Smart Transport System Insights

Synopsis

Smart Transport Systems or Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) encompass a range of wireless and wired communications-based information technologies that can be integrated into transportation infrastructure and in vehicles.

This report provides an overview of developments occurring in Intelligent/Smart Transport systems and includes a case study on developments in Australia.

Key developments:

Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS) allow for improvements in managing traffic congestion; accident avoidance; lower fuel usage and environmental pollution; Australia provides good examples of ITS applications and the country introduced its first ITS system in the early 1970s.

Table of Contents

• 1. Synopsis
• 2. What is IT?
• 3. Electric Vehicles (EV)
  • 3.1 Introduction
    • 3.1.1 The upcoming electric vehicle tsunami
  • 3.2 Vehicle to Grid (V2G)
    • 3.2.1 Nearly 100,000 Vehicles to be Enabled with V2G Technologies by 2017
• 4. Dedicated Short-Range Communications
  • 4.1 Overview of developments
• 5. Case study – Australia
  • 5.1 Background
  • 5.2 Outcomes ITS Summit 2009
    • 5.2.1 Regulatory framework – 2010
  • 5.3 Smart Transport and the NBN
    • 5.3.1 Trans-sector approach to NBN
    • 5.3.2 Government’s Smart infrastructure initiative
  • 5.4 Broadband extends to public transport
• 6. Other examples
  • 6.1 Google Traffic
  • 6.2 Vehicle telematics
  • 6.3 e-Call
• 7. Related reports

• Exhibit 1 - Learning from e-cars
• Exhibit 2 – Intelligent transport systems today
• Exhibit 3 – Intelligent Cars – IntelliDrive project