1. PATH Testbed Resources for Intelligent Transportation Systems Research
Karl Hedrick
Director, California PATH

2. Univ. of California, Berkeley College of Engr.
Inst. of Transportation Studies
California PATH
Other Universities
UC Davis, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC Riverside, Claremont Graduate Schools,
UC Santa Barbara, USC, Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo,
Texas A&M
UCB Engineering Dep’ts
• Civil
• Computer Science
• Electrical
• Industrial Engineering/
Operations Research
• Mechanical
Other Schools & Dep’ts at UCB
• Public Policy
• City & Regional Planning
• Economics
• Optometry

3. Intelligent Transportation Systems
ITS : Using modern computer, communications, sensor and control technologies to improve transportation system operations

4. PATH Research: Program Areas
Advanced Transportation Management and Information Systems (ATMIS)
Advanced Vehicle Control and Safety Systems (AVCSS)
R&D Labs and Testbeds Statewide (incl. Real-world Environments)
Center for Commercialization of ITS Technology at UC Berkeley

5. Intelligent Packaging/Linking with IT
FLEET OPS CENTER
TRANSPORTATION MGMT CENTER
SMART VEHICLES
• WITH THE INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES AVAILABLE, YOU CAN LINK THE BASIC ELEMENTS OF THE TRANSPORTATION SYSTEM - SYSTEM AND FLEET OPERATORS, VEHICLES AND USERS.
• AND YOU CAN PACKAGE THE VARIOUS ITS USER SERVICES - SUCH AS TRAFFIC AND FLEET MANAGEMENT WITH TRAVELER INFORMATION.
• THE RESULTS CAN BE…….. (NEXT SLIDE)
SMART TRAVELLER

6. today, tomorrow, and the day after
Improving mobility:
today, tomorrow, and the day after
Pravin Varaiya

7. Preface
The incorporation of IT at all levels of the transportation system can greatly enhance productivity
Examples from Los Angeles illustrate opportunities to improve freeway system management and assist travelers
Automation offers dramatic, long-term, opportunities
Exploiting these requires a strong partnership between state, industry, and academia

8. Improving performance today: the PeMS system
PeMS collects and stores data captured by loop detectors in the State’s freeways in a central database. PeMS also obtains and stores CHP-published incident data
The central database is currently located on the UC Berkeley campus, but it can be accessed from anywhere via the Internet
Data are sent from the TMCs to UC Berkeley over the Caltrans wide area network (WAN)

9. Improving performance tomorrow: Automated Highway Systems
Potential for doubling or tripling highway capacity per lane
Ancillary benefits follow in safety, driver comfort/convenience, and energy/emissions
Initial applications are likely to be on heavy vehicles (buses, trucks), but the BIG benefits come with light-duty vehicles
Automated cars can capture public imagination
We’re working on deployment staging scenarios

10. Infrastructure and Vehicles at PATH
Traffic Management Testbeds
Berkeley Highway Laboratory
U.C. Irvine ATMS Testbed
Vehicle Test Tracks
Richmond Field Station
Crows Landing
I-15 HOV Lanes, San Diego
Experimental Vehicles
Passenger cars
Heavy trucks
Transit buses

11. Berkeley Highway Laboratory
Instrumentation above I-80, Emeryville
Inductive Loop Data Collection
Continuous Video Feeds
Wireless Communications
Micro Traffic Flow Analysis

12. ATMS Testbed (U.C. Irvine)
Connected to Caltrans Orange County freeway operations center, cities of Anaheim and Irvine
Field testing of technology and software applications
Network simulation and control
Linked to Cal (IT)²

13. Richmond Field Station
400 m test track equipped with magnetic markers for low-speed tests
Laboratory/shop space with tools and lifts for equipping vehicles

14. Crows Landing Test Track
Testing on taxiway and runways of former Naval airfield south of Patterson, CA
2 km of magnets installed, high speed testing

15. I-15 HOV Lanes, San Diego
Available for testing only on evenings and weekends, when lanes are closed to public
12 km, two lanes equipped with magnetic markers, high-speed testing
Limited office and shop space at south end
Availability subject to Caltrans cooperation

16. Passenger Cars
Eight Buick LeSabres equipped for automated driving
One 2000 Ford Taurus instrumented for naturalistic driving data collection
Three 1989 Lincoln Town Cars for supporting experiments

17. Heavy Trucks (Class-8 “Big Rigs”)
One Freightliner already equipped and tested for automated driving
Three new Freightliner Century-Class trucks being equipped for Demo 2003

18. Other Test and Demo Vehicles
3 New Flyer transit buses to be equipped for automated driving for Demo 2003
3 Samtrans buses instrumented for forward collision warning testing
2 snowplows equipped for driver guidance assistance and one rotary snowblower being equipped for automated operation

19. CCIT Center for Commercialization of ITS Technologies

20. Center Focus
Bring the best minds together to do follow up R&D, testing and evaluation of ITS
Collaboration between Researchers, Industry Professionals and practitioners
Accelerate the commercial deployment of transportation products and services
Solve transportation problems using new products and services
Facilitate Traffic Data dissemination
Focus researcher and industry efforts to ITS

21. Moving Research to Deployment
Applied
Research
Prototype
Development
&
Preliminary
Testing
Real-world
System Testing
&
Refinement
(TESTBEDS)
DEPLOYMENT &
COMMERCIALIZATION
(CCIT)

22. CCIT Programs Traveler Information Vehicle Information and Control
Traffic Data Collection and dissemination
Vehicle Information and Control
In-vehicle information systems
Transportation Management Systems
Performance management
New System Concepts
In-vehicle technologies for transit & Carsharing,..