Potential Solutions to Instantiate AVs and MaaS: Managed Optimisation Architecture for Transportation (MOAT)

Coordinated automated road transport (C‐ART) takes into account current and expected developments in computing, and further posits that road traffic can be optimised only if it is centrally optimised and managed. The valid point made by C‐ART is that the unmanaged stochastic introduction of vehicles into traffic causes congestion, that could be minimised through central control. Managed Optimised Architecture for Transportation offers the following advantages: Simplicity, flexibility of instantiation, retains privacy of the user, user acceptability, and can be merged with MaaS travel optimisation/MaaS broker service provision. Traffic management centres are existing actors who operate the control mechanisms to manage physical movement of traffic through the road network under their control. An automated vehicle operator may be a function operated by the travel service provider (TSP) or an entity subcontracted by the TSP, or may be a function of the travel optimisation service according to the local instantiation, which will differ from place to place.