Commercial Operations

The Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission and Pennsylvania Department of Transportation are
working together on a new Interchange in Bucks County, Pennsylvania which will connect
Interstate 95 to the Pennsylvania Turnpike. This project will complete the missing link of the
I-95 Corridor, making it continuous from Florida to Maine. As part of this significant project,
an ITS system is currently being planned that will provide both agencies with the tools to
effectively manage the roadways. Jacobs is serving as the project’s Design Manager. In this
role, Jacobs is tasked with coordinating the project activities for both agencies and ensuring
the delivery of an ITS system that meets the needs of each agency.

Jacobs

Pennsylvania Turnpike Commission

Pennsylvania Department of Transportation

Integrated corridor management is an emerging approach to managing mobility by
integrating the management of multiple transportation networks within a single corridor. This
white paper analyzes the methodologies and technologies appropriate to corridor
management applications. It provides technical guidance for transportation agencies seeking
to understand options for corridor management as they prepare to embrace this new
approach.

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

The Mie-Prefectural Police Department has been examining the methodology best suited for safety and the smooth flow of traffic. To handle the flow of traffic that changes in a complicated manner, a more advanced signal control is necessary. In terms of preservation of the global environment, the reduction of emission of carbon dioxide from vehicles is also necessary by reducing the unnecessary green time and signal control delay.
To satisfy the requirements from the society, the evaluation on safety and smooth traffic flow was implemented through the movement control demonstration experiment. The experiment was conducted for the purpose of safety improvement by separation of congested movements in  movement units and improvements of smooth traffic flow by signal control according to the volume of traffic, with the cooperation of UTMS Association, Nagoya University, and Nihon  University.

Mie-Prefectural Police Headquarters

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Our far infrared vehicle sensor system is a novel vehicle detector that detects vehicles based
on temperature differences. Consuming less electrical power, it can be powered by a solar cell
battery. Also, it can detect vehicles from oblique directions, and therefore it can be mounted
on a shorter mounted arm and is more aesthetically acceptable. Our far infrared vehicle sensor
is used for a profile traffic signal control system (a model project of a real-time traffic signal
control system) in Kanagawa prefecture and Ehime prefecture, Japan.

Sumitomo Electric Industries, Ltd.

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

We have developed a system platform for a visual assistance for drivers based on the concept
of network-based architecture. The platform consists of inputs blocks, intermediate process
blocks, output-generating process blocks, output blocks and a system control block based on
the IDB-1394 (ITS Data Bus-1394) network. The IDB-1394 has the ability to transmit four
high-resolution videos at the same time on the 400 Mbps network by using video
compression technology called “SmartCODEC®”[1][2], which is built into the IDB-1394
network controller. We have been newly developed SmartCODEC multi-channel decoding
technology to receive all the videos with one IDB-1394 controller for processing multiple
videos. We also developed a prototype of the platform which generates a high-resolution
video according to the driver’s situation.

ITS Research Center

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York