Integrated Active Transportation System Operational Vision and Implementation Research Plan

Between September, 2010 and December, 2012, UC Berkeley’s Transportation Sustainability Research Center (TSRC), in conjunction with subcontractors Cogenia Partners, LCC, studied how an Integrated Active Transportation System (IATS) could be realized and incorporated into the current United States (U.S.) transportation system. Cogenia Partners, LLC, concentrated on the technical feasibility of IATS and created a research roadmap, identifying how technology might develop under a variety of different circumstances, to make IATS a reality. As thebehavioral experts in the project, TSRC used various research methods to identify the roles of the non-technical elements, such as economics and societal acceptance of technology, as both barriers and opportunities to IATS realization. This report describes the results of a research effort undertaken to identify what sort of advanced system can be realistically realized that can significantly improve safety and mobility while also reducing energy consumption and environmental impact. The project sought to both identify and characterize the social, institutional, economic, legal and technical barriers that would need to be overcome to realize such a system. The research included assessments of possible future scenarios that might prevail and into which such a realization would need to take place. Key results of the work include research roadmaps and strategy recommendations together with a notional concept of operations for the system.