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COVER
CONNECTED
AND
AUTONOMOUS
VEHICLE
TECHNOLOGIES
"Technology and innovation will enhance our transportation
systems and urban environments for the future of connected
automated vehicles and smart cities."
- Rob Schebesch, Senior Vice President, Transportation, Stantec
Written by Farah Samouh, Master of Applied Science in Civil Engineering, Ryerson University
O
SPE strives to attract and deliver value to members at
all stages of their careers, including students, through
collaborative partnerships with other organizations, experts
and stakeholders to strengthen our influence and ensure our
data and messaging is sound.
With Mitacs1 funding, OSPE recently partnered with Ryerson
University's Laboratory of Innovations in Transportation
(LiTrans) to co-supervise a research project of a Masters student
in Civil Engineering. Along with another partner, the Canadian
Urban Transit Research and Innovation Consortium (CUTRIC),
the project investigated technologies in which engineers play a
significant role - Smart Mobility.
Two terms are often associated with smart mobility:
Autonomous vehicles and Connected vehicles. Autonomous
vehicles are equipped with a system that allows hardware and
software to take over the act of driving and reduce human
interactions. Connected vehicles are equipped with internet
access, and usually have a wireless local area network, allowing
them to communicate with other vehicles and infrastructure
depending on the level of connectivity. Connected vehicles can
share internet access, and hence data, with other devices both
inside as well as outside the vehicle.
Currently there has been an ongoing discussion on the effect
of autonomous vehicles s without connectivity, which is where
the term connected vehicles came into place. It is essential to
acknowledge the fact that autonomous vehicles alone without
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