Automated Transport in Urban Areas: Opportunities in the Netherlands

Automated transport could be one of the options to contribute to the development of sustainable mobility in urban areas. In order to realize sustainable mobility in urban areas transportation planners should invest in collective and space efficient transport. With this purpose in mind, this paper is about nonmechanical guided automated transport on the road with the ambition to participate in conventional traffic in the long term, with the so-called cybernetic transport systems (CTS). As well as a contribution to sustainable mobility, these systems should also contribute to the current transport system and have to answer transportation demands. Since municipalities feel the direct consequences of conventional transport, they also feel the negative impacts of this kind of transport. The effects of these impacts make a municipality one of the most important stakeholders for the problems related to traffic in urban areas. This paper elaborates on the possibilities of CTS to contribute to the current transport system and on the possibilities of municipalities to develop innovative and sustainable transport systems like CTS.

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• Authors:
  • Baggen, J H
  • Aben, E M L
• Conference:
  • Urban Transport XII. Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century
  • Location: Prague , Czech Republic
  • Date: 2006-7-12 to 2006-7-14
• Publication Date: 2006-7

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: References; Tables;
• Monograph Title: Urban Transport XII. Urban Transport and the Environment in the 21st Century

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated vehicle control; City planning; Mobility; Sustainable development; Traffic; Traffic congestion; Traffic delays; Traffic flow; Transportation planning; Transportation policy; Travel demand; Urban areas
• Identifier Terms: Cybernetic Transport Systems (CTS)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01037412
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 1845641795
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Nov 28 2006 11:31AM