Transportation considerations
Emerging transportation technologies
Emerging transportation trends and technologies are resulting in new safe, efficient, reliable, equitable, sustainable, and accessible mobility options.
To achieve the benefits of these technologies, it is important to break down barriers to access and align technology-based strategies with specific needs and identified outcomes.
The following steps have been demonstrated to guide the identification, development, and deployment of emerging transportation trends:
- Define mobility needs and objectives.
- Outline the policies, infrastructure, systems, staffing, maintenance, operations, and timelines necessary to deploy and operate technology improvements.
- Assess and refine technology-based mobility strategies based on defined objectives, adjust strategies if necessary to achieve outcomes.
- Identify technology-based mobility strategies that address needs and achieve objectives.
Current trends in transportation technologies:
- Automated vehicles
- Electric/alternative fuel vehicles
- Drones for deliveries
- Curbside management
- Mobility as a service
- Artificial intelligence to optimize efficiency and safety
- Urban air mobility
Transportation safety
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What is a safe system approach?
The U.S. Department of Transportation adopts a Safe System Approach as the guiding paradigm to address roadway safety. The transportation community has embraced the Safe System Approach as an effective way to address and manage the risks that are part of our enormous and complex transportation system. It works by building and reinforcing multiple layers of protection to both prevent crashes from happening in the first place and minimize the harm caused to those involved when crashes do occur. It is a holistic and comprehensive approach that provides a guiding framework to make places safer for people.
This is a shift from a conventional safety approach because it focuses on both human mistakes AND human vulnerability and designs a system with many redundancies in place to protect everyone.
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