Automated and transformative transportation systems - building the analytical foundation

无数的技术进步正在迅速涌现，并改变着我们的旅行方式。交通系统的关键新兴颠覆性技术和服务包括驾驶自动化、无处不在的连接、电子叫车和电子共享、创新的第一英里最后一英里交通服务，以及机器人送货。随着技术的快速发展，旅行者方面也出现了同样具有变革性的态度变化和新的需求。迫切需要一项结构化的研究来解决城市规模效应。因此，我们的研究重点是城市中大型而复杂的交通系统，而不是车辆技术创造本身。我们专注于如何利用颠覆性交通技术和服务来最大限度地为加拿大人带来好处，同时避免潜在的风险和陷阱。iCity自动化和转型交通中心(iCity-CATS)成立于2017年，旨在应对颠覆性交通技术和服务对我们城市的大规模影响。它的创建是为了引导社会转型朝着积极的方向发展，避免出现适得其反的旅行趋势，并鼓励加拿大城市成为北美和世界的领导者。该项目围绕三个核心方面建立了iCity-CATS的分析基础：(1)量化变革性技术对交通系统需求、基础设施容量和系统性能的影响，(2)引导不可避免的社会转型，(3)尊重、保护和改善我们城市的经济、社会和环境的可持续性。集体努力包括五个主要项目，这些项目涉及交通需求预测、交通控制和管理、交通系统规划和运营、城市货运系统和可持续发展等研究领域的变革性交通。由此产生的知识和工具是加拿大独有的，将指导变革性技术时代交通系统的设计、采用和治理。

Numerous technological advances are rapidly emerging and transforming how we travel. The key emerging disruptive technologies and services to transportation systems include driving automation, pervasive connectivity, E-hailing and E-sharing, innovative first-mile last-mile transit services, and robotic delivery of goods. As technology is rapidly advancing, there are equally transformative attitudinal changes and emerging needs on the travellers' side. There is an urgent need for a structured research to address the city scale effects. Our research therefore focuses on large and complex transportation systems in cities, and not on vehicular technology creation per se. We focus on how to exploit disruptive transportation technologies and services to maximize the benefits to Canadians while avoiding potential risks and pitfalls.The iCity Centre for Automated and Transformative Transportation (iCity-CATTS), established in 2017, aims at addressing the large-scale impacts of disruptive transportation technologies and services on our cities. It is created to guide societal transformation in a positive direction, avoid the emergence of counterproductive travel trends, and emboldens Canadian cities as leaders in North America and the world. This project builds the analytical foundation of the iCity-CATTS along three core aspects: (1) quantifying the impacts of transformative technologies on transportation system demands, infrastructure capacities, and system performance, (2) guide the inevitable transformation in socially positive directions, and (3) respect, protect and improve the economic, social and environmental sustainability of our cities. The collective effort includes five main projects that address transformative transportation in the research areas of transportation demand forecasting, traffic control and management, transit systems planning and operations, urban freight systems, and sustainability. The resulting knowledge and tools are unique to Canada and will guide the design, adoption, and governance of transportation systems in the era of transformative technologies.