1) Sustainability problem: Mobility

2) Name of the technology: Autonomous car intersection management

Company: University of Texas at Austin

Link: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/~aim/

• For the idea to work it would require roads to be mostly full of autonomous cars
• Rather than stop at red lights, self-driving cars would schedule a slot through an intersection in real-time
• The researchers compared AIM to heavy traffic on a major road, saying it would reduce delay by as much as 100 times – though that’s only at intersections, not total driving time
• It not only promises to remove time waiting at lights, but will cut fuel usage and emissions as well
• Intersections will be safer than they are today – a third of all fatal accidents in the roads happen at intersections

3) Stakeholders:

• Government (roads authorities)
• Autonomous car developers
• Universities and more researches
• Drivers

4) First 3 steps:

• Invest more in research at the university
• Develop a pilot program in a neighborhood or even university campus
• Advertisement to make people comfortable with the machine conducting them through the intersections

vn2216: Viviane Gandolfi