# Presentation: 440116

## National Intelligent Truck Consortium (NITC)

**Gary Capps**
**gcp@ornl.gov**
**423-574-2981**

**Oak Ridge, Tennessee**
**September 16, 1998**

## Workshop Goals

***1*****.  To come together and establish a national intelligent truck consortium with a focus on technology integration, development of a single user interface and interrupt protocols/standards for the system**

***2*****.  To establish a technical and administrative structure to bring about item 1**

***3*****.  To understand the needs of our first potential source of funding**

***4*****.  To tailor the structure in item 2 to meet the needs of our potential sponsor**

## AgendaNational Intelligent Truck Consortium (NITC) WorkshopGarden Plaza Hotel, 215 South Illinois Ave., Oak Ridge, Tennessee

**September 16, 1998**
**7:00 – 8:30 a.m.****	****Continental Breakfast and Registration**
**8:30 – 8:45****	****Welcome, Introductions, and Agenda Review**
- 	(Gary Capps)
**8:45 – 9:15****	****Review of IVI with an Emphasis on CVO**
- 	FHWA (Invited)
- 	ITS America (Invited)
- 	Bill Kneé/ORNL
- 	Jeff Muhs/ORNL
**9:15 – 9:30****	****IVI User Services and Phased Approach**
- 	(Gary Capps)
**9:30 – 9:45****	****Break**
**9:45 – 11:15****	****Breakout Session I – User Services as Applied to Generation 0 ****(All)**
- 	1) Accident Prevention - Kathy Gambrell/ORNL
- 	2) Vehicle Diagnostics/Prognostics - Bob Schilling/ORNL
- 	3) Human Interface Standardization - Bill Kneé/ORNL
- 	4) Mobile Services and Information Systems - Lara Baughman/ Navigational Technologies
**11:15 – 12:00****	****Breakout Session I Reports**
**	****(Team Leaders)**

**12:00 – 1:00****	****Working Lunch – Technical Presentations**
- 	Phil Spelt/ORNL
- 	Mark Haslam/DriverTech
- 	Bob Schilling/ORNL
**1:00 – 1:15****	****Technical Approach (Gary Capps)**
**1:15 – 2:15****	****Breakout Session II – Four Focus Areas of Technical Approach ****(All)**
- 	1) Definition of Requirements - Steve 	McNeany/ORNL
- 	2) System Integration - Mark 		Haslam/DriverTech
- 	3) Field Operational Tests - Gary 	Capps/ORNL
- 	4) Consortium Funding Strategy, Structure, 	and Outreach - Jeff Muhs/ORNL
**2:15 – 2:30****	****Break**
**2:30 – 3:15****	****Breakout Session II Reports**
**	**** ****(Team Leaders)**
**3:15 – 3:30 ****	****Proposed Consortium Mission, Vision, Organization and Management**
- 	(Gary Capps)
**3:30 – 4:00****	****Wrap-up**
- 	(Gary Capps/All)

## The NITC

- The NITC is a consortium of industry, academia, and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory with a primary mission to integrate existing technology into an open architecture system with a single graphical user interface suitable for commercial vehicles.  Within this direction, exists the opportunity and need for research and development, future integration of emerging technology, potential definition of needed infrastructure and technology and policy/institutional changes.

## User Services(as Recommended by the ITS Working Group on CVO)

**Driver Condition Warning**
**Forward Collision Warning**
**Roadway Departure Warning**
**Vehicle Diagnostics & Prognostics Monitoring**
**Vehicle Dynamic & Stability Control**
**Emerging User Services (Industry Driven)**
**Human Interface Standardization**
**Mobile Services Information Systems (MSI)**

## NITC Breakout Group Structure

**Session I - User Services Teams**
**	****1.****	****Accident Prevention**
***a.******	******  Driver Condition Monitoring***
***b.******	******  Forward Collision & Lane Departure Warning***
***c.******	****** Vehicle Stability***
**2.  Vehicle Diagnostics & Prognostics**
**3.  Human Interface Standardization**
**4.  Mobile Services and Information Systems (MSI)**

## Implementation Plan

**Phase**_**	**_**  **_***Gen 0***__***	***_***  ***_***Gen 1***__***	***_***  ***_***Gen 2***_
**Years****	****1999 - 2001****	****2000 - 2003****	****2002 - 2006**
**Operational****	****Warning****	****Assistance****	****Control**
**Focus**
**Technical****	****Integration****	****Emerging****	****R&D**
**Emphasis****	****	****Technology**
**	****	****Development**

## Consider the following Vehicle/Driver Elements

- Driver
- Tractor/Chassis/Trailer
- Drivetrain
- Braking Systems/Tires
- Communications
- On-Board Computing, etc.
- Sensor Instrumentation
- Others?

## Breakout Session Objectives

**Based on the expected NITC phased implementation approach discussed earlier, determine what aspects of the selected user service the breakout group members feel are realistically achievable (can be developed, integrated, and implemented) in a three-year, “Generation 0,” field operation test.**
**Outline the steps necessary to achieve this specific portion of the overall operational test.**
**Determine who the likely industry team leaders should be for the particular User Service.**
**Generate a short statement that describes the expected outcome that is envisioned for this particular user service.**

## Technical Approach

- Definition of Requirements
- Technology Assessment
- Research and Development
- System Integration
- Testing and Evaluation
- Field Operational Test
- Consortium Funding Strategy, Structure, and Outreach

## NITC Breakout Group Structure

**Session II - Technical Approach Teams**
**1.  Definition of Requirements**
**2.  System Integration**
**3.  Field Operational Tests**
**4.  Consortium Funding Strategy, Structure, and Outreach**

## Breakout Session Objectives

**Looking at the NITC “Generation 0” from a systems perspective, the breakout group should outline the key technical/institutional challenges that must be overcome prior to completion of the above tasks.**
**Outline the technical/administrative approach the group believes the Consortium should take to overcome these challenges.**
**Generate a short statement that describes the expected outcome that is envisioned for this particular Technical Approach.**

## Vision

**The National Intelligent Truck Consortium envisions a time in the next decade when because of its efforts, a majority of commercial vehicles and frequently traveled highways are equipped with commercially-viable, integrated, and standardized productivity-enhancing systems and safety warning, assistance, and control systems.  Responding to changing internal and external environments, these "intelligent" trucks (along with accompanying drivers that are better informed and equipped) will continually adapt to and mitigate potential safety- and productivity-compromising situations, thereby preventing a significant number of accidents and greatly improving motor carrier productivity. **

## Mission

- Working as a unified team, the NITC’s mission is to integrate off-the-shelf technology along with newly developed technology into economically-viable commercial vehicle safety and productivity enhancing systems, and to deploy these systems on our nations highways.  Further, the Consortium's mission is to provide a commercially-neutral, value-added avenue for member companies to team with one another and cost-share R&D activities in a area of common interest (commercial vehicle safety systems).  Ultimately, the mission is to save our customers and the motoring public time, money, and most importantly, lives on our nations highways.

## Technical Approach Teams

- Definition
- Assessment
- Integration
- R&D
- Test & Evaluation
- Field Test
- Demonstration & Outreach

## User Service Teams

**Accident Prevention**
**Driver Condition Warning**
**Forward Collision Warning**
**Roadway Departure Warning**
**Vehicle Dynamic & Stability Control**
**Vehicle Diagnostics & Prognostics Monitoring**
**Human Interface**
**Mobile Services Information Systems (MSI)**

## NITC Steering Committee

**NITC Steering Committee**

**User Services Team Members**
**Accident Prevention**
**Vehicle Diagnostics & Prognostics Monitoring**
**Human Interface**
**Mobile Services Information Systems (MSI)**

**Technical Approach Team Members**
**Definition**
**Assessment**
**Integration**
**R&D**
**Test & Evaluation**
**Field Test**
**Demonstration & Outreach**

## NITC Crosscutting Technologies Committee

**Members from each of the Consortium’s Entities**
**(i.e., Company, University, Laboratory, etc.)**

## NITC

**Technical Approach Teams**