Literary career. P. M. Rom noon to 3 eastern, june 4. Host now a discussion on the future of Transportation Networks in this country. Joined by Regina Hopper, president of the Intelligent Transportation society of america. Is everything, you hink about tolling, many folks are used to going through tolling, that is intelligent function, Traffic Management systems, some communities you sit at the light wonder, why cant i go if there is no one coming the other Management System that allow us to manage traffic etter and connected vehicles, cars that talk to each other. Talk to the autonomous ure and vehicles. Ranges spectrum for many things, about its hing america, we have the folks sitting at the table trying to what that next future of transportation is. At who are folks that sit the table, who makes up the its america and how do you figure get behind . What is the Intelligent Transportation system that will a system there are options to choose from. Guest there are. At the estion, who sits table, we have our state dot, no the r where you live in united states, you have a state department of transportation, local department of at our tation that sit table. Those in research and academia, what g at questions about does it mean to move to Intelligent Transportation nvironment and then private companies that are developing a lot of technology and pushing it out on to the road. Make your decisions, that is actually a really interesting question around policy. We, like other organizations, ave a board that comes up with policy. It is taking for state dot from fixing pot holes, picking up signs, where does intersect . Chnology what we try to do is allow them ask ve a forum to questions. Most of our dots will say, our that we l say tis not are against move intoing new technology, it is we dont want o be the people that bought beta max. Technology changes so quickly, up, how do we have to staff and provide the forward . E to move host this is the forum for viewers to ask their questions. The Transportation Network necessary your community, tell us about Intelligent Transportation systems well be talking about, how they are impacting you and your life. Morning, es this democrats, 2027488000. Republicans, 2027488001. Independents, 2027488002. Folks are calling in, give examples, what are current most pressing ransportation concerns that could be affected and proved by Transportation Systems . Host most of us in washington country, i was in arkansas over the holiday, you see lines of traffic. We dont see congestion will get better. It is hard to build your way out congestion issues that we have. So how can we use data . Of people use ways, the dat aaggregate data and say, dont go down main go down fifth street. Dont take the beltway, go another route. Of Intelligent Transportation, where the private sector has taken nformation and put together to say, you as a consumer can utilize that information in a way to help you move. Way is just pure Traffic Management. You have probably gone on freeways, where you see, im on the onramp, and i see people road. Down the that onramp is not letting me on yet, red and green lights say now, that is n happening to manage the flow of traffic. The is everything from connected vehicle pilots, happening down in the southern where new york city, buses, those in public ransportation, are utilizing buses that have been equipped to vehicle and vehicle to Infrastructure Technology to allow lights to stay green. On at point a and you are going to point b, instead of think of itb and c, as express versus local, it will allow you to do that. Everything from Public Transit to your own car. Last example, vehicle to Infrastructure Technology, money and lot of effort built into the infrastructure for something happen. T to people are looking at pot holes n the roads, how do they make their choice between fixing that pot hole and installing the make thatnecessary to Bus Technology happen . How do you make that choice, would you recommend to policy makers making that choice . Fast act, Service Transportation act, a year ago the first time we built in innovation policy into transportation initiative, which allowed us to d. O. T. s flexibility to take dollars and say what is ost important in my region, what is most important in my state and that for the first time allowed us to say, yeah tis a certain amount of money for those purposes. Aboutstingly enough, talk pot holes or building new infrastructure, for example in utah d. O. T. Director, he actually takes the Initiative Im going to build a new road or fix a new road, im that to go ahead and build broadband capacity within the where if i re, to cant light up that broadband at this point in time, what i can is have it available to me, i can make more investment and that interconnectivity ability in place. Yeah, i mean host how much pushback did he saying, listen, make sure bridges arent falling down and roads are paved. Is the argument that official can make threading the there . Guest it is one of education, a lot of folks that, is part of do, make trying to sure people understand what this means and how investment can the future. For example, in pennsylvania, she. Secretary up there, is trying to say, okay, if im looking at the pennsylvania i dont have anymore room to grow. I cant build my land out any there is nothing to take. So for us, we have to incorporate these system intoes our existing infrastructure and, d. O. T. , d. O. T. Head in michigan will say, i get people saying, why didnt you fix the pot hole on such and whych and arent you putting up a sign here. T is a balance and they are having to make decisions. That is what were trying to do, them. Them make ost Regina Hopper, preesident and c. E. O. Of its america. Aking your questions and comments, as we discuss the future of transportation country. In this powder springs, georgia, line for democrats up next. Good morning. Hi, how are this morning . Host doing well, go ahead. Concerned about transportation involving more people going more places. We used to be able to take a train from atlanta to chicago, cant do that anymore. Transportations other places have we dont have in georgia. They have light rail that is coming on in denver, other things that are happening that really untry arent happening here. And i would love to see some of in georgia. Ion i dont know how to get that georgia point of view, maybe you can help us with that. Host Regina Hopper. Really good question. As with all politics, local, all transportation basically is local. One of the things were having the ssions with administration, how do you make balance between how federal disbursed down to the states and how states have in using bility dollars to allow communities to determine for themselves how money should be spent. It is a big question, right . Systems that state are interstate, we have to use federal dollars. Go to the callers question, Public Transit is a tough question. Got to really look at budgets that are coming out, reductions inffer public transportation, i mean, in transport. A question of like i said, transportation is local. Father was highway commissioner in the state of arkansas for a number of years growing up member listening to him talking to folks about what are the actual ssues that we are having to face in our communities and how do we look forward 15 to 20 years. The caller, make sure that your desires are the federal ly on level, but the local and state level. Focused onur society road and highway transportation . Rail . Ch do you focus on the caller was interested in rail . Guest it used to be its america traditional road surface transportation, but intermodal, the of transportation, as a service, i want to get in car and drive to Public Transit, take a bike, and get on and seamlessly move like with one Payment System this, is art of Intelligent Transportation now. We were once only about the oad, now we have to be about a broader portfolio and that, of course, we havent talked about might enter. They host we certainly will get to that this morning. Lincoln, ing in nebraska, line for good morning. Taking thenk you for call. One thing in the news a lot ecently is selfdriving vehicles, which mrs. Hopper mentioned briefly when you first came on. Thing that concerns me as a driver is knowing there is going selfdriving vehicles out there on the road potentially day. Were talking about intelligent ransportation, is it intelligent to have selfdriving cars with no human judgment on else . Oad with everyone thank you. Guest it is such a great raises. N the caller because Automated Vehicles have mation. T levels of auto if you have a car that will allow you to park itself, that Automated Vehicle. If you have a car now that says, down the road, dont change lanes, im telling you you, lane car beside departure warning, that is lane automation. The Automotive Industry is good at adapting, bringing new to the vehicle so folks can begin to understand what that is. Think what the caller is talking about, the more highly Automated Vehicle, that car is down to be driving itself the road. What we need to do is do make both hat folks understand what that means and secondarily, rom a regulatory perspective, how you then integrate what we call the humandriven car and Automated Vehicles. Much of the research right now that is being done in california arizona and pennsylvania, in states, michigan, around the where cities and communities have allowed autonomy, autonomoushgs s the road, and the local leaders have let the happening. This is some geofencing is taking place, you know in certain is ks that testing happening. There are a lot of questions around Automated Vehicles that be addressed. Host how far are we from the testing phase to what the caller called his concern about him driving down the road and there being an Automated Vehicle next him . Guest i think a ways. Tell happen in 2020, 2025 . A lot of folks have their own opinions on that. Perspective, most important thing to do, have the right Public Policy in place. See states taking different approaches with regard Autonomous Vehicles and many maintain t. s want to nne autonomy, we know how vehicles work on the roads, we also know if you have automus and le, you cant drive stop at the border or drive in the state of nebraska and stop border, what happens when you go over, all the were ns around this now starting to deal with. Host trenton, new jersey, john is a democrat. Morning. Caller good morning. Thanks for taking my phone call. Drone cars and nterested in mag lift, the trains that are driven on processes. What are we going to do to integrate this . So, you know, i dont know. You know, this is one of those talking when youre about layers of transportation, talking about people who are walking, people who are iking, people who are driving, whether Autonomous Vehicles and drones e thought of carrying either passengers, like the caller said, the car drone, the delivery taxi drones. To a ted talk elon musk was doing, he is the visionary thinker in a lot of Technology Transportation and hes saying, the thing about car drones, right now, they are really loud and if your whole intelligent ving transportation was to make people feel safer because in the end, the basic fundamental around intelligent is to create safer transportation. Technology in se a way that reduces the number of crashes that we have every year. To the callers question, but one point that is nearly 40,000ake, people a year die on our roads accidents. If you thought fthat could apply to anything else, you had that people die nothing planes, that many people die og trains, dieing from a defective product, we would be sitting here in an congress going, 40,000 people died because of that . There is a lot to be said that part en just say, that is of transportation. But that cant be right. Cant assume that any one of those lives lost because of lack acceptable. S so as our d. O. T. Director like he will om michigan, say, is one loss acceptable . My nt think so, not on roads. So what were trying to do is sure the safety element and the safety benefits utilizing Intelligent Transportation come first. Quickly back to the drone car issue. To see be interesting and there are a lot of people working on this, how you levels of hose transportation, whether it be the person who is walking and interface with a driver, autonomous or connected, deal with bicycles on the road and how that intersects with traffic. Looking at drone, forget drone cars, but drone passage what right of do they have, what rightofway are the drones going to use . You need a way to say, we need flight plans or delivery lans, where you are not constantly having to duck and dive around these vehicles. A lot of technology is coming at us very quickly. And trying to do is say, okay, make sure fundamental andciple of safety is first go into adaptation and utilization. Host what is role of government deploying that technology or trying to get it outside to market . Is there a danger of picking winners and losers here by the government . Guest well, yeah, i think i would address that question this way in that government tends to best, delibis at its rative. Often and ation technologies often outpace that you sawd effort, right . That, you see that now in that the Obama White House went and said use twitter or social the first time, well update the Computer Systems within the government. While to try ok a to get that to work well. I said, comes at us very quickly, what state d. O. T. s and local d. O. T. Are do, figure out how do you analyze that technology to the basic fundamental of safety is met and is that the government saying, these are certain types of line items that youre for . Ng probably no, but yet, it is the provide ts role to safety, so for the government to the le to say, these are sort of elements we need from a safety perspective, private perspective, yes, that is a role. Y ost madeline in athens, georgia, good morning. Caller good morning, thank you for taking my call. Fascinated by this subject, advocate for Public Transit in athens, georgia, for a long time. Noticed early on that it ould be offered and made accessible to people only during hours and only really people who y this, already had cars, it was used as to excludethose who were vehic vehicleless from public meetings. An buses would stop running hour before the city council at , so it reasonably changed and it was local. We failed to hear you say that all starts locally. Need a Pilot Program here one summer offering the use free access to Public Transit. Guess what . They loved it. They wbt went to the library, the university programs, the parks, they got out of their povertystricken neglected, redlined into the ods and community, to which they have every right to belong. A success. Host thanks for sharing your topdown her than a approach, this is from grassroots up. Is important, one of the interesting things about technology is that it have access toou it and so the point she makes about making sure everyone has technology is important. But the other thing about echnology, it can be an equalizer. F you think about autonomy, true or some sort of lower level of autonomy, you have access to. Think of how many people get access to transportation. About seniors who maybe shouldnt be driving anymore, to yet if they have access mobility on demand or mobility of service or some sort autonomy. And think about car services in your older ears that can pick up a phone or call other things, it allows they didnt equity have before. Allows them to have access, same caller g folks. The talked about young folks go library. The being able to do afterschool or is rwork programs, this what were trying to do, open up technologies to folks in way to ring them more into the communities. Host again, its america. Org, to work that Regina Hopper does with her group. Time for a couple more calls. Wait nothing new york, democrat, joseph, good morning. Morning. Good guest good morning. Caller yes, hi. That theyre experimenting with school buses wondering how m they are doing, if that is working out . Ost what kind of experiment, joseph . Caller well, they are using schoolfor driving buses, buses, i understand. Driverless school buses . Caller driverless school buses, new est in arizona or mexico, i was wondering how it is working out. Dont know about school autonomously,riven but there is a lot of work out west wrshgs they have more land, large trucks and so recently they just had a large deliver beer autonomously, i cantknow, im sorry, address the question about the school buses, but there is a lot f work out west, especially in the state of arizona. Arizona is one of the states in ande want you to come use the ability, we have a lot of land and space to test they are doing a lot of it. Host that come from the Governors Office or who is push . G the guest it is coming from the office, along with the d. O. T. In arizona, have come yeah, we want you to in and test these vehicles here. Were going to let the public it, we want doing you to see arizona as a place that is open n. California, they doing, of course we know valley, but they were taking a more regulatory approach. States, different ways. Host one more call, bill, line for republicans, good morning. Yes, good morning. How are you . Guest good morning. Caller good. This, what is the cost to the taxpayers going to i dont t comes to, know, local funding, the cars selfcontrolled local roads, state roads, or interstate, is it something that a driver will his car to an area where it gets on a system . Guest uhhuh. Not er question that has yet been answered, another question that needs to be where will you be able to drive the cars first. The state of florida has had quite a bit of these cars and they do services in florida because the population of because they have very long stretches of interstate, where they worry about people paying attention worry about people falling asleep and worry about people there has rong way been a lot of testing done in the state of florida. Ith regard to what is the role of the taxpayer in this, right . This goes back to funding. And do you fund these systems and gh a mix of federal state funds . Do you add Public Private partnership into those . Thing the Trump Administration put forward in is outline for a budget plan actually having federal government put a little money into it and having a private come in and do Public Private partnership. Host Regina Hopper, president c. E. O. Of Intelligent Transportation society of merica, its america. Org, on twitter, at its underscore america. Thank you for your time this morning. It. T appreciate host well end our program today, last 30 minutes, taking this question. We want to know what you think about the future of relations, start call nothing now. The screen. On well be right back. Resulted in naval victory in japan six months after attack on harbor. Friday, American History t. V. Will be live all day from the Memorial Visitor Center in norfolk, virginia, 75th battle of nor way. Bohrman, the fivestar won the war at home. Carlson, and anthony tulley, coauthor of shattered sword, the untold story of the and timothy way orr coauthor of never call me remembering the battle of midway. 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