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In this paper, we propose to share EasyMile’s views on these issues. We will first describe our vision on the future of logistics – thanks to its fundamentals, we see the logistics industry pioneering the transition towards a highly automated and interconnected mobility w...Lead moreIn this paper, we propose to share EasyMile’s views on these issues. We will first describe our vision on the future of logistics – thanks to its fundamentals, we see the logistics industry pioneering the transition towards a highly automated and interconnected mobility world. We will then deepdive into the specificities of fleet management in a logistics environment and underline what we see as key success factors. At the end of this paper we describe the technical and business choices that we took when developing our portfolio of products that we currently propose to our customers in the logistics industry: the TractEasy, a 25T tow-tractor that can operate in both indoors and outdoors environments; and EZ Fleet, our proprietary fleet management system; and the EZ10, the most deployed autonomous shuttle worldwide, designed to carry up to 15 people in limited speed environments.

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Corporate/Enterprise mobility requirements are currently met with various modes of transport, all of which are managed either manually or through fragmented, monolithic support tools and technologies. With the transition of total cost of ownership to total cost of mobilit...Lead moreCorporate/Enterprise mobility requirements are currently met with various modes of transport, all of which are managed either manually or through fragmented, monolithic support tools and technologies. With the transition of total cost of ownership to total cost of mobility, there is a greater need to manage all or most corporate mobility requirements through a single platform to minimize the cost, increase access to multimodal solutions and most importantly make more convenient for the employees. This is not an evident task as each city have its own realities and infrastructure as well as the corporations’ requirements vary, hence preventing the proliferation of a one solution fits all approach. Yet a platform with configuration and integration abilities on the technical front and through analysis, right partnerships and execution ability in the regions it is deployed would be momentum providers of successful deployment. Vektor’s initiation of such platform the ongoing process of joining the existing functionality and deeper integration with mobility solutions, case studies and initial results will be discussed in this paper.

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This paper presents an overview of applications of automated and autonomous vehicle technology to public transportation. The authors explain how this emerging technology can help cities to meet mobility challenges and provide compelling experiences for passengers, whilst ...Lead moreThis paper presents an overview of applications of automated and autonomous vehicle technology to public transportation. The authors explain how this emerging technology can help cities to meet mobility challenges and provide compelling experiences for passengers, whilst enabling new business opportunities for public transport operators and suppliers of vehicles, platforms and infrastructure. The paper first examines the panorama of applications across the transport sector and their socio-economic benefits, presenting key industry stakeholders and investment. The second part of the article focuses specifically on the main public transportation applications by vehicle type – bus, tram, shuttle, Autonomous People Mover, and robotaxi – and associated use cases for passengers and operators.

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The future landscape of Intelligent Transport Systems will rely heavily on data from edge devices for systems and people to make informed decisions. Huge volumes of data are collected, but not always efficiently used. There will be many benefits of already computed inform...Lead moreThe future landscape of Intelligent Transport Systems will rely heavily on data from edge devices for systems and people to make informed decisions. Huge volumes of data are collected, but not always efficiently used. There will be many benefits of already computed information from edge devices. The VDX is a sensor that combines vehicle classification and tracking with dual lane license plate recognition of both front and rear vehicle license plates, all in one unit. So far the sensor has been used in tolling installations with low installation footprints. With advanced tracking and classification in complex traffic situations, many diversified tolling use cases could be added but also areas outside of tolling such as traffic management and road safety enforcement. This paper will explore how a technology based on stereo video and deep learning algorithms can play an important part in the future ITS industry.

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Positive benefits of MaaS for travellers have been widely discussed. Transport operators and authorities benefit, if travellers are happy, too. Nevertheless, there are more direct impacts. The Passenger App linking operators and passengers plays a central role driving a r...Lead morePositive benefits of MaaS for travellers have been widely discussed. Transport operators and authorities benefit, if travellers are happy, too. Nevertheless, there are more direct impacts. The Passenger App linking operators and passengers plays a central role driving a relationship that benefits both sides. The App is the most effective and cost-efficient sales and information channel: Each activity made via App is a source of information for transit operators. This enables to better understand the individual customer and allows for segmentation, more personalized services and targeted communication. Statistics on cumulated numbers show patterns of travellers’ needs and behaviour, allowing forecasts into the future. The offer can be matched with mobility demand – and potential gaps can trigger a change of operations and services provided, such as bus bridging services or demand responsive transport. Comprehensive fleet management then enables for efficient operations across modes - feeding back into the App for real-time information to the passengers.

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Hybrid electric vehicles are characterized by enhanced fuel efficiency and allow substantial fuel economy improvement compared to conventional gasoline cars. However, people are generally not aware of this huge potential and of the great impact of their driving style on t...Lead moreHybrid electric vehicles are characterized by enhanced fuel efficiency and allow substantial fuel economy improvement compared to conventional gasoline cars. However, people are generally not aware of this huge potential and of the great impact of their driving style on the effective fuel consumption of their car. In this paper, we present an eco-driving tool which provides an optimal way to drive a hybrid car through progressive coaching and specific advices addressing hybrid technology misconceptions. The readiness and high acceptance level of our personalized solution are demonstrated, as well as the potential and effective fuel reductions that can be reached by adopting it.

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Autonomous vehicles represent an exceptional opportunity to change urban mobility as long as it is integrated to the public transport network, shared and seamless. This proposal takes a closer look into concepts, namely Cloverfield and Firework, that caters for the trunk ...Lead moreAutonomous vehicles represent an exceptional opportunity to change urban mobility as long as it is integrated to the public transport network, shared and seamless. This proposal takes a closer look into concepts, namely Cloverfield and Firework, that caters for the trunk lines and the first and last mile to enable an autonomous seamless shared transport system. The aim is to offer a scalable multimodal solution built on a common platform which is practical, seamless to transit between different modes, and inclusive. The infrastructure shall be designed to be flexible, adaptable to changing needs, and allow a rather fast time-to-market, which also means a transition period to bridge AV technology cycles in line with safety and security standards as well as with the mindset and zeitgeist of society. The concept also optimizes the balance between supply and demand to maximize utilization of the AV system at any time.

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Councils are faced with huge pressures on developing new housing and employment areas, as well as keeping traffic congestion to reasonable levels. Usually this is done with traditional modelling and planning tools that require expert skillsets, take a significant amount o...Lead moreCouncils are faced with huge pressures on developing new housing and employment areas, as well as keeping traffic congestion to reasonable levels. Usually this is done with traditional modelling and planning tools that require expert skillsets, take a significant amount of time to provide results, and are rather expensive. Moreover, this planning is done at council or county level, but never at wider area scale, thus ignoring the effect that one development can have on a neighbouring county. In this paper we present how Immense’s simulation platform can be used to assess proposals for new developments, mobility services and infrastructure changes in large areas. The platform combines Artificial Intelligence techniques and agent-based simulation to provide evidence of critical benefits arising from simulated proposed schemes. The platform has been tested in the England’s Economic Heartland area, comprised of a dozen councils.

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Cooperative and automated driving vehicles bring more complexity to the traditional development, test and validation procedures based on the V-Model where the vehicle is considered a complete system. Vehicle communication capabilities and its interaction with other road u...Lead moreCooperative and automated driving vehicles bring more complexity to the traditional development, test and validation procedures based on the V-Model where the vehicle is considered a complete system. Vehicle communication capabilities and its interaction with other road users introduce new requirements which need to be taken into account from the design stages. This paper presents the Connected Vehicle Lab at IDIADA, a comprehensive environment for the design and validation of connected and automated driving technologies. Built on top of the state-of-the-art proving grounds, a C-ITS network built upon ETSI ITS G5 compliant roadside units and a dedicated cellular network deployed with the latest technologies where the parameterization can be customized on demand, allows the recreation of any real-life driving situation in a fully controlled scenario, while ensuring all the safety, security and confidentiality requirements are met. This facility is meant to support the automotive stakeholders through the whole vehicle development cycle.

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Passenger throughput at gated and ungated stations is a growing problem in three regards; capacity management, revenue analytics and passenger experience. By utilizing top-down, 3D stereo vision sensors, innovatively integrated with existing ticket validation infrastructu...Lead morePassenger throughput at gated and ungated stations is a growing problem in three regards; capacity management, revenue analytics and passenger experience. By utilizing top-down, 3D stereo vision sensors, innovatively integrated with existing ticket validation infrastructure such as tap on/off systems, the system has the ability to anonymously track passengers within a railway environment, know their validity status and be able to provide feedback to that individual based on that status. Personalized yet anonymous feedback is achieved using a fusion of visual and acoustic cues. The same system can be integrated with paddled gates and can be triggered based on the validity. The system is scalable as the sensors can be stitched together for an increased field-of-view. This paper reports how the proposed solution targets the aforementioned areas of congestion, revenue and passenger experience.

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The paper describes the strategy of the city of Berlin to promote the local development of digitized and sustainable traffic both in terms of putting new solutions into visible practice and strengthening its economy. The region combines all the key systems of future mobil...Lead moreThe paper describes the strategy of the city of Berlin to promote the local development of digitized and sustainable traffic both in terms of putting new solutions into visible practice and strengthening its economy. The region combines all the key systems of future mobility – vehicles, transport, and energy – into a single approach which is supported by one agency (Berlin Agency for Electromobility). That enables Berlin to build a veritable open-air laboratory for future mobility, where practical applications are tested and concurrently adapted towards sustainable business cases. On the long run these innovative mobility solutions will be part of a bigger picture – the Smart City Berlin.

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The Triplesign prismatic VMS is reliable, based on low investment technology, has limited maintenance and consumes almost no power. The power consumption has due to a break-through been reduced even further. In the most effective system is the average power consumption fo...Lead moreThe Triplesign prismatic VMS is reliable, based on low investment technology, has limited maintenance and consumes almost no power. The power consumption has due to a break-through been reduced even further. In the most effective system is the average power consumption for a Triplesign VMS 1.5W. The sign can be operated 24/7 with a battery of 20-70Ah and a solar panel of 20-60W. As no external power supply is needed the carbon footprint is minimized. The installation time, and installation costs and the carbon footprint are also reduced as no heavy machinery as excavators is needed for the cable forwarding to the VMS. Triplesign prismatic VMS does not only support the driver with important traffic information for traffic safety and more efficient traffic it is also executing this services cost-effective and environmentally friendly and in that sense in all matters taking part of the development of the sustainable city of the future.

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As the world prepares for the era of autonomous vehicles, we must recognize that it will take more than savvy innovators and advanced technologies to prepare our cities and the mentality of a society that has lived in driver-mode since Karl Benz put the first automobile o...Lead moreAs the world prepares for the era of autonomous vehicles, we must recognize that it will take more than savvy innovators and advanced technologies to prepare our cities and the mentality of a society that has lived in driver-mode since Karl Benz put the first automobile on the road in the late 1800s. Significant advances have been made to ensure autonomous vehicle safety, but it will require more than applied science, it will take a new and adapted mindset as well as an apt ecosystem in which autonomous vehicles can operate and achieve their full potential.

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From the beginning of 2013 Tallinn became first national capital providing free ride for its residents. After convincing success of Tallinn in July 2018 most Estonian counties, 11 out of total 15, opted to join national scheme of free ride for all in regional public bus n...Lead moreFrom the beginning of 2013 Tallinn became first national capital providing free ride for its residents. After convincing success of Tallinn in July 2018 most Estonian counties, 11 out of total 15, opted to join national scheme of free ride for all in regional public bus network. Estonian model have already triggered in 2018 free public transport debates in Paris and Berlin. New government of Luxembourg, which took office in the fall of 2018, is committed to provide free ride for all in all modes of public transport in entire Grand Duchy already from summer 2019. Addressing simultaneously modern social, economic and environmental challenges, free public transport appeals policymakers universally regardless of their political affiliation or geographical location.

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All cities are facing new challenges of a rapid growth in traffic and travel along with the resulting congestion. Traditional use of UTC and SCOOT to manage the road networks has been hugely successful for many years, but now is the right time to move these systems forwar...Lead moreAll cities are facing new challenges of a rapid growth in traffic and travel along with the resulting congestion. Traditional use of UTC and SCOOT to manage the road networks has been hugely successful for many years, but now is the right time to move these systems forward into the digital age; London has contracted with Siemens to develop RTO (the Real Time Optimiser) that will deliver a new era of control for cities around the world.

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The aim of the paper is to show how public authorities can open the local mobility market to new transport operators and facilitate market entry by providing a technical infrastructure. Fluidtime has developed a mobility platform suitable for a Level 4 MaaS ecosystem in w...Lead moreThe aim of the paper is to show how public authorities can open the local mobility market to new transport operators and facilitate market entry by providing a technical infrastructure. Fluidtime has developed a mobility platform suitable for a Level 4 MaaS ecosystem in which public authorities of urban cities and regions can become a regulatory service provider. They can focus on their urban goals by gaining access to mobility analysis data while providing standardized and regulated market entry to private transport services. The mobility market will benefit from new competitors and new customer segments. These preventive measures by cities will enable the public to optimally distribute resources and passenger shafts between private and public transport.

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This paper presents the product flx, a flexible mobility platform developed by GoMetro SA. The core of the flx platform is to enable various users to manage the setup of a trip, measure the planned demand, model through matching supply to demand, and execute and track a t...Lead moreThis paper presents the product flx, a flexible mobility platform developed by GoMetro SA. The core of the flx platform is to enable various users to manage the setup of a trip, measure the planned demand, model through matching supply to demand, and execute and track a trip. The flx Ride application enables the rider to e-hail a vehicle with the ability to schedule their week’s journeys and the driver to respond to demand with drive schedules and for optimal earnings in the flx Drive application. Fleet managers can manage and monitor operations transparently in the flx Fleet tool. Corporate companies can be granted access to the flx Enterprise tool to export data and reports. The application flx City enables field staff to collect on-board vehicle mapping data and execute vehicle inspections in which the data can be exported by city planners and regulators in the flx City tool.

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In the future, cities will need to manage the entire mobility operating system in an integrated way, making best use of all traffic modes. Hereby, many cities discovered the bicycle as an indispensable element of their mobility landscape. Cycling4Trees is a new routing ap...Lead moreIn the future, cities will need to manage the entire mobility operating system in an integrated way, making best use of all traffic modes. Hereby, many cities discovered the bicycle as an indispensable element of their mobility landscape. Cycling4Trees is a new routing app for cyclists, with gamification elements. The app addresses major cities’ needs: motivation to shift from car to bicycle, cycling safety and the collection of data to improve infrastructure planning. The system has been implemented and tested as a competition between Munich and Berlin. It showed an excellent user acceptance and very positive impacts on modal shift. In combination with related ITS technologies such as cycling counting stations and environmental traffic management, the App will contribute to protect climate and reduce emissions.

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Urban Mobility is rapidly changing. New mobility services are expanding quickly, putting pressure on traditional public transit. Cities are challenged to embrace mobility innovations, but also ensure that these novel mobility services serve the overarching public mobility...Lead moreUrban Mobility is rapidly changing. New mobility services are expanding quickly, putting pressure on traditional public transit. Cities are challenged to embrace mobility innovations, but also ensure that these novel mobility services serve the overarching public mobility strategy. In the advent of autonomous driving, taking an active role becomes ever more important for cities. Digitalization enables cities to strengthen their position of mobility orchestrator by building an integrated urban mobility ecosystem and flexibilizing traditional public transit via the means of demand-responsive transit. This paper discusses the key ingredients to a successful implementation of a city-operated on-demand MaaS landscape.

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Providing advice and warnings to drivers via roadside variable message signs (VMS) has been a long established facility on motorways and major roads. However deploying VMS’ is expensive and time consuming, so often their deployment is limited to key locations on strategic...Lead moreProviding advice and warnings to drivers via roadside variable message signs (VMS) has been a long established facility on motorways and major roads. However deploying VMS’ is expensive and time consuming, so often their deployment is limited to key locations on strategic roads. Cubic Transportation Systems and Transport Scotland have been developing and trialling a practical system that can deliver similar guidance directly into the vehicle using existing communications equipment and existing equipment deployed now in production vehicles. This would allow traffic managers and transport operators to communicate directly into the vehicle, providing guidance to drivers about potential hazards as they travel the road network, without the need for expensive roadside infrastructure.

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FiscalAdmin has been developing a public transport Mobility Management Ecosystem designed to provide easy access to: (1) on-demand public transportation in rural areas (the test phase only covers select disadvantaged segments like children, disabled, elderly, unemployed j...Lead moreFiscalAdmin has been developing a public transport Mobility Management Ecosystem designed to provide easy access to: (1) on-demand public transportation in rural areas (the test phase only covers select disadvantaged segments like children, disabled, elderly, unemployed job seekers); and (2) autonomous public transport in urban areas. As an ecosystem, it includes a secure personalised intermediation platform where demand and supply side elements are pooled, public transportation routes are optimised by algorithms, and can be plugged into public sector. The innovative elements in the system are: (1) seamless ticket-free and cashless (2) on-demand public transportation linked to (3) a nation-wide universal personal citizen’s account. The technical development of the platform is at near-market stage and will be available for presentation at the ITS World Congress in Singapore in October 2019.

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Congestion is plaguing modern cities every day and with the number of vehicles projected to nearly double by 2040, the problem will only increase. The necessity to share road resources between various transportation modes (pedestrians, cyclists, public transit, cars) at i...Lead moreCongestion is plaguing modern cities every day and with the number of vehicles projected to nearly double by 2040, the problem will only increase. The necessity to share road resources between various transportation modes (pedestrians, cyclists, public transit, cars) at intersections is a particularly strong contributing factor for congestion. Existing solutions adapt signalized intersections to changing traffic patterns based on pre-defined rule sets. These approaches suffer from an inability to anticipate and handle the large space of traffic patterns in an exhaustive way. To solve this problem, we introduce an approach employing an artificial intelligence capable of learning to adapt autonomously to changing traffic conditions from short-term to long-term tendencies in real-world applications. We use reinforcement learning on simulated and real intersections to explore the solution space and allow the artificial intelligence to generalize and react adequately to new and previously unseen scenarios. This flexibility allows our technique to reduce waiting times by up to 47% in simulations. The presented system is currently being tested on four intersections in a German city of approximately 200,000 inhabitants.

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The rise of bike sharing services is resulting in a growth of cyclists in road networks worldwide. It has also given rise to a higher level of frustration and danger with road vehicles trying to navigate around more cyclists. How can cities continue encouraging the adopti...Lead moreThe rise of bike sharing services is resulting in a growth of cyclists in road networks worldwide. It has also given rise to a higher level of frustration and danger with road vehicles trying to navigate around more cyclists. How can cities continue encouraging the adoption of cycling while ensuring safety without breaking the bank? This paper discusses an alternative to cyclist-only prioritization through the adoption of a novel, smartphone-based system called Sitraffic SiBike, that combines traffic management, virtual detection and green waves for cyclists without the need for additional roadside infrastructure. This paper also discusses the objectives, system architecture and outcomes from two field trials in Fremont, California, United States and another in Marburg, Germany.

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Shared vehicle fleets are becoming an integral part of the mobility ecosystem in smart cities. Especially E-bike sharing systems are increasing in popularity. Due to the flexibility, ease of renting, and extended reach through the e-motor, e-bikes are used for round trips...Lead moreShared vehicle fleets are becoming an integral part of the mobility ecosystem in smart cities. Especially E-bike sharing systems are increasing in popularity. Due to the flexibility, ease of renting, and extended reach through the e-motor, e-bikes are used for round trips within the city, utilized for last-mile transportation, and even replace traditional means of transport. However, such a system can only become a viable and established transportation mode when it is reliable and highly available. The AI-driven application described in this paper is specifically designed to aid the operator of the system in decision making, with the aim to consistently maximize the reliability and availability of the system utilizing minimal resources and costs. The main aspects of the presented solution are the predictions of the future demand (with an average accuracy of 0.73 bikes), recommendations on optimal rebalancing, as well as the user experience and scalable cloud-based architecture.

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The rise of private mobility providers such as Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) has impacted urban transit agencies as travelers often use ridehailing services in place of public transit, lowering ridership and clogging streets. Traffic analyst Bruce Schaller1 foun...Lead moreThe rise of private mobility providers such as Transportation Network Companies (TNCs) has impacted urban transit agencies as travelers often use ridehailing services in place of public transit, lowering ridership and clogging streets. Traffic analyst Bruce Schaller1 found that in the United States “About 60 percent of TNC users in large, dense cities would have taken public transportation, walked, biked or not made the trip if TNCs had not been available for the trip,” while adding some 5.7 billion miles of driving annually. This scene has been repeated in other cities around the world. This paper outlines 7 steps operators can take to “take back the streets” with mobility services that reverse this trend and provides real-world examples of how this can be done. Most importantly, the paper will demonstrate how services can be tested and simulated in advance to ensure they meet operator and passenger requirements.

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We developed the concept and proved that various traffic states can be estimated by the combination logics of on board unit, or OBU, based image processing and cloud-based estimation. Our image processing LSI, called VISCONTITM , is the key to realize this architecture. S...Lead moreWe developed the concept and proved that various traffic states can be estimated by the combination logics of on board unit, or OBU, based image processing and cloud-based estimation. Our image processing LSI, called VISCONTITM , is the key to realize this architecture. Several pattern recognition tasks can be performed on this LSI concurrently with lower power dissipation. Only the detection results are sent to the cloud system so that the system has light bandwidth to the communication channels. After defining two use cases, which are to estimate vehicle queue lengths waiting at red signal at intersections and to estimate pedestrian cloud volume waiting at tram stops, image processing and estimation logics are developed using recorded images captured previously by the system. After conducting Proof of Concept with yarra trams under AIMES Project, or Australian Integrated Multimodal Eco Systems Project, led by University of Melbourne, we conclude that this combination approach is very effective to sense traffic states.

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Great advances have been made for the deep networks, but relatively high memory and computation requirements limit their applications in the embedded device. In this paper, we introduce a class of efficient network architecture named ThinNet mainly for object detection ap...Lead moreGreat advances have been made for the deep networks, but relatively high memory and computation requirements limit their applications in the embedded device. In this paper, we introduce a class of efficient network architecture named ThinNet mainly for object detection applications on memory and computation limited platforms. The new architecture is based on two proposed modules: Front module and Tinier module. The Front module reduce the information loss from raw input images by utilizing more convolution layers with small size filters. The Tinier module use pointwise convolution layers before conventional convolution layer to decrease model size and computation, while ensuring the detection accuracy. Experimental evaluations on ImageNet classification and PASCAL VOC object detection datasets demonstrate the superior performance of ThinNet over other popular models. Our pretrained classification model (ThinNet_C) attains the same top-1 and top-5 performance as the classic AlexNet but only with 1/50th the parameters. The detection model also obtains significant improvements over other detection methods, while requiring smaller model size to achieve high performance.

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In order to introduce Automated Driving systems into the market, socially acceptable and technically sound safety assurance methodologies need to be agreed. In Japan, vehicle manufacturers and traffic safety experts have gathered regularly under the auspice of the SAKURA ...Lead moreIn order to introduce Automated Driving systems into the market, socially acceptable and technically sound safety assurance methodologies need to be agreed. In Japan, vehicle manufacturers and traffic safety experts have gathered regularly under the auspice of the SAKURA project (Safery Assurance KUdos for Reliable Autonomous vehicles), in a coordinated initiative to harmonize the required collaborative research, methodology development and standardization activities. Within this initiative, a comprehensive safety assurance process is to be agreed and made publicly available. The process shall consider the systems’ performance limitations and must be supported by state-of-the-art methodologies and real-world data. At this point, consensus on the safety assurance process for SAE Level 3+ automation in motorway environments has been achieved and the results are hereby outlined. The process can be used as a guidance to continue developing the systems and related standards towards a safer Automated Driving society

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The traditional transportation landscape is undergoing unprecedented change due to digitalisation, improvements in connectivity and the rise of new vehicle technologies. Today’s systems can collect, transfer and process much data than before. These data, combined with big...Lead moreThe traditional transportation landscape is undergoing unprecedented change due to digitalisation, improvements in connectivity and the rise of new vehicle technologies. Today’s systems can collect, transfer and process much data than before. These data, combined with big data processing, real-time data analytics and traditional transportation simulation can be used to create entirely new traffic management plans that not only include historical data but can also consider real-time and predicted data. The rise of connected systems allows these plans to be communicated to the drivers, and soon, to the vehicles, to allow for traffic management modes that integrate the driver’s decision and choices for interactive and active traffic management. The presence of on-board routing and path planning systems will allow rapid rerouting and compliance to such plans, allowing the road authorities to better utilise the available network capacity when mitigating traffic incidents. In this paper, we look at such a traffic management platform and discuss the key issues and challenges in building and rolling out such a system. We look at the key components of a system that needs to integrate many disparate system. The paper also touches on the need for new standards for such a system to be effective.

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Liveability and accessibly: key outcomes we seek in our burgeoning cities globally. The Commonwealth of Australian 2016 Smart Cities Plan1 notes: Cities need to be “… liveable with a clear focus on serving their citizens”. WSP and others globally have tried to understand ...Lead moreLiveability and accessibly: key outcomes we seek in our burgeoning cities globally. The Commonwealth of Australian 2016 Smart Cities Plan1 notes: Cities need to be “… liveable with a clear focus on serving their citizens”. WSP and others globally have tried to understand and quantify the measurable qualities which will produce these outcomes, helping us to understand the outcomes we seek. WSP have partnered to lead significant innovation projects like the Australian Integrated Multimodal Ecosystem (AIMES), highlighting the key need: how can we document these issues help many different parties to understand the interrelationships and options available to planners and engineers? Through this paper the author outlines a need for a more cohesive narrative which can operate at a political level but also be grounded with a deep understanding of causal relationships, resulting in better planning and infrastructure decisions for Australian Cities bridging the gap from policy to implementation.

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We proposed an innovative and sustainable ITS policy and strategy planning to improve transportation systems in Taiwan. There are nine thinking models and one coordinated architecture for ITS deployment. It seems very important to consider total mobility and business mode...Lead moreWe proposed an innovative and sustainable ITS policy and strategy planning to improve transportation systems in Taiwan. There are nine thinking models and one coordinated architecture for ITS deployment. It seems very important to consider total mobility and business model for sustainable ITS systems.

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A key component of Singapore’s congestion pricing legacy, the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system took over the Area Licencing Scheme (ALS) since 1998, continuing to effectively manage travel demand. It has superior flexibility and coverage through the deployment of stat...Lead moreA key component of Singapore’s congestion pricing legacy, the Electronic Road Pricing (ERP) system took over the Area Licencing Scheme (ALS) since 1998, continuing to effectively manage travel demand. It has superior flexibility and coverage through the deployment of state of the art overhead gantries retrofitted with Digital Short Range Communications (DSRC). Nonetheless, over the 20 years of operations, Singapore’s congestion pricing has evolved tremendously in terms of coverage, operational hours and cordon boundaries. Whilst the pricing principles remains consistent, the Land Transport Authority has made on-going efforts to review and adjust the system and its pricing structure to keep in pace with the changing and prevailing needs of its road users. This paper looks at how ERP has evolved from the 33 gantries during transition from ALS, to the current 78 gantries, delving into the key pricing adjustments along various specific corridors and cordons, the rationale behind the reviews and the resulting outcomes. It will also demonstrate the fastidiousness of the Authority in studying engineering and societal impacts of their road pricing reviews, through the timely collection of ITS data, and their efforts towards keeping the system relevant and effective.

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Cellular signalling data is an ideal tool to analyse the activity characteristics of tourists in the city, especially compared to the traditional travel survey data. However, in case of privacy leaks, the registration location of mobile subscribers is excluded from the ce...Lead moreCellular signalling data is an ideal tool to analyse the activity characteristics of tourists in the city, especially compared to the traditional travel survey data. However, in case of privacy leaks, the registration location of mobile subscribers is excluded from the cellular signalling data provided by the mobile carrier. To accurately identify tourists among millions of mobile subscribers, a methodology of tourist identification is proposed to identify tourists using unlabelled cellular signalling data and POI data. Firstly, classification was utilized to distinguish residents and visitors based on data features and artificial criterion. Then, DBSCAN was introduced to pick tourists from visitors based on three types of raster interest scores. Finally, the proposed methodology was demonstrated in the case study of Shanghai. As a result, 6.64% of the mobile subscribers were identified as tourists. Moreover, the spatio-temporal activity patterns of identified tourists were subsequently analysed to prove the feasibility of the proposed method. The methodology proposed in this paper benefited understanding of tourist activities beyond traditional survey data and helped provide valuable references for the city management.

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Transportation for school is a special and important issue for society, as it refers to a very sensitive age group. Therefore, the appropriate design and the provision of maximum safety are necessary actions need to be taken into account while organizing such a system. Ta...Lead moreTransportation for school is a special and important issue for society, as it refers to a very sensitive age group. Therefore, the appropriate design and the provision of maximum safety are necessary actions need to be taken into account while organizing such a system. Tabanan Regency which is located in west Bali applying new concept travel demand management for student that called Trans Serasi which is utilizes existing urban and rural public transport as a "backbone" of student travel for schooling. It means, these public transport transform became student transportation form (school buses) for a while depend on departure and arrival time for schooling; where the route deviates from existing route to the travel path of students for schooling at the time of departure and return to school. As the results, surprisingly Trans Serasi make a great contribution for sustainable development. The advantages of Trans Serasi are reducing number of accident especially those involving junior high school up to 56%, reducing air pollution 93%, no need for large investments since utilizes existing public transport, reduce fuel consumption almost 90%. Trans Serasi is innovating concept for traffic solution.

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Overloaded vehicles contribute to premature deterioration of the road infrastructure and leads to more frequent road maintenance and incurs higher maintenance costs. They are also more susceptible to various mechanical failures, resulting in vehicle breakdowns and disrupt...Lead moreOverloaded vehicles contribute to premature deterioration of the road infrastructure and leads to more frequent road maintenance and incurs higher maintenance costs. They are also more susceptible to various mechanical failures, resulting in vehicle breakdowns and disrupting the traffic flow. Most importantly, overloaded vehicles are a serious road safety hazard to the other road users. Weigh-in-motion (WIM) technologies are widely used in other countries for screening overloaded vehicles, and directing the potential offending vehicles for further verification at static weighbridges. Considering the increasingly heavy traffic volume and manpower constraints in enhancing road safety, it becomes necessary to implement an efficient and automated weight detection system to detect overweight heavy vehicles with good accuracy while on the move without impacting the flow of traffic. This paper provides insight into the technical design and working principles of an integrated WIM system used in a 6-month pilot trial conducted by the Land Transport Authority of Singapore (LTA).

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The ITCS data communication system in Indonesia currently in several large cities such as Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang, Bekasi, is carried out with fiber optic technology. ITCS other cities like Yogyakarta use wireless technology. Fiber optic installation in the application ...Lead moreThe ITCS data communication system in Indonesia currently in several large cities such as Jakarta, Bogor, Tangerang, Bekasi, is carried out with fiber optic technology. ITCS other cities like Yogyakarta use wireless technology. Fiber optic installation in the application of ITCS will require very large costs and very expensive maintenance costs, besides having to be installed sequentially and the control is only limited to certain areas. While the use of wireless in terms of costs is indeed cheaper but is vulnerable to interference from interventions at frequencies, the security system is weak, weather disturbances and coverage are also limited. The ITCS data communication system using "M2M" will answer all weaknesses and shortcomings that exist in fiber optic and wireless. Traffic control can be carried out in a very wide range, not limited to space and time, at a lower cost. Keyword : ITCS, M2M, data communication system

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The urge to solve transport modelling with 5G is demanding. In 2020 the world is going to receive this technology, whereas Indonesia has agreed to accept in 2022. Unfortunately, 2018 Indonesia has just begun for using the mobile phone data as the Origin-Destination calcul...Lead moreThe urge to solve transport modelling with 5G is demanding. In 2020 the world is going to receive this technology, whereas Indonesia has agreed to accept in 2022. Unfortunately, 2018 Indonesia has just begun for using the mobile phone data as the Origin-Destination calculation. If this delay is not anticipated from now, it will make the threat of the nation. 5G promises to be a critical foundation of the further rise of the Internet of Things (IoT), not only because of the increased speed but also from better responsiveness by reducing latency in big data for smart cities. In this research also discussed the current condition in Indonesia, the potential market, the development of smart cities, and the overview how real-time mobile data support transport modelling.

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Enclosed communities affect the layout of the road network and can cause traffic congestion. This paper aims to analyze the influence of community opening on surrounding road capacity. We first develop an evaluation system to comprehensively analyze road capacity from the...Lead moreEnclosed communities affect the layout of the road network and can cause traffic congestion. This paper aims to analyze the influence of community opening on surrounding road capacity. We first develop an evaluation system to comprehensively analyze road capacity from the perspective of traffic efficiency and road network reliability, and then select evaluation indices. We establish data envelopment analysis model to quantify the traffic efficiency and road network reliability model to evaluate the reliability of surrounding roads, and obtain the data of each index before and after the opening of the community. A Shanghai community is analyzed as a specific case to reflect the influence. Finally, we divide the community into five categories according to the road structure and quantify the impact to show that community opening can improve road capacity although vary from community types and opening levels.

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Institutional review is essential to support the rapidly developing automated driving technologies, especially to implement new services relation to automated driving. Also in Korea, institutional movements of government agencies have been taking place, for example, by es...Lead moreInstitutional review is essential to support the rapidly developing automated driving technologies, especially to implement new services relation to automated driving. Also in Korea, institutional movements of government agencies have been taking place, for example, by establishing and publishing a pre-emptive regulatory roadmap in the field of autonomous vehicles. However, the improvement of the system requires physical time, and the process of conducting a pilot project for the development of the technology requires preparation in various ways to accommodate the current point-in-time system. This study examines the methodology of institutional analysis for implementing new services. First, the regulations related to the application of automobiles, roads, safety or new technologies were reviewed. The application of each Usecase presented in the task is divided into users, operators, etc. and each data flow is reviewed. Finally, the relevant institution that may be applied with the flow of data were considered.

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The past was dominated by manually operated toll plazas, synonymous with cumbersome outposts where vehicles had to stop to make a time-consuming toll transaction, leading to waiting times in queues of several hours. Today we see a trend to move to electronic toll collecti...Lead moreThe past was dominated by manually operated toll plazas, synonymous with cumbersome outposts where vehicles had to stop to make a time-consuming toll transaction, leading to waiting times in queues of several hours. Today we see a trend to move to electronic toll collection (ETC) and multi-lane free flow (MLFF) tolling, where road users pay electronically, without stopping, while payment is processed automatically, without affecting traffic flow. This makes overall operations significantly more efficient and brings a host of benefits such as improved road safety and reduced emissions. This paper explores key aspects of the modernisation of plaza systems, their upgrade to electronic toll payment and the migration to MLFF toll collection. These are complex exercises in multi-dimensional change management – encompassing the technical, commercial, organisational, legal and institutional transition in a stepwise coordinated manner – best undertaken by suppliers with extensive experience in deploying and operating both Plaza and MLFF systems.