Creating a Roadmap for Safe-D Research Themes and Application Areas: Future Directions in Disruptive Technology and Safety

This project will examine disruptive technologies that could address critical transportation safety challenges in future years. Coined in 1997, a disruptive technology is one that displaces an established technology and shakes up the industry or is a ground-breaking product that creates a completely new industry (Christensen, 1997). Examples of disruptive technologies include the personal computer (PC) that displaced the typewriter and e-commerce retailing that displaced brick-and-mortar stores. In transportation, disruptive technologies include navigation systems that have replaced paper maps and the Uber app that enabled a unique facilitated network business model to create a new ride hailing industry. The defining feature of disruptive technologies is that they involve transformational change (Bratton, 2015).

• Record URL:
  https://www.vtti.vt.edu/utc/safe-d/index.php/creating-a-roadmap-for-safe-d-research-themes-and-application-areas-future-directions-in-disruptive-technology-and-safety/

Language

• English

Project

• Status: Active
• Funding: $46225
• Contract Numbers:

  69A3551747115

• Sponsor Organizations:

  Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology

  University Transportation Centers Program
  Department of Transportation
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Managing Organizations:

  Safety through Disruption University Transportation Center (Safe-D)

  Virginia Tech Transportation Institute
  Blacksburg, VA  United States  24060
• Project Managers:

  Harwood, Leslie

• Performing Organizations:

  Texas A&M Transportation Institute

  Texas A&M University System
  3135 TAMU
  College Station, TX  United States  77843-3135
• Principal Investigators:

  Zmud, Johanna

• Start Date: 20170501
• Expected Completion Date: 20170831
• Actual Completion Date: 0
• USDOT Program: University Transportation Centers Program

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated highway systems; Connected vehicles
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Vehicles and Equipment; VEHICLE DESIGN AND SAFETY;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01681558
• Record Type: Research project
• Source Agency: Safety through Disruption University Transportation Center (Safe-D)
• Contract Numbers: 69A3551747115
• Files: UTC, RIP
• Created Date: Sep 21 2018 5:51PM