BRITE: bus rapid transit system

计划在魁北克市区开发快速公交系统（BRT）或可持续公交系统（SBT）（以下简称BRT-SBT）。BRT-SBT系统的实施是魁北克市长期可持续流动性和交通计划的一部分。典型的BRT-SBT系统由两辆24米长的双铰接车辆组成，每辆车辆都配备有导向系统。这种BRT-SBT系统将由魁北克市的RTC（首都交通网）开发。类似的BRT-SBT系统正在世界其他地方规划或已经投入使用。本建议书中描述的项目旨在证明在真实的运行条件下BRT-SBT运输范例中半自主引导车辆组件的可行性，并根据要使用的传感器阵列、控制和驾驶员系统接口定义其架构。该研究由学术团队与该项目的工业合作伙伴Thales Canada和Leddartech合作进行，旨在实现该项目的主要目标，包括数据收集和设计，城市公交车辆半自主导航原型系统实现与试验在魁北克市地区通常满足的道路和气候条件方面的实际操作环境中，第一代半自动原型车应满足以下要求：引导巴士车辆应提供与有轨电车相似的乘客安全和舒适度，并应降低能耗（燃料和/或电力）;引导系统应采用开放式（“插件”）架构，以便能够在各种车型上安装该研究包括三个研究重点：i）感知，ii）用于车辆控制的机械插件架构和iii）用于半自动驾驶的系统集成。

A Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) system or Sustainable Bus Transit (SBT) system (BRT-SBT in the following) is planned to be developed in the Quebec City area. The implementation of the BRT-SBT system is part of the long term sustainable mobility and transportation plan of Quebec City. The typical BRT-SBT system consists in trains of two bi-articulated vehicles of 24 metres each equipped by a guidance system. Such a BRT-SBT system will be exploited by Quebec City's RTC (Réseau de Transport de la Capitale). Similar BRT-SBT systems are planned or already in service elsewhere in the world.The project described in this proposal aims to demonstrate feasibility of the semi-autonomous guided vehicle component within the BRT-SBT transportation paradigm in real operating conditions and to define its architecture in terms of arrays of sensors to be used, control and driver-system interfaces. The research to be conducted by the academic team in cooperation with Thales Canada and Leddartech, the industrial partners in the project, aims at reaching the main objective of the project which consists in the collection of data and the design, implementation and test of a prototype for semi-autonomous guidance of a urban bus vehicle (single bus) in a realistic operating environment with respect to road and climatic conditions typically met in the Quebec City area. This first generation semi-autonomous prototype should meet the following requirements: the guided bus vehicle should offer levels of passenger safety and comfort similar to the ones experienced on tramways and should reduce energy consumption (be it fuel and/or electricity);the guidance system should adopt an open (''plug-in'') architecture with respect to its hardware components and software modules / interfaces, so as to enable its installation on a wide spectrum of vehicle models (fuel-, electric- of hybrid-powered).The research is comprised of three research thrusts: i) perception, ii) mechanical plug-in architecture for vehicle control and iii) system integration for semi-autonomous driving.