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Rui Jiang

Professor. Tracy Jo Ingram

Civic Analytics and Urban Intelligence

Draft Plan

November 25, 2022

Introduction

· Current situation of New York City traffic.

· Laws, tolls, and penalties have been introduced repeatedly over the past few decades to address the issue.

· NYCDOT challenge dealing with traffic.

Problem Statement

· Identified Problems: Congestion.

· Description of problems: 1. Road and vehicle is not smart enough. 2. People's incessant need to get where they're going is a major contributor to the everyday congestion that plagues the world's highways and public transit systems and therefore, to the urban traffic problems.

Vision: Current traffic congestion

Window of opportunity & Problem Analysis

Assessment of Operations

· Introduce DOT and NYCDOT management: NYCDOT is mainly manage the current New York City Traffic.

· DOT is an innovative data-driven department that can keep and lead the world.

Assessment of Equity and Community Engagement

· NYCDOT races and bias

· Strategy of congestion and community equity assessment

Assessment of Data and Technology

· Lane robots were successfully applied to congestion in China: some sidebars of reversible lane introduction, data and outcome of lane robot in China

Vision

Pictures and video of China Lane Robot in use

Proposed Solution

· Lane robot is a machine-controlled guardrail, introduce this lane robot program to NYCDOT.

· The Lane robot employs technological means to oversee lanes that can be shifted around to accommodate conditions such as a rush hour.

Advantages of Lane Robot

· Using the lane robot technology, one of the primary concerns about bus and car lanes that has faced criticism in the past resulting to an effective solution where lanes are adjusted based on real-time data to promote efficient traffic management.

· When bus speeds are increased after using robot lanes to adjust traffic movement translate to passengers saving time on their daily commutes resulting to a positive impact to the economy of New York City. The innovation has been adopted in some cities of China and New York deserves to adopt it and enjoy its benefits.

· Using a combination of artificial intelligence (AI) and mobile sensors with 3D vision and reasoning, lane robot closes the innovation gap in traffic management and make New York a city that everyone would like to experience. Lane robot is a technology in place that targets on improving urban mobility and community quality of life with its safer, more reliable traffic flow.

Vision: Remote controlled guardrails promoting flexibility for effective traffic flow.

Looking Ahead

· DOT partner with MTA to make sure this proposal becomes effective and valuable

· With lane robot program, the NYC can be “smarter”

References

· Articles, research, website, reports cited