NSF/USDOT Partnership for Exploratory Research - ICSST: Multi-disciplinary Exploratory Research to Exploit Motor Vehicle Information and Communications Technology

鉴于传感器和无线通信的技术进步，未来的机动车辆将能够报告关于其自身状况和本地环境的各种信息，包括它们所在的基础设施的状况。尽管存在许多用于从机动车辆传输的车辆和基础设施相关信息的用途，目前，除了机动车所有者的私人使用之外，该信息没有必要可用于任何事情。 该研究项目的重点是确定机动车辆信息的可能社会用途，以及解决技术和组织障碍的可能方法，以更好地利用这一信息。 研究目标是：（1）确定机动车辆传感器信息可以被最佳地收集、通信和管理以提供访问但确保隐私的方式，（2）确定从机动车辆收集的信息的潜在用途和益处，及（3）就所收集的资料制订适当的业务计划，以供融资及管理。研究方法包括广泛及跨部门的研究，对系统范围的影响进行纪律调查，以期确定不同数据使用之间的规模经济和协同作用。 这一探索性研究的预期贡献包括一系列学科特定和跨学科的研究问题，以及明确的研究议程和利用机动车辆信息和通信技术的商业计划。

Given the technological advancements in sensors and wireless communications, future motor vehicles will be capable of reporting a wide variety of information about their own conditions and the local environment, including the condition of the infrastructure that they are on. Even though many uses exist for the vehicle and infrastructure related information transmitted from the motor vehicles, currently there is no necessity for this information to be available for anything other than the private use of the motor vehicle owner. The research project focuses on identifying possible social uses of motor vehicle information and of possible ways to address technical and organizational barriers for greater use of this information. The research objectives are: (1) to identify ways in which motor vehicle sensor information could best be collected, communicated and managed to provide access yet ensure privacy, (2) to identify potential uses and benefits of the information collected from motor vehicles, and (3) to develop an appropriate business plan for financing and managing of the information collected.The research approach includes a wide-ranging and inter-disciplinary investigation of system wide effects with the expectation of identifying economies of scale and synergies among different data uses. The expected contributions of this exploratory research include a list of discipline specific and interdisciplinary research issues, and a clear research agenda and a business plan for exploiting motor-vehicle information and communications technology.