Commercial Operations

Transportation agencies considering the deployment of technology devices to support
either operations or maintenance activities often must perform cost/benefit analyses
during the planning and design phase. While the costs of these devices are easily
quantified, it is often difficult to assign dollar value equivalents to the benefits of such
devices. The ENTERPRISE Pooled Fund Study ‘Warrants Project’ has investigated
the concept of warrants to determine whether technology devices (specifically ITS
devices) should be considered for deployment at specific locations. This project was
a pilot study to explore the feasibility of warrants for technology devices. Six state
DOTs, one Canadian province, and the Dutch DOT have participated in development
and testing of these warrants. This paper summarizes the testing results and the
concept for ongoing use of the warrants.

Athey Creek Consultants

Minnesota Department of Transportation

Washington State Department of Transportation

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

This paper explores policy issues pertaining to State DOTs deploying high speed
telecommunication (HST) infrastructure along Interstate highway rights-of-way (ROW).
Under SAFETEA-LU, Congress directed the United States Department of Transportation
(U.S. DOT) to prepare a “Rural Interstate Corridor Communications Study”. The purpose of
the study was to articulate the “feasibility of installing fiber optic cabling and wireless
communication infrastructure along multistate Interstate System route corridors for improved
communications services to rural communities along such corridors”. Three rural corridors, I-
90, I-91, and I-20, were analyzed to determine the feasibility to implement high speed
telecommunications. The patchy pattern of advanced telecommunications backbone
installation along each of the study corridors illustrates two realities. First, there remain many
legal and regulatory constraints to coordinated longitudinal installation of advanced
telecommunications backbone in ROW along interstate highway corridors. Second, these
legal and regulatory challenges are not insurmountable.

Federal Highway Administration

Cambridge Systematics, Inc.

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

WiMax, which uses the IEEE 802.16 standard, is considered the ‘next generation’
wireless standard following WiFi, which was based on IEEE 802.11. WiMax includes true
Quality of Service (QoS) with extensive security built into the protocol, along with flexibility
in application. These protocol features, inherent in Tyco Electronics’ VIDA Broadband
WiMax product will be described and contrasted to WiFi. An application using this
technology integrated into a system providing traffic monitoring for an Interstate Highway
Corridor is presented. Traffic flow can be monitored, with video available for traffic
management personnel. Several options for traffic sensing will be discussed.

Tyco Electronics

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

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

Within the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) field, many applications of a diverse nature
are considered and thus their communication requirements differ significantly. This makes it
difficult for one wireless carrier to support all or most of these applications. Therefore, we have
complied a list of communication requirements for future ITS applications and used it to analyze
different ITS applications as well as different wireless carriers. Accordingly, the applications can
be grouped into different requirements profiles with recommended wireless carriers assigned to
each profile. The concept of profiling can also be used to classify the applications according to
their non-technical requirements and hence accelerate their future deployment by encouraging
involved stakeholders to make the most common requirements available. It can also be useful
when developing a roadmap for deployment of future ITS applications defining which
application will most likely be implemented first.

University of Twente

Ericsson AB

Halmstad University

Volvo Technology Corporation

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