Authors: Scott Andrews, Susan Shaheen, PhD, William Ullom, and Madonna Camel
Published: December 2012
Abstract: 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 the
behavioral 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.
IATS is a visionary system which strives to achieve a high degree dynamically affected by the
system to optimize traffic flow for the current conditions. This system is architected to be
incrementally deployed beginning with non-automated and semi automated vehicles and
progressing over time to a more deeply controlled system wherein the vehicles are fully
automated.