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U.S. Department of Transportation
Intelligent Transportation Systems Program
2005 Update

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U.S. Department of Transportation
Intelligent Transportation Systems Program
2005 Update

TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH B0ARD 84TH ANNUAL MEETING
Washington, DC
January 10, 2005

Jeffrey F. Paniati
Associate Administrator for Operations
Acting ITS Program Manager

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Summary

  • Restructuring of the ITS Program
  • Major Initiatives Updates
    • Ongoing
    • New
    • Measures of Effectiveness
  • Other Key Activities
    • Exploratory Efforts
    • Crosscutting Programs

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Restructuring of the ITS Program

  • Program reoriented to focus on fewer, larger, higher-risk, high-payoff "major initiatives."
  • Nine new major initiatives were approved by the Management Council.
  • Allow for completion of ongoing efforts and initiation of exploratory studies.
  • Fund crosscutting efforts--architecture, standards, professional capacity building, assessment, outreach--that support the overall goals of the ITS Program.

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Major Initiatives

  • Problem-driven and results oriented.
  • Directly support USDOT's goals of safety, mobility, and global connectivity.
  • Multimodal.
  • Engage the private sector while also having a clear public sector role.
  • Opportunities to push the frontier in application of ITS.
  • Significant research and development component, as well as a testing and evaluation component.

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Ongoing Major Initiatives

  • Mobility
    • 511 Deployment
  • Safety
    • Wireless E-911
    • CVISN
    • Intelligent Vehicle Initiative

Crosscutting: Architecture Consistency

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Update: Ongoing Initiatives

  • Intelligent Vehicle Initiative
    • Completed Light Vehicle Rear End Collision Avoidance FOT; will publish results of independent evaluation in spring 2005.
    • IVI Final Report will be published for ITS World Congress in San Francisco, fall 2005. Demonstration to be held.
  • 511
    • As of November 2004, 511 is available to 77 million Americans--26% of the U.S. population.
    • In 2005 the 511 Coalition activities to focus on targeted metropolitan areas.
  • E911
    • Recent legislation created E-911 JPO (NHTSA) and Grant Program.
  • Architecture Consistency
    • Final rule/policy fully effective April 2005.
  • CVISN
    • Reauthorization language contains CVISN deployment grant funds.

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New Major Initiatives

  • Safety
    • Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety Systems
    • Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems
    • Next Generation 911
  • Mobility
    • Integrated Corridor Management Systems
    • Mobility Services for All Americans
    • Clarus
    • Emergency Transportation Operations
  • Global Connectivity
    • Universal Electronic Freight Manifest

Crosscutting: Vehicle Infrastructure Integration

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Integrated Vehicle Based Safety Systems

  • Vision
    • To equip all new vehicles with integrated driver assistance systems that help drivers avoid the most common types of crashes (rear-end, run-off-road, and lane change crashes).
  • Approach
    • Partner with private consortium of vehicle manufacturers.
    • Facilitate introduction and commercialization of integrated crash avoidance systems.
      • Develop tech-independent performance specifications.
      • Build and test prototype vehicles that meet these specifications.
      • Determine driver/operator acceptance of these specifications.

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Cooperative Intersection Collision Avoidance Systems

  • Vision
    • To develop cooperative intersection collision avoidance systems that can save lives and prevent injuries at the most hazardous intersections nationally.
  • Approach
    • Partner with consortium of vehicle manufacturers and infrastructure owners.
    • Develop and demonstrate prototype systems, assess their value and user acceptance, develop and provide tools to support industry deployment.

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Next Generation 9-1-1

  • Vision
    • E911 "calls" from any communication or networked device.
    • Fundamental changes (who, what, where, how) in moving emergency information.
  • Approach
    • Partner with public safety agencies and telecom industry.
    • Broadly seek innovative technical/institutional solutions.
    • Define a system architecture, develop a transition plan.
      • Consider responsibilities, costs, benefits, schedule for nationwide deployment.

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Integrated Corridor Management Systems

  • Vision
    • Improved mobility through integrated management of transportation assets--freeways, arterials, transit, managed lanes--in major transportation corridors in metropolitan areas.
  • Approach
    • Address organizational, operational, and technical barriers to successful integrated corridor management.
    • Demonstrate how mobility, safety, and productivity can be increased in major corridors by:
      • Efficient, effective, proactive use of ITS.
      • Improved use of real-time data sharing.
      • Implementing demand management strategies.

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Mobility Services for All Americans

  • Vision
    • Increase mobility and accessibility for the transportation disadvantaged and the general public through transportation service coordination.
  • Approach
    • Promote optimal allocation of resources and technology deployment through coalition building.
    • Identify needs and gaps in current practice; barriers experienced by people, agencies, service providers.
    • Conduct FOTs for integration and addressing unmet needs.
    • Create a replicable/scalable traveler management coordination center.

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Clarus

  • Vision
    • Reduce the impact of adverse weather for all road users and operators by creating a nationwide road weather observation network and forecasting system.
  • Approach
    • Cultivate partnership between weather and transportation communities--public and private.
    • Promote stakeholder ownership and consensus in an open system design that links existing RWIS and supports future expansion.
    • Establish basic data management functions and a system focused on stakeholder needs.
      • Multi-state regional demo to test system.
      • Model deployment.

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Emergency Transportation Operations

  • Vision
    • Faster and better prepared responses to major incidents, shorter incident duration, reduced impact, and more rapid restoration of normal travel conditions.
  • Approach
    • Build partnership between transportation, public safety, and security communities.
    • Develop tools, guidance, and standards.
      • Focus on three subtopics:
        • Heavy towing/recovery and hazmat response.
        • Improved evacuation methods and major incident traveler info.
        • Standards facilitating incident response and integration.

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Universal-Electronic Freight Manifest

  • Vision
    • Improved operational efficiency, productivity, and security of the transportation system through the use of a common electronic freight manifest and message portal that enables access to shipment information to all supply chain partners in real time.
  • Approach
    • Focus on air freight supply chain.
      • Expand pre-existing stakeholder groups--shippers, carriers.
      • Standardize electronic messages and biometric identifiers.
      • Develop a message portal to carry an electronic manifest across the entire supply chain.
      • Develop a system architecture to define linkages to supply chain users.
      • Develop business case to define rules and procedures for supply chain partners.

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Vehicle Infrastructure Integration

  • Vision
    • To achieve nationwide deployment of an integrated communications infrastructure on the roadways and in all production vehicles to enable a broad range of safety and mobility services that today are unattainable.
    • Approach
      • Convene a "VII Coalition"--auto manufacturers, AASHTO, USDOT--to work through issues in the technical, policy, business models, and outreach areas.
      • Initiate a program to develop DSRC prototypes that will validate DSRC standards and provide equipment for testing elements of the VII concept.
      • Define a VII test concept and demonstrate value to all parties.

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Measures of Effectiveness

  • Established four broad criteria to facilitate a more formal decisionmaking process and keep Initiatives on track.
    • Measures track well with initiative roadmaps and milestones.
  • Management Council will use these criteria to assess the direction of the initiatives and also whether to continue activities or terminate efforts.
  • Criteria are:
    • Stakeholder Acceptance
    • Scope Refinement
    • Business and Technical Architecture
    • Assessment

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Exploratory Efforts

  • Small short term efforts to scope a problem area.
  • Intended to build the case for a future major initiative.
  • Current projects:
    • Pedestrian Safety.
    • ITS to Detect Unsafe Driving Behaviors.
    • Teen Drivers.
    • VII for Mobility.
    • BRT Lane Assist.
    • Wireless Truck Inspections.

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Crosscutting Programs

  • Efforts that provide the foundation for ITS deployment.
    • ITS Standards
    • National Architecture
    • Professional Capacity Building
    • Program Assessment
    • Outreach

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Conclusion

  • Level of activity is high; projects are moving forward rapidly.
  • Major initiatives provide opportunities to push the frontier of ITS forward.
  • Exciting time to get involved.
    • Look for opportunities to participate, especially the private sector.
  • Stakeholder communication, involvement, and feedback is absolutely critical.
  • Focus is on solutions and products, not reports, and the intent is to advance deployment of ITS.

 

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