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).
Language
- English
Project
- Status: Active
- Funding: $46225
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Contract Numbers:
69A3551747115
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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
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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