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Real-Time Travel Information in Turn-by-Turn Navigation: Past Present & Future Alain L. Kornhauser Professor, Operations Research & Financial Engineering Director, Program in Transportation Founder, ALK Technologies, Inc. and Founding and Board Member Committee for Smart New Jersey
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Real-Time Travel Information in Turn-by-Turn Navigation: Past Present & Future Alain L. KornhauserProfessor, Operations Research & Financial EngineeringDirector, Program in TransportationFounder, ALK Technologies, Inc.and Founding and Board Member Committee for Smart New Jersey Presented at New Jersey’s TransAction Conference Atlantic City, New Jersey April 11, 2012
The Cure for the Common Driver … … CoPilot
1998: CoPilot 1998 TruckPCPresentation 1998 ITE Presentation
“Early” versions of Portable Sat/Navsolutions Week 9
& Finally… Convergence of GPS Decisions that Improve Quality of Life & Wireless & Processing Navigation Based Commerce nCommerce & Memory & Robust OS Real-Time Information (and Advertising) Week 9
Opportunities to Improve Quality of Life Market Segments (Consumers) Quality of Life • “17” year olds • Soccer Moms • Those that have never wanted to go anywhere • Dads who never ask for directions • Anxiety Relief • Feel Good • Safety, Security, Comfort
Consumer Real-time Data Apps: nCommerce (Navigation-based Commence) • CoPilot Live knows your… • Current Location • Destination • Route • Along the way • Points of Interest • Businesses • Traffic • Weather Local Search
Current Versions of CoPilot Live CoPilotLive Features
Mobile Professionals Opportunities to Improve Quality of Life Market Segments Quality of Life • “17” year olds • Soccer Moms • Those that have never wanted to go anywhere • Dads who never ask for directions • Anxiety Relief • Feel Good • Safety, Security, Comfort • Better Feed the Family • Solid Quantifiable ROI
For the Mobile Professional … • Recent implementations have resulted in: • 17% reduction in fleet mileage • 20% improvement in mobile workforce efficiency • 7% reduction in fleet size • Ability to deliver in one hour customer time windows
The Future for Real-time data will be… • The Advances in Autonomous Vehicle Control • Much of it fueled by the DARPA Grand Challenges ’04, ‘05, ’07 • Continued on by researchers, entrepreneurs and manufacturers • Lane departure warning and lane keeping • Frontal collision warning and avoidance • Many individual autonomous vehicle initiatives • Princeton: Prospect 12 … objective to pass NJ DMV driver’s test • Italians • Germans • VT, CMU, Stanford, … • Google • All with the objective of placing sufficient intelligence in a vehicle so that it can operate safely and efficiently on existing street mixed in with human operated vehicle
It is Clear… • We aren’t very good drivers • We prefer to • text, talk, drink, sleep, daydream, rather than drive • Driving is boring, an insult to our intelligence! • Once upon a time… • I shifted gears, controlled my cruise speed with my foot and closely planned my every turn • Hopefully… • I’ll no longer have to steer, brake, or pay attention. • Chances are: People will gladly pay for such service
If I don’t have to drive… • Why should I own??? • If I pay enough… • One will show up at my front door and properly deploy itself at my destination. • If demand is too high… • I can walk to a nearby autonomous taxi stand and contribute to ridesharing.
To serve New Jersey’s • ~30 million daily trips, I need… • NJ Transit rail and express bus operation to continue operation • ~10,000 off-street Autonomous Taxi locations • <1,000,000 autonomous vehicles • (3.71 registered automobiles in NJ (2009) • All operating on existing streets • that could continue to be used for goods movement, emergency management, bicyclists, walkers. • Thank You