Federal Department of the Environment,

Transport, Energy and Communications DETEC

Federal Roads Office FEDRO

2nd Annual Conference SCCER Mobility

Challenges for the Federal Roads

Office (FEDRO)

August 26th 2015

Daniel Kilcher

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«Prediction is very difficult, especially

if it’s about the future.»

Niels Bohr

Danish physicist, 1885 - 1962

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Content

• Problems to be challenged

Functionality (capacity – growth / traffic volume)

Limited space / environment

Limited funds

• Measures and opportunities

Traffic management

Bottleneck elimination programme

Vehicle smartness: driverless driving

• Society

• Conclusion

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Functionality: situation today

a quarter of the national motorway network is now

already overloaded.

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491 km of overloaded

roads from wich

- 185 km severely

- 108 km seriously

Functionality: bottlenecks 2030

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Challenges

Limited space

Impact on the environment

Limited funds

Costlier operation

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Content

• Problems to be resolved

Functionality (capacity – growth / traffic volume)

Limited space / environment

Limited funds

• Measures and opportunities

Traffic management

Bottleneck elimination programme

Vehicle smartness: driverless driving

• Society

• Conclusion

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Traffic Management

Optimize use of

available capacities

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Transformation of emergency lanes

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Bottleneck elimination programme

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Functionality: summary

long-termshort term

optimize use of

capacitiesextend

infrastructure

Secure financing

make use of new

technologies

maintenance

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Vehicle smartness: driverless driving

• The vision

• Two ways to get there

• Communication

• Potential

• Points to be resolved

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Fetches me.

Carries me from A

to B.

I may read a journal.

Fetches my kids.

Takes care by itself.

The vision: the all-in-one take-care package

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5th wheel stays: «Fun

driving»

Car as extended living room

Adaption to human behaviour

Daimler Jan 2015

Smartness by evolution

Challenge:

How to deal with human factors?

Extended driver assistance systems:

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• No 5th wheel

• No driver but traveller

• New user group

• First only restricted deployment:

City centre / Motorway

Google Dez 2015

Smartness by revolution

Challenge:

How to deal with mixed traffic situations?

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Communication

Smartphones are part of it

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Potential of vehicles smartness

• 90% less vehicles (source: Burns 2013)

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Potential of driverless driving

• 90% less vehicles (source: Burns 2013)

• Sales drop by 70%

• Lighter:

90% less building resources

Energy use reduced

• Drive safer

• Drive slower but without stop and go:

less polluting

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To be clarified

• Collaboration and coordination between

Industries

Industries – Public Authorities

Countries

modes of transport

• Communication and data traffic

• Adaption of legal basis

• Well balanced liability

• Impacts on the motorway infrastructure and the

elimination of bottlenecks

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Content

• Problems to be resolved

Functionality (capacity – growth / traffic volume)

Limited space / environment

Limited funds

• Measures and opportunities

Traffic management

Bottleneck elimination programme

Vehicles smartness: driverless driving

• Society

• Conclusion

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Society: Relevant trends for FEDRO

• more individualized

• better informed

• more urbanised

• more risk averse

• aging

• growing

• from driver to traveller

Each trend presents its own risks and

opportunities.

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Conclusion

• Roads will continue to play their important or even

dominant role as part of Switzerland’s transport

infrastructure

• The challenges for the FEDRO will continue to increase

and so will the opportunities.

• Collaboration and cooperation between the different

stakeholders will be essential.

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Thank you for your attention.