Organizing urban ground transport using advanced unmanned technologies

All over the world, highly automated vehicles with different levels of autonomy and scope of application are being actively tested. In particular, unmanned vehicles have begun to be tested in urban public transport. Now developers are actively analyzing errors and problems that arise during the testing of automated vehicles, debugging software modules for vehicle control, improving cameras, lidars and other devices responsible for traffic safety. In addition to the development of autonomy and transport safety, it is also worth paying attention to the development of traffic management tools. At the moment, ordinary traffic control centers operate in Russia, where human dispatchers manage the process of organizing transportation. Of the urban public transport, trams, city trains and taxis are currently being tested in unmanned modes, but in the near future, other types of transport will also be in automated operation. This article will examine the problems of operating automated vehicles, current systems of assistance in organizing the movement of urban transport, and will also propose an automated system for organizing the movement of public transport, which will autonomously, without human intervention, organize traffic, leveling the difficulties of the process of operating highly automated vehicles.

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