Commercial Operations

In 2002, the results of the regional transport studies for England were published outlining
recommended improvements for the country’s transport infrastructure. These included
widening the most heavily used parts of motorway network from three to four lanes. This
was to be within the current highway boundaries. An additional recommendation was that
strategic journeys on the network should receive the benefit of this additional capacity. In
some multimodal studies, as they were known, road user charging was recommended to
promote this, others were silent on methods to achieve it.
The Highway Agency, responsible for the maintenance, improvements to and operation of all
motorways and trunk roads in England, were charged with delivering the increased capacity
and the task of “locking in the capacity benefit” that these construction programmes would
deliver over the next five years.
This paper describes the recent work within the Highways Agency to introduce Integrated
Traffic Management to better manage access to the motorway network to achieve this.

Highways Agency, UK

Atkins Transport Systems, UK

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California

This paper presents a critical analysis of charging technology options and matches them to
existing and emerging charging policies. Case studies explored in the paper of charging
schemes in Switzerland, Austria, US, Germany, Sweden, France and the UK shows that
DSRC is already emerging as a common interoperable platform between electronic tolling,
distance-based and area congestion charging schemes - even if each application depends
upon another method. The expected ‘battle of the technologies’ driven by market-seeking
technology vendors has now become a search for the best ‘mix’ of technologies rather than
the best single technology solution. Feasible technology ’mixes’, including DSRC /
tachograph, GPS / DSRC and DSRC / ANPR, are presented based on case studies to
illustrate that we need to take a more contingent view on technology choice rather than
accept the collective but polarised wisdom of industry.

Transport Technology Consultants

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California

The Minnesota Department of Transportation was awarded a grant from the United States Department
of Transportation to conduct field operational test that will demonstrate effective voice and data
interfaces between private sector call centers, or telematic service providers (TSP), and public safety
answering points (PSAPS). The field operational test’s objectives are to demonstrate deliver voice
communication from the TSP call center directly to the appropriate PSAP based on the location of the
vehicle. Additionally, this project has demonstrated a viable approach for data transfer between the
TSP call center and the responder community.

Minnesota Department of Transportation

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California

The Minnesota Department of Transportation embarked upon the TIGER (Traveler
Information Guidance and Emergency Routing) Project in the summer of 2003. The
geographical scope of this project is the transportation corridor between the Minneapolis/St.
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Paul metropolitan area (pop. 2.9 million) and St. Cloud (pop. 90,000), which is located 60
miles northwest. The TIGER project is uniquely challenging in many ways. Not the least
of which is the challenge of providing a reliable and cost-effective communication network to
field devices with varying bandwidth requirements and in areas with limited existing
infrastructure. This paper summarizes Mn/DOT’s approach, which employs a fiber optic
backbone as well as high bandwidth and low bandwidth wireless communication. This
paper provides an overview and lessons learned from the communication planning, design
and deployment efforts to date.

Minnesota Department of Transportation

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California

AAA/CAA clubs are deploying advanced communications hardware and software for the
purpose of improving road service to its members. Low-cost wireless data
communications continues to grow in strategic importance to AAA road service as a means
to:

• accelerate the information process permitting the service vehicles to arrive at the

breakdown location faster and handle more calls per day.

• enable electronic payment processing and other transactions at roadside.

• capture information from the members, their vehicles, and the service provider

which is useful for AAA planning and real-time management of the service fleets
and call center personnel.

• accurately transmit information and warehouse it in databases.

• incorporate service vehicle location into decision making (see AAA’s Wireless

Data and Intelligent Fleet Management, ITSWC Madrid 2003).

AAA/North America

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California