INTELIGENTNI TRANSPORTNI SUSTAVI I VIRTUALNA MOBILNOST U FUNKCIJI SMANJIVANJA UTJECAJA PANDEMIJE COVID-19/INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS AND VIRTUAL MOBILITY TO MITIGATE THE IMPACT OF THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

Fully autonomous vehicles represent the highest degree of integration of intelligent transport systems that enable road vehicles to form virtual road trains. Such a concept, in which autonomous vehicles are connected by communication links, enables them to significantly reduce the distance between them and travel at the same speed while maintaining the direction (lateral holding). Such concepts are first expected in freight transport, but it can be assumed that such forms of innovation will not lag behind in passenger transport either. Such concepts result in increased flow and reduced dynamics, ie reduction of the collision potential on the road. Such concepts are also in favor of pandemic measures because they replace the classic forms of passenger transport, with at the same time equal or even better effects in terms of safety, comfort, flow, etc. While classic trains can run between railway stations, virtual road trains can be formed on any which part of the road infrastructure, at any time and according to any current traffic demand requirements. The paper will explain other concepts of intelligent transport systems that can meet the pandemic requirements in a way that does not significantly reduce the capacity, availability, comfort and performance of the transport system