Wednesday, August 27, 2014

OC CIO Minutes August 14, 2014


1993-2014

Southern California/Orange County CIO Breakfast Round Table

August 14, 2014 meeting


Present:        Keith Golden, Sean Brown, Jeff Hecht, Jim Sutter, Jeff Crowell,

                     Dave Phillips

Attendance at the summer months meetings has been a little disappointing, especially when you consider the work each speaker puts into his/her presentation.

Topic:          Future of Intelligent Transportation

Keith listed the milestones in traffic management, from the manual intersection signals in 1868 all the way to today’s widespread use of camera for vehicle detection (see slide 3).  At each major intersection there is independent signal infrastructure, often connected to a traffic management control center, which coordinates traffic movement in both directions.  It is more complicated than one might think.  Keith addressed most of the FAQs for today’s signal systems.  Then he took a look at the future, where vehicles can be assisted, or connected to each other(V2V), or to infrastructure (V2I).  Before long we will see self-driving cars.  There is plenty of motivation – 33,000 people are killed and 2.3M are injured each year on American roads.  Slide 14 lists the vehicle assists now available.  Slide 15 lists the V2V connected features now available.  Slide 16 lists the V2I feature now available. Keith's slides are at: http://www.slideshare.net/occio  .

This was a fascinating presentation – thank you, Keith.

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