Archive for May, 2014

Workshop Invitation

May 28th, 2014

ap 020Envisioning Automated Vehicles within the Built Environment: 2020, 2035, 2050.
Friday July 18th, 2014 – Hyatt Regency SF Airport.

Geared to Staff from Metropolitan Planning Organizations, County Transportation Agencies, and other Regional Planners.

In this hands-on, interactive workshop, participants will re-imagine the built environment enabled by automated vehicle technologies.

Small, eclectic teams of experts combining knowledge of a wide range of fields – city planning, infrastructure and architecture, car design, engineering, software and systems – will collaborate on scenarios. Each team starts with a different “before” condition that presents roadway, neighborhood/district and regional scales, described in words, images, maps and diagrams. They will also be provided with a time-horizon for which to develop a new scenario based on the presence of specified types of vehicles with varying degrees of shared mobility, connected vehicle technology, and autonomous operation. Case studies will include a range of modes of transportation (air, bus, rail) and roadways (freeway, arterial, residential), land use (residential, commercial, agricultural, industrial) and building type (parking, dwelling, etc.), and density.

Teams will generate, through different interactive methods and writing/visualizing techniques, “after” scenarios in order to think through the challenges and benefits to our built environment that an autonomous mobility future can hold. Each team’s work will be facilitated by an urban designer or architect.

RSVP by July 11th. Attendance is free. Limit 50 attendees.
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For more details please download the pdf flyer.

Webinar: Public Transport Complemented

May 2nd, 2014

ATRA Industry GroupWe would like to invite you to join the webinar organised by the Advanced Transit Association Industry Group (ATRA IG) on May 29th 2014 at 15:00 UK.

The webinar is entitled ‘Public Transport Complemented’ and will feature speakers from some of our members including PRT Consulting, 2getthere and ULTra Global PRT providing an introduction to Automated Transit Networks. It will last approximately 40 minutes after which there will be opportunity to ask questions to the speakers and members of the ATRA Industry Group. During the session we will be covering topics such as:

  • What are Automated Transit Networks (ATN)?
  • How can it best be used to enhance existing public transportation?
  • How current operational systems are performing.

Please note that there is no requirement to register for the webinar: by simply using the URL below you can request access to the meeting room at the start of the webinar. All you have to do is enter your name, or an alias if you desire to remain anonymous. As the room accommodates 100 attendees only, please be sure to join on time!

URL: https://webmeeting.umd.edu/igatra/ 

ATRA Industry Group: 2getthere, Arup, Berger/ABAM, Lea+Elliott, LogistikCentrum, Podaris, PRT Consulting, ULTra Global PRT, University of Bologna