Smart Transportation
It is a rare day that you won't take some form of
transportation
A bus, train or car to work. A bike to school. A plane for a
business trip. And even if you don't leave your home, your life is still
influenced by the transportation industry: virtually every tangible good—food,
clothing, medicine, vehicles, computers—has been transported into your world
from somewhere else.
Cities could not exist if we didn't have transportation
systems to move people and goods in, out and around them. It has been a leading
driver behind globalization: shrinking distances, seeding the emergence of
entire new economies and improving the quality of life for millions of people.
Yet many of our transportation systems are inadequate to
serve the needs of the 21st century. By integrating technology and intelligence
into the physical transportation infrastructure, we can improve capacity,
enhance the traveler experience and make our transportation systems more
efficient, safe, and secure.
"As many jobs as we have, if you're stuck in traffic
for two hours a day, it affects your ability to do business," "It
also affects your quality of life"
Jams are not only frustrating, they are also a major
contributor to air pollution, and that’s bad not just for our climate, but
everybody’s health and living too. According to researchers 138,258 people died
of road accidents in India in 2012. As
per the National Crime Records Bureau, as many as 461 people died and 1,301
more were injured every day in traffic accidents in the country during 2012.
This makes it 19 deaths every hour—or more than one death every three minutes.
Then there is the economic cost of lost hours (both work and
leisure) and delayed shipments. Drivers in the 10 most-congested cities in the country
sit around 42 hours in traffic jams every year,
wasting more than $121bn in time and fuel
while doing so.
Before building more roads, bridges, and highways,
policymakers need to evaluate how current transportation options can be used
more effectively
We should also take care of cost when making the
transportation smart so that the smart transportation does not go over smart
that can not be affordable by all the peoples.
Show carrot of facilities and low price to encourage people
using public transportation like buses an d trains can reduce the road traffic.
Smart public transportation:
Iot based network on stations and bus has some RFID system when
it enters, it registers itself to station so the tracking time schedule and
running status of Bus can be achieved.
Public transportation vehicles like buses and trains can
have cameras installed so can provide safety in security to travelers.
Smart Highway
A vehicle is given a RF tag and the highway has the RF
network. If speed is increased, the tag can produce warning sound or lighting.
If vehicle is stopped more than pre-defined time then respective Toll service
center will be informed for help. If some vehicle miss-behaves on highway then
traffic police can track it.
Solar panels on trafic light so they can be powered using
solar energy.To provide LCDs on road showing traffic information, Pollution
monitoring, weather information and diversion information. Those LCD device can
also be made operated from solar energy.
Street lights can be controlled based on traffic and timing
so we can save lot of energy.
Smart Vehicles
A safety pilot model deployment with about 3,000 vehicles
equipped with the technology that broadcasts their GPS location and speed every
100 milliseconds.
We can use sensors in cars when the other vehicle at front
side is too near then it can produce horn or slows down the speed
Solar Roadways
Idea of roads that can store solar energy? Well, it wasn’t
just a theory. Solar Roadways is an indiegogo project that wants
to install solar panels on glass roads, complete with LEDs and
microprocessors. Glass is renewable, environmentally friendly, and its strength
can be improved to be even stronger than steel
Despite being glass, the surface can be engineered for cars
to be able to stop safely even when traveling at speeds of up to 80
mph – like on regular roads. The solar panel roads can even melt snow
during winter and of course the solar energy harnessed can be used to
power electrical needs.
Smart Parking
If we talk about city the one of the most major problem is
the parking. We can make it smart by centrally connecting the parking
availability with server and displaying information outside the parking area.
The parking area itself shows that here is the space available, that can be
visible from outside of the parking area. We can have solar panel roofs on
Parking area.
