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西顿利拉瓦尔站和克拉姆灵顿诺森比亚急救专科医院(NSECH)之间专门建造的线路上提供零排放CAM系统的可行性。诺森伯兰线是一个全国重要的客运铁路项目，将诺森伯兰的农村地区与该县主要城镇和纽卡斯尔和北泰恩赛德更广泛的城市地区的就业和设施连接起来。NSECH是一家地区性重要的医疗机构，为来自英格兰东北部的危重病人和受伤患者提供世界级的护理。Norhumbria Healthcare NHS基金会信托基金计划开发该网站，为患者提供进一步的服务，但他们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的公共交通工具却很有限--每小时只有两辆公交车进入医院网站，为每年约10万名患者和医院内的2000名工作人员服务，而且没有专用的自行车道，只有一条步行道进出网站。新的铁路车站没有提出任何连接到NSECH的建议。该项目将专注于在分隔火车站和NSECH的土地上提供CAM系统，我们将受益于支持这项研究的土地所有者。我们将把这一点与传统公共交通系统的交付进行比较，以提供方便、低碳的解决方案，以应对将这两个至关重要的公共基础设施连接在一起的挑战。纽卡斯尔大学将利用其交付和评估以前的CAM方案的经验，发展对以用户为中心的要求的理解，如服务交付和可访问性，以了解什么可以使这一解决方案成为成功和可用的PT解决方案，并为医院、其工作人员、患者和访客提供可持续的服务。拟议的Dromos系统将看到联网的自动驾驶车辆单独工作，并作为一列火车沿着新的、分离的基础设施运行，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，但具有私密性、可访问性和包容性，这是目前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.