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A new year brings new technologies, new ideas, and new opportunities to innovate. Our most recent issue tackles the rise of #6G, #lidartechnology, and looks at a feasible roadmap for #AV integration on a massive scale.
Event Preview (TRB Annual Meeting) (p.6)
The 103rd TRB Annual Meeting is well underway, and TTi spoke with the winners of its 2024 awards about the importance of #TRBAM.
Award Winners:
Nat Ford, chief executive officer, Jacksonville Transportation Authority (JTA)
John Mason., former chancellor and dean, Penn State Harrisburg
Susan Handy, director, National Center for Sustainable Transportation at University of California, Davis
Imad L. Al-Qadi, founding director, Illinois Center for Transportation
ACE up the sleeve (p.12)
Not all AVs are created equal, and Scott Belcher, founder, Automated. Connected. Electric. Shared. (ACES) Mobility Coalition, is working tirelessly to ensure the public sector development of AV systems is prioritized alongside the private sector.
Seeing The Light (p.14)
All things lidar (light detection and ranging) as TTi speaks with some of the vendors and academic experts (below) developing new and exciting ways to utilise the technology for traffic management.
Mitchell Hourtienne, chief commercial officer, Cepton
Taylor Li, Ph.D., P.E., University of Texas
Federico Vincenzi, CEO, CoMark SpA
Zeina Nazer, P.Eng M.Sc. MBA, co-founder, CITIES FORUM
Sixth Sense (p. 22)
6G is set to become the prime enabler of multiple convergent technologies. Walid Saad, professor of electrical and computer engineering, Virginia Tech, Peter Vetter, president, Nokia Bell Labs Core Research, Ray Sheriff, professor and associate head of engineering, Edge Hill University, uncover a new paradigm in #transportationmanagement .
Help Is At Hand (p.30)
In the right hands, 3PP is a boon to agencies and customers alike. Lev Pinelis, MS, PE & Marissa Burkett of Toll Insight discuss a new framework of recommendations to overhaul updated practices, with help from Andrew Peppard, VP national practice lead, Kapsch TrafficCom AG, Frederic Charlier, CEO, ClearRoad, and Joe Clavelle, VP business development, Bestpass.
Is Europe Ready To RUC? (p.36)
Road user charging (RUC) needs a bit of sprucing up. TTi meets the SPRUCE team, led by Steve M., founder, SPRUCE – Specialists Providing Road User Charging Expertise, as to the =why and how of RUC pilots aimed at supplementing dwindling gas tax revenues.
Opinion (p.41- 47)
Four columns from our regular contributors covering everything from roadway fatalities to large language models.
Columnists:
Kirk Steudle, national transportation advisor, Steudle Executive Group
Gregory D. Winfree, Esq., Agency Director, Texas A&M Transportation Institute (TTI)
Nick Reed, founder and CEO, Reed Mobility
JJ Eden, executive director, North Carolina Turnpike Authority
Integrated Facility Management EMEA Director
10moLa interconexión vehículo-infraestructura, uso de las nuevas tecnologías, AI y ML… aunque es muy ilusionante, hace falta más inversión por parte de las administraciones para generar las bases que luego permitan su uso masivo y que todos nos beneficiemos de ello.