BRITE: bus rapid transit system

魁北克市计划开发快速公交(BRT)系统或可持续公交(SBT)系统(以下简称BRT-SBT)。BRT-SBT系统的实施是魁北克市长期可持续机动性和交通计划的一部分。典型的BRT-SBT系统由两辆24米长的双关节车辆组成，每辆车都配备了一个导航系统。这样的BRT-SBT系统将由魁北克市的RTC(Réseau de Transport de la Capitale)使用。类似的BRT-SBT系统正在计划中或已经在世界其他地方投入使用。**本提案中描述的项目旨在展示BRT-SBT运输模式中半自动引导车辆组件在实际运行条件下的可行性，并根据要使用的传感器阵列、控制和驾驶员-系统接口来定义其体系结构。学术小组将与该项目的工业合作伙伴泰利斯加拿大公司和LeddarTech公司合作进行研究，旨在实现该项目的主要目标，即收集数据，并根据魁北克市地区通常遇到的道路和气候条件，在现实运营环境中设计、实施和测试城市巴士车辆(单人巴士)的半自动制导原型。这种第一代半自动原型应该满足以下要求：有导引的巴士车辆应提供与有轨电车相似的乘客安全和舒适性水平，并应降低能源消耗(无论是燃料和/或电力)；**导航系统应在硬件组件和软件模块/接口方面采用开放式(‘插件’)架构，以便能够在多种车型(燃料、电动或混合动力)上安装。**本研究包括三个研究方向：i)感知，ii)用于车辆控制的机械插件架构，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.************