Use Case: Smart Transportation 1. Current Situation of Transportation We are in the era right now in which the world become more modern and advanced. If you consider any city and its urban value is totally changed by the people. People are using more and more vehicle just for the sake of easiness. Traffic problem become worst day by day not just to transfer people from one place to another place but the goods also. As per the news publish in The Atlanta an average American spend 38 hours in a year just in traffic and that cost $818 [1]. If you consider the total population of United States, total hours would be 3.78 billion hours and that cost $121 billion annually. This is only for USA. The numbers for other country would be more surprising. This problem is not only about the cost but also about the environment. Traffic problems brings greater impact on environment by emitting carbon dioxide and also on climate changes, also loss of productivity is another side effect of it. Let’s have look on some facts that will clear the view of traffic and story behind it. • Any kind of ground vehicles, ships and air crafts are the main source of transportation for human as well as goods. • Better infrastructure is a plus to boost all this services like rail, road and bridges etc. • Platform where all the journey starts or begin, where consumer get the services like air port, railway station, bus depot etc. This facts we have to consider before going to deep dive in transportation system and this facts may be change from one place to another place and from time to time. Transportation is actually most complex system in our economy. We have so many options to commute in a city like bus, train, cab, car or bike. Even if you do not ride any ... ... middle of paper ... ... environment. 4) Safety measures The heart of any smart system is safety and security, which should not sacrifice at any cost. Smart transportation system can improve both the factors with cost cutting. We all know that CEP is doing real time streaming analysis on data which was gathers due to sensors in vehicle and show the prediction. This prediction help to take proactive action for avoiding some danger situation. Smart transportation system can do analysis on live video streaming, passenger data booking counter and bio metrics sensor. If something is threat full then they can create alert for it. This smart transportation system is link up with police, immigration and other stack holders for customer record. They can look up for the pattern from the old data to verify that the traveler is authorized in the country or not. Everything is happened in just a second.
The self driving trucks not only reduce the price for both the citizens and the companies, but it’ll reduce traffic on highway with it’s feature that removes human errors which are the major causes of traffic jams. The self driving truck will enhance the America’s technology by influencing more companies to create
Autonomous trucks are able to drive for almost 24 hours without any break so the daily range is much wider. Usually, roads get crowded due to the accidents which happen in the middle of the road and it causes a delay on cargo trucks and other vehicles. If there is no rule violation, there is less accident to happen and the more time saves. Autonomous trucks will help manage the traffic better than the way humans manage because technology itself will not violate rules the way humans
Advances in Transportation Technology William Garrison has written an article on ‘Technological Changes and Transportation Development. (Garrison, 2013)’ Transportation is more than technology since it encompasses some systems ranging from people, energy and even money (Geerlings, Lohuis, Wiegmans, & Willemsen, 2009). The advances in technology shape out lives of individuals, their landscapes and culture. Advances in technology are critical in all the aspects of life ranging from political issues, cultural perspectives of life all the way to the economic standards that people live.
Finding ways to move goods from one point to another at a reasonable cost and within an acceptable time frame is a growing challenge for global businesses today. The costs and risks associated with transportation are increasing with the advent of globalization and low-cost-country sourcing. Even for companies with local operations only, they have to supply their products to various parts of a country which increases the costs and risks. Since the cost of gasoline has been on an upward trend, high level of efficiency in transportation is required to lower the costs involved and the risks associated with the costs. Costs concepts in transportation include economic, social and accounting costs. The risks and costs involved increases if the various modes of transport are used. There has been concern over many businesses failure to strategically think when they employ multimodal transportation services. Many businesses prefer the least expensive multimodal model instead of choosing the most effective; this trade-off is very expensive with hidden costs and risks increasing significantly (Molenaar, Anderson, Schexnayder, National Research Council (U.S.)., National Cooperative Highway Research Program., American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials., & United States, 2010).
“The provision of services and infrastructure for the mobility of people and goods needed for economic and social development and improved quality of life and competitiveness. These services and transport infrastructure provide secure, reliable, economical, efficient, equitable and affordable access to all, while mitigating the negative impacts on health and the environment locally and globally, in the short, medium and long term without compromising the development of future generations."
Transportation system is a dynamic system. Information about traffic must be regularly updated to keep pace with ever-changing transportation system. Data must be collected and analyzed systematically to get representative information.
Traffic jam is one of the most serious problems of urbanization, almost all the modern cities are facing different levels of traffic jam problems. In general, people can ease the traffic jam and not compromise the quality of life by a policy of sustainable development in two aspects including formulating a more efficient transport pattern and changing the urban construction.
Most people take the urban public transportation system for granted. It is used in every aspect of our daily lives: work, education, medical necessities, recreation, etc. It is also important for the transportation of goods and services, which aids the growth and maintenance of our economy. Urban public transportation is the critical component of our quality of life and economic stability. The MBTA, the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority, is Boston and Eastern Massachusetts’s major transportation service. The MBTA has played a central role in the development of Boston and surrounding cities and towns for more than a century; providing service from 175 cities and towns into Boston. On an average weekday over 1.2 million trips are made on the subway, buses, commuter lines and other services in the mass transit system. With an international airport, a ship port, the highways, and the rail lines to connect regional cities and towns to national and international destinations and markets, Boston’s urban public transportation system has made the region’s growing role in the global economy possible.
In today's changing business environment, information technology plays an incredibly important role in almost every aspect of the day to day life of almost every industry. The transportation industry is, of course, no different. From the transport of goods from manufacture, to warehousing, to retail, to end-user, the industry relies on information technology to get things done. The transportation of people is the exact same; incredibly important to get done yet impossible without the impact of information technology.
We all use vehicles for transportation. People usually go to their desired destination either by driving their own cars or traveling in public transportation. Actually, it might be tough to choose that which one is the best selection for people to travel. Many people choose one of them according to their comfort while traveling and both of them have advantages and disadvantages in different conditions. Public transportation and driving own car both shares differences and similarities in many aspects, such as facility, cost, and comfort as well as traffic jam and accident occurrence.
Most of cities that people live are sequentially growing, daily routine of many people are also adapted for surrounding in the present. A lot of people have to spend most of their time with travelling though long distances to get from one place to another for connecting their businesses or other purposes by transportation. Most people use public transportation such as BTS and MRT to go each places while many people are using their own cars to travel. Thereby, both transportations have the same destination that is taking and moving people. People can choose vehicles from alter reasons depend on how people are responded to their needs by public transportation and private car that are different in convenience of travelling, expenditure of money and security of travel.
It is considered a holistic approach that might be involved some factors providing an overall speed of journey (Mannering, Walter, and Scott, 2004). Wyatt (1997) states that the rail transportation has been made the urban areas to develop the transport network places with producing a good network to be placed over location with a poor network. For example in European Union (EU), the rail company had been employing around 570,000 people across passenger and freight operations in year 2012. From here, the rail transport is critical by the EU strategy to improve their economic condition. This rail sector had been makes a large contribution in oversea country.
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Land transportation is the dominant form of transportation in the world. People can move about land under their own power, either by walking or by other forms of human-powered transportation such as the bicycle. People also use domestic animals as a means of transportation, both for riding and for pulling wheeled wagons or carts.
Wikipedia defines traffic congestion as the condition on road networks that occur as the use as use increase is characterized by slower speed, longer trip times and increased vehicular queuing. Congestion occurs when the demand for transport is greater than the supply of transport in a particular part of the transport system. Congestion is deemed bad for the economy as it has a negative impact on the business activities that are common in towns like Windhoek. Traffic congestion is popular during the mornings when everybody is travelling to school, work it is also popular during the night when people have knocked off and are returning to their homes.