Autonomous Healthlink: Providing seamless accessible travel between NSECH and the Northumberland Line

该项目将研究在新诺森伯兰线的Seaton Delaval站和诺森伯兰专科急救医院（NSECH）之间的专用路线上提供零排放CAM系统的可行性诺森伯兰线是一个全国性的重要客运铁路项目，将诺森伯兰郡的农村地区与该县主要城镇的就业和设施以及纽卡斯尔更广泛的城市地区连接起来，北泰恩赛德。NSECH是一个区域性的重要医疗机构，为来自英格兰东北部的重症和受伤患者提供世界一流的护理。诺森比亚医疗保健NHS基金会信托计划开发该网站，为患者提供进一步的服务，但他们的计划的一个关键障碍是医院网站的可达性。尽管距离新火车站不到2公里，NSECH的公共交通工具有限-每小时只有两辆公交车进入医院网站，为每年约10万名患者提供服务，医院内工作的员工有2000人，没有专门的自行车路线，只有一条行人路线进出医院。新铁路车站并没有建议连接至新界东南医院。这项工程计划的重点是在分隔铁路车站及新界东南医院的土地上安装计算机辅助道路系统，而土地业权人亦支持这项研究。我们将把这一点与"传统"公共交通系统的交付进行比较，以提供一个无障碍的低碳解决方案，来应对将这两个重要的公共基础设施连接在一起的挑战。纽卡斯尔大学利用其交付和评估以前CAM方案的经验，将培养对用户的理解-以服务交付和可访问性等为中心的要求，以了解如何使其成为成功和可用的PT解决方案，并为医院及其员工提供可持续服务，拟议的Dromos系统将看到连接的自动驾驶汽车既可以单独工作，也可以作为沿着新的隔离基础设施的"火车"工作，提供安全，直接，需求响应和可靠的公共交通解决方案，可以在很短的时间内交付，但具有一定程度的隐私，可访问性和包容性，这是当今提供的任何其他交通方式都不可能实现的。

The project will study the feasibility of delivering a zero emission CAM system on a purpose-built route between Seaton Delaval Station on the new Northumberland Line and Northumbria Specialist Emergency Care Hospital (NSECH) in Cramlington.The Northumberland Line is a nationally important passenger rail project linking the rural areas of Northumberland to the employment and facilities of the county's main towns and the wider urban areas of Newcastle and North Tyneside.NSECH is a regionally important healthcare facility providing world-class care for critically ill and injured patients from across the northeast of England. Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust plan on developing the site to provide further services to patients, but a key barrier to their plans is the accessibility of the hospital site.Despite being less than 2km from the new rail station, NSECH has limited access by public transport -- only two buses an hour enter the hospital site to serve the circa 100,000 patients seen annually and the 2,000 staff that work within the hospital, and there are no dedicated cycle routes and only one pedestrian route in / out of the site. The new rail station does not propose any link to NSECH.The project will focus on the delivery of a CAM system on the land that separates the rail station and NSECH, and we have the benefit of the landowner supporting the study. We will compare this to the delivery of a 'traditional' mass transit public transport system in providing an accessible, low-carbon solution to the challenge of linking these two vital pieces of public infrastructure together.Newcastle University, using its experience of delivering and evaluating previous CAM schemes, will develop an understanding of the user-centric requirements such as service delivery and accessibility to understand what could make this a successful and useable PT solution and sustainable service for the hospital, its staff, patients and visitorsThe proposed Dromos system would see connected autonomous vehicles working both individually and as a 'train' along new, segregated infrastructure, offering a safe, direct, demand responsive and reliable public transport solution which could be delivered in a very short timeframe, yet with a level of privacy, accessibility and inclusion not possible through any other mode of transport on offer today.