Smooth: improved short-distance mobility for a smarter city

Abstract

OSU SMOOTH (Smart Mobile Operation: OSU Transportation Hub) is an autonomous vehicle test bed that aims at providing intelligent transportation systems research for the first and last mile of an individualfis commute. It augments current public transportation infrastructure by providing users with access to a heterogeneous network of on-demand autonomous vehicles. We use demand and usage data to provide optimized scheduling and dispatching services, which provide passengers access to multiple choices of transportation through different automated shuttle sizes and speeds. The system has been designed to maximize the replicability and scalability for future city-wide deployments. It conforms to the National ITS Architecture to maintain the benefits of possible cooperation with other subsystems of ITS.