Commercial Operations

In 2007, ITS Rocky Mountain (ITSRM), with IDT Group and the Western Transportation
Institute (WTI), successfully developed and delivered a 1½ day training course on Road
Weather Information Systems (RWIS) to ITS America (ITSA) members.  We developed this
course within an extraordinarily aggressive schedule while maintaining high training industry
standards for content and learning measurement.  We have subsequently delivered the course
multiple times throughout the country and have received outstanding evaluations; it
obviously fulfills a need within the industry.  While this pilot project was successful, we
learned several lessons from the experience.  These lessons include the positive and negative
consequences of dramatically accelerating the development timeline and the cost implications
of developing high quality training regardless of schedule compression.

IDT Group, LLC

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Pinellas County, Florida, home to Clearwater and St Petersburg beaches, located in the
Tampa Bay region, continues to battle congestion on its signalized arterial transportation
system by exploring non-intrusive and cost effective solutions. A joint-agency Countywide
ITS committee was formed to decide on technologies that would increase capacity along
these arterial corridors. The committee chose to implement two FHWA-supported RTTRACS
adaptive signal packages, RHODES, researched and distributed by ATLAS
Research Center, University of Arizona, and Telvent-Farradyne’s OPAC. This discussion
will focus on the deployment, operation and maintenance of deploying these systems, along
with an overview of lessons learned on their deployment thus far.

Pinellas County Traffic Management

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

The Integrated Incident Management System (IIMS) is a multi-agency incident management
project deployed in New York City, funded and managed by New York State Department of
Transportation (NYSDOT). The USDOT added support to the IIMS project as part of the
Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Public Safety Program. Federal transportation funds
have supported IIMS from the following sources; the USDOT Joint Program Office (JPO) as
a national demonstration project, Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) and I-95
Corridor Coalition funding. It has been successfully evaluated by SAIC on behalf of USDOT.
It is being utilized in New York City to share information and coordinate incident response
between field responders and operation centers in real-time. IIMS utilizes the IEEE-1512
standard for server communication. Recently, work has been done to make IIMS
interoperable w i t h systems utilizing a different communication standard (TMDD FEU).
Although both standards fill a different need and contain a number of different data elements,
there is information common to both of them. A lot of lessons have been learned in trying to
communicate that shared information.

New York State Department of Transportation

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

After several projects concerning traffic information services the Bavarian Board of Building
has initiated the founding of a Traffic Information Agency, whose tasks are to improve the
already existing services, now publicly operated and to base them on a common technical
platform. The operation of this agency called “Verkehr in Bayern” (ViB) has been tendered
for a run-time of 10 years from the start in January 2006. The services of the VIB will consist
of free basic services, services for the public authorities and payable value-added services.
Quality assurance of raw data, generated information and the final services is a basic task for
the public side to perform within the PPP-framework.

Peter Pollesch

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

The City of Tampere in central Finland, Europe, together with neighboring municipalities,
form a region of about 350.000 citizens, from which more than 200.000 citizens live in the
City of Tampere. The region has since the beginning of 1990’s actively developed through
public-private partnerships and co-operation some of the Europe’s leading ITS services for
citizens and private & public organizations. Examples of these advanced services are: GPSpositioning and priority system for buses and emergency vehicles, real-time public transport
information displays at bus stops and main public places, mobile and web based public
transport information for travelers, multi-purpose smart cards for public transport, libraries,
swimming arenas etc, public transport journey planner, journey planner for cyclists, voice
recognition and text message based timetable information, real-time parking place
information, warning system for trucks approaching low bridges, boat/ferry connection
information displays, taxi and demand responsive dispatching systems, real-time traffic
information portal that collects data from floating cars, fixed measurement points and traffic
lights and combines all the traffic data in the city and many more. In the spring 2007 the
different stakeholders; ITS service providers, hardware suppliers, software suppliers,
consultancies, universities and authorities decided to establish an open co-operation network
to promote and co-ordinate the existing and future development and implementation activities
in the City of Tampere and the surrounding region in a more organized and effective manner.
Thus all the development activities could benefit from and support each other and make
Tampere one of the main cities and test-beds in the world in the field of advanced ITS
systems.

WSP Finland Ltd.

Mobisoft Ltd.

Presented at the 15th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York