AERIS BAA announcement DTFH61-10-F-00033

The Intelligent Transportation System Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) announces the selection of seven projects to identify research opportunities which the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) AERIS (Applications for the Environment: Real-Time Information Synthesis) program could leverage. The seven projects were selected in response to Broad Agency Announcement DTFH61-10-F-00033.

Each of the seven projects will focus on specific research, as identified below, with the awarded work orders effective October 1, 2010.

Projects and work orders have been made to the following performing organizations:

• Mixon/Hill will conduct investigations to extract environmentally relevant real-time data from vehicles and then calculating performance measures based partly upon previous CLARUS and Data Use, Analysis, and Processing (DUAP) research projects.
• Virginia Tech will develop IntelliDrive^SM eco-adaptive signalized intersection algorithms.
• Virginia Tech and SAIC will develop and evaluate Intelligent eco-drive applications, specifically looking at adaptive cruise control capabilities.
• University at Buffalo will conduct an evaluation of likely environmental benefits of lowest fuel consumption route guidance in the Buffalo-Niagara metropolitan area (a medium sized metropolitan area).
• University of California PATH Program (UC Berkeley) will further engagement with the international community on ITS and environmental research initiatives.
• University of California - Riverside (UCR) will build upon their previous research in ITS and the environment to synthesize research results and to recommend data collection methods, environmental analysis methods, integration of simulation and environmental modeling tools, and suggestions for ITS applications and strategies.
• University of California - Riverside (UCR) and Calmar Telematics will investigate the use of real-time on-vehicle data to calculate environmental performance measures.

The AERIS research program is part of the USDOT's IntelliDrive initiative. The AERIS program focuses on the capture, synthesis, and delivery of real-time, vehicle- and infrastructure-based, environmentally relevant information to support system management that advances environmental improvements within the transportation system. For more information on IntelliDrive and AERIS, see www.IntelliDrive.org.

ITS JPO is a program office within the USDOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA). USDOT Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is administering these projects.