Automated and transformative transportation systems - building the analytical foundation

许多技术进步正在迅速涌现，并改变着我们的旅行方式。交通运输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、网约车和网约车共享、创新的第一英里和最后一英里运输服务以及机器人送货。随着技术的快速发展，旅行者的态度也发生了同样的转变，需求也在不断涌现。迫切需要对城市规模效应进行结构化研究。因此，我们的研究重点是城市中大型和复杂的交通系统，而不是车辆技术创造本身。我们专注于如何利用颠覆性的运输技术和服务，以最大限度地为加拿大人带来利益，同时避免潜在的风险和陷阱。城市自动化和转型交通中心（city - catts）成立于2017年，旨在解决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向积极的方向转变，避免适得其反的旅游趋势的出现，并鼓励加拿大城市成为北美和世界的领导者。本项目从三个核心方面构建了城市- catts的分析基础：(1)量化变革技术对交通系统需求、基础设施能力和系统性能的影响；(2)向社会积极方向引导不可避免的转型；(3)尊重、保护和提高城市的经济、社会和环境可持续性。集体努力包括五个主要项目，在运输需求预测、交通控制和管理、过境系统规划和操作、城市货运系统和可持续性等研究领域处理运输变革问题。由此产生的知识和工具是加拿大独有的，将指导变革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.