Opportunities, Challenges and Conversions
As we emerge from the pandemic and embrace the "new normal", urban transportation faces a number of new challenges and opportunities related to efficiency, economy, technology and changing travel behaviors.
As we adapt and upgrade our cities, one proven technological opportunity to reduce the costs of providing high capacity transit systems while also dramatically improving service quality can be considered. The coordination of existing, but underutilized, unattended metro train operations and the emerging prospect of self-driving trains offer the opportunity improve service while reducing operating costs.
The presentation on January 9th will cover the proliferation of unattended train systems around the world, the conversion of legacy systems to unattended operation and the emerging opportunity to apply self-driving car autonomous technology to the rapid transit environment.
I hope you can attend.
If not, CLICK HERE for a copy of the presentation.
102nd Annual Meeting of the Transportation Research Board
Committee on Rail Rolling Stock and Motive Power
Committee on Rail Rolling Stock and Motive Power
Monday, January 9, 2023, 15:45 – 17:30 ET
Capitol Room (M4) Marriott Marquis Hotel Washington DC
Capitol Room (M4) Marriott Marquis Hotel Washington DC
David O. Nelson, Senior Consultant,
Jacobs Engineering, 120 Saint James Street
Boston, Massachusetts 02110
Boston, Massachusetts 02110
david.nelson@jacobs.com +1 978 360 0449
