Commercial Operations

A section of congested US Interstate was selected for conversion to support non-tolled lanes
and tolled lanes using plastic pylons for separation between the two.  The conversion was
accomplished by re-striping the road from 5 lanes to 6 lanes, making the two leftmost lanes
into tolled lanes.  The tolling strategy is designed to maintain a level of service experienced
by the user while maximizing the total funds  collected.  Simply stated, the toll rates will
increase before congestion occurs to discourage use of the lanes; likewise tolls will decrease
to encourage use of the lanes without creating congestion. 

Southwest Research Institute

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

Swarms of Micro Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) depart their replenishment
bases to cover pre-programmed sectors of a metropolis urban area to support
peak-time transportation management tasks. Forest Management Rangers
launch UAVs to detect fires and precisely report smoke and fire locations. Coast
Guard managers launch UAVs capable of  surveillance, identification, and
neutralization of watercraft incursions, and to provide Homeland Security in
maritime areas. Emergency Management and Traffic Management Engineers
request UAV surveillance  support for hurricane and other natural disaster
evacuations, and to provide real-time traffic surveillance for decision makers.
Law Enforcement officials request that UAVs with special tracking equipment be
deployed to provide surveillance intelligence for support of law enforcement
initiative.

Florida DOT

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, April 26 - 28, 2004 San Antonio, Texas

The city of Chandler uses ITS systems to monitor and control traffic from a central Traffic
Management Center(TMC). The City has a fully automated system that includes full streaming video,
rea-ltime detection and timing plan adjustment through an open architecture web based access
system. This paper details the key elements of the City system that allow Chandler to be a model for
ITS deployment, using ITS to save time and money.

Debra Bieber, PE

Ben McCawley

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

This paper introduces an estimation method of congestion length using up-link information of
infrared beacons and its verification result. The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has
provided congestion length as a kind of traffic information through traffic information boards, radios
and car navigation systems. The MPD measures the congestion length using the traffic information
collected by vehicle detectors. But it is so difficult to install the vehicle detector at most of the tunnels,
bridges, etc that the MPD couldn’t figure out the congestion length there. Therefore, the MPD
developed a new estimation method of the congestion length using up-link information of infrared
beacons and introduced it to the STREAM, our traffic control system, in 2008. This method enables
us to predict the congestion length with only installing the infrared beacons at both ends of any
sections of the road which you want to.

Traffic Facilities and Control Division, Traffic Bureau, Metropolitan Police Department

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

Th paeper presents a qualitative evaluation of the New York State proof-of-concept
project for electronic credentialing, the One Stop Credentialing and Registration Project
(OSCAR). The evaluation was conducted on behalf of the I-95 Corridor Coalition and
the Federal Highway Administration’s Joint Program Office through the ITS Program
Assessment Support Primary Contract No. DTFH61-96-C-00098, Task 9808.
An overview of the I-95 Corridor Coalition’s CVO program and the methodology used to
conduct the evaluation are presented in the Sections 1 and 2 of the paper. Sections 3 and
4 summarize the organization of the New York State motor carrier program and current
credentialing processes. A detailed description of the OSCAR project is presented in
Section 5.

Science Applications International Corporation

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, April 29-May 2, 2002, Long Beach, California