with it unless a more advanced system is developed, supported and adopted.

This presentation is a projection of what we could be doing now, and doing quickly, with current and emerging technologies.

As things stand now, taxpayers must still fund massively-expensive traffic-law enforcement, emergency health care, insurance, road maintenance, and more conventional road-building. Even so, this is just the "tip of the iceberg" when you consider problems associated with our current road system.

At local levels, “fixes” for gridlock have been proposed and implemented, but traffic volume always outgrows the “solutions.”

What will happen if we don’t do anything? What consequences will we face ten years from now? Twenty years from now?

At ASI/ATS our goal is to establish and present a system vision for automated transport. Following a decade of research, ASI/ATS has patented standards of design, performance, engineering and safety for automated vehicles, operating systems and infrastructure.

* Number estimated using latest Bureau of Transportation Statistics (2000) and rate of growith between 1999-2000.