Caltrans director Malcolm Dougherty reveals his plans to keep California at the forefront of connected and autonomous vehicle research, while maintaining safety

摘要

One morning you wake and realize you're responsible for an US$11bn organization with 20,000 employees and you have to facilitate the mobility of 40 million citizens over 50 million miles of lanes. Either you've been dreaming or you're Malcolm Dougherty director of Caltrans, California's Department of Transportation. He's been having mornings like that since being appointed in May 2012 and seems fairly cheerful about it. I buttonhole him right after he has talked delegates through his vision for the near future of intelligent transportation at the ITS World Congress 2015 in Bordeaux.