There are many resources available if you need more information. All of the resources that were used to prepare the Systems Engineering for ITS content or referenced by that content are available here in an expandable outline.
FHWA 23 CFR 940/FTA Policy: https://www.ops.fhwa.dot.gov/its_arch_imp/policy.htm
Guidance from Federal Transit Administration (FTA) on their policy: https://www.transit.dot.gov/research-innovation/national-its-architecture-consistency-policy-transit-projects
Systems Engineering Review Form (SERF), Caltrans Local Assistance Procedures Manual - https://dot.ca.gov/-/media/dot-media/programs/local-assistance/documents/lapm/c07/07i.pdf
The Guide to Contracting ITS Projects, National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP), https://onlinepubs.trb.org/onlinepubs/nchrp/nchrp_rpt_560.pdf
Florida DOT SEMP and Systems Engineering Templates: https://www.fdot.gov/traffic/its/projects-deploy/semp.shtm
Systems Engineering for ITS Projects Memorandum, Federal Highway Administration, July 2022, https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/int_its_deployment/sys_eng.htm [ops.fhwa.dot.gov]
Model Systems Engineering Documents
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE): https://www.incose.org
ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015, Systems and software engineering-System life cycle processes: https://www.iso.org/standard/63711.html
Risk-Based Transportation Asset Management: Evaluating Threats, Capitalizing on Opportunities, FHWA, June 2012: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/asset/pubs/hif12035.pdf
National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) Systems Engineering Handbook: https://www.nasa.gov/connect/ebooks/nasa-systems-engineering-handbook
Department of Defense (DOD) Systems Engineering Plan (SEP) Preparation Guide: https://www.acq.osd.mil/ds/se/publications/pig/sep_prepguide_v1_2.pdf
Buede D. M., The Engineering Design of Systems: Models and Methods, Wiley Inter-Science, 2000
Applying Scrum Methods to ITS Projects, Final Report — August 2017, Publication Number: FHWA-JPO-17-508
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Office of Operations page on Configuration Management: https://ops.fhwa.dot.gov/freewaymgmt/pubs.htm#config_mgmt
Below is a list of organizations providing systems engineering training focused on transportation. The only general systems engineering resource is INCOSE.
National Highway Institute (NHI) – refer to https://www.nhi.fhwa.dot.gov/home.aspx, search on “systems engineering”, there are both Instructor-led Training (ILT) and Web-based Training (WBT)..
Professional Capacity Building (PCB) ITS JPO Program – refer to https://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/default.aspx, search PCB website for “systems engineering”.
Consortium for innovative Transportation Education (CITE) – refer to https://www.citeconsortium.org/ , search CITE website for “systems engineering”.
U.S. DOT ARC-IT National ITS Reference Architecture – refer to https://www.arc-it.net/html/resources/training.html, delivery options range from convenient web-based training for individuals to facilitated workshops for one or more regions.
International Council on Systems Engineering (INCOSE) – refer to https://www.incose.org/. INCOSE is a not-for-profit membership organization founded to develop and disseminate the interdisciplinary principles and practices that enable the realization of successful systems. INCOSE is designed to connect SE professionals with educational, networking, and career-advancement opportunities in the interest of developing the global community of systems engineers and systems approaches to problems.
The following tools relevant to systems engineering are provided by USDOT.
The Architecture Reference for Cooperative and Intelligent Transportation (ARC-IT) is used as a template to create regional ITS architectures that are tailored for a specific state, metropolitan area, or other region of interest (e.g., a major corridor or a National Park). ARC-IT provides the fundamental building blocks: the physical objects (subsystems and terminators), interfaces (as defined by the information flows), service packages, functional objects, and functional requirements that are selectively included in the regional ITS architecture and customized as necessary to fully reflect the envisioned regional transportation system.
The Regional Architecture Development for Intelligent Transportation (RAD-IT) software provides an easy way to personalize and customize ARC-IT for a specific region.
The Systems Engineering Tool for Intelligent Transportation (SET-IT) software provides extensive drawing capabilities to produce project architectures and support Concept of Operations and Requirements definition. SET-IT content is based on ARC-IT and is compatible with the RAD-IT software.
