The program has enabled Transport for New South Wales (TfNSW) Transport Management Centre (TMC) to expand their use of drones to improve incident response, emergency management and special events management, while supplementing existing roadside detection systems, closed circuit television (CCTV) and other devices. The Drones Program has improved incident response, congestion and event management, via the widespread provision of enhanced real-time and situational information to the TMC.

Ensuring equitable and inclusive access to transport services and activities will be paramount for the overall well-being of everyone. Universally designed accessible autonomous people movers (UD APMs) have the potential to provide transport service services for everybody thereby contributing to an enhanced quality of life and greater productivity. Benefit cost analysis of a universally designed accessible autonomous people mover including job creation, government subsidies, and the ability to facilitate additional trips for work, education, medical, and other purposes due to improved accessibility.

In this presentation, I will discuss the challenge of forecasting pedestrian trajectories in shared urban traffic environments using non-invasive sensor modalities in both autonomous vehicles and smart infrastructure domains. I will also show how proposed innovative AI based framework could help in overcoming some of those challenges.