Cambridge Autonomous Rapid Transport

*该项目将探索如何在剑桥东部部署连接和自动移动技术（CAMT），以解决复杂条件下的现实交通问题-全国乃至世界各地城市的共同条件。*剑桥面临着严峻的交通问题：过度拥挤的道路，迫切需要更多的住房来支持创造的就业机会，以及人口密集的历史悠久的城市形态，这使得提供交通干预非常具有挑战性。解决这些问题的历史性努力留下了丰富的经验可供借鉴。由CAMT开启的运输技术的跨越式变革为解决这一问题提供了新的机会，并在此过程中确定CAMT如何使其他城市充分发挥其潜力。*以前的研究集中在CAMT可以快速或轻松推出的机会上，本项目侧重于如何使用CAMT来解决现有问题。它不会回避现有地点的复杂性，使开发一种可复制的策略能够解决交通挑战，即使在特定的物理条件不容易获得的地方。*研究确定的走廊贯穿剑桥东部，连接搬迁后的纽马基特路停车换乘设施（纽马基特路/机场路），穿过剑桥机场与剑桥站。走廊的特点各不相同，一些部分穿过开阔的田野，另一些部分穿过现有的社区。这将确保研究测试CAMT如何在一个真实的地方部署，解决一个真实的问题，并改善那些在该地区生活或工作的人的生活。*作为项目一部分的可行性研究（剑桥自主快速交通）将探索CAMT的潜力，以支持主要新开发项目的可持续交付。剑桥的关键限制是土地和可达性——确定可持续和可交付的CAMT解决方案可以在剑桥高效、快速增长、知识密集型技术经济中释放所需的增长，这对英国GDP做出了重大贡献，同时有助于实现净零。这需要一种创新的交通解决方案，在“现实生活条件”下进行测试，然后在整个城市中应用。

* This project will explore how Connected and Automated Mobility Technology (CAMT) can be deployed in the east of Cambridge to solve real-world transport problems in complex conditions -- conditions shared by cities across the country and around the world.* Cambridge suffers from a challenging transport problem: overly congested roads, a desperate need for more homes to support the amount of jobs being created, and a dense, historic urban form which makes delivering transport interventions hugely challenging. Historic efforts to solve these issues leaves extensive experience to build on. The step change in transport technology that is being unlocked by CAMT presents a new opportunity to tackle this problem, and in doing so, identify how CAMT can enable other cities to unlock their full potential.* Where previous studies have focused on opportunities where CAMT could be rolled out quickly or easily, this project focuses instead on how CAMT could be used to solve an existing problem. It will not shy away from the complexities of existing places, enabling development of a replicable strategy that can solve transport challenges even where a particular set of physical conditions are not readily available.* The corridor identified for the study runs through eastern Cambridge, linking the relocated Newmarket Road Park & Ride facility (Newmarket Road / Airport Way) through the Cambridge Airport site with Cambridge Station. The corridor is varied in character, with some sections running through open field and others through existing neighbourhoods. This will ensure the study tests how CAMT could be deployed in a real place, to solve a real problem, and improve the lives of those who live or work in the area.* The feasibility study produced as part of the project (the Cambridge Autonomous Rapid Transit) will explore the potential of CAMT to support sustainable delivery of major new development. The key constraint in Cambridge is land and accessibility -- identifying sustainable and deliverable CAMT solutions could unlock needed growth within a highly productive, fast growing, knowledge-intensive technology economy in Cambridge which contributes significantly to UK GDP whilst contributing to achievement of net zero. This requires an innovative transport solution tested in 'real life conditions' and then applied over time across the whole city.