Commercial Operations

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

Although ASFINAG, Austria’s motorway operator, has a relatively modern traffic management system based on fixed location gantries with variable message signs, the future of traffic management lies within the domain of I2V communication. Realizing that, ASFINAG decided to take part in the COOPERS project, a large scale European research project which focuses on co-operative traffic management. Its goal is to establish safety related service communication using two-way communication between road infrastructure and vehicles. This paper describes the efforts taken by ASFINAG to implement these services within its systems and its road infrastructure, with special emphasis on the transformation from sensor data to meaningful COOPERS service messages.

ASFINAG Maut Service GmbH

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

The purpose of the Vehicle Assist and Automation (VAA) Transit Operating Scenario Analysis
was to provide a framework to analyze the cost effectiveness of implementing VAA applications
in various transit operating environments. This analysis was used to develop an overall VAA
Program Plan and Route Map that will be submitted as a potential Tier I Initiative under the ITS
Management Council. This report is part of the overall VAA Tier II Exploratory effort the
purpose of which was to achieve consensus on appropriate future research in VAA technologies
for transit vehicles. There are two important reports that support this analysis. They are the VAA
Systems for Transit Operations Synthesis White Paper (literature review) and the Program Plan
and Route Map for Proposed Tier 1. Other products included materials for two stakeholder
workshops and two DVDs of VAA deployments overseas (Japanese Transit Technologies and
the European Scanning Tour).

Mitretek Systems

Federal Transit Administration

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

This paper investigates Value of travel time (VOTT) of commuters traveling on PANYNJ toll
facilities in the presence of time-of-day pricing. The methodology proposed to estimate VOTT
develops Bayesian random-coefficient multinomial logit models (BRC-MNL) using travel
surveys conducted as a part of (3). The proposed approach is a novel way used to examine the
commuters’ behavior based on more flexible model specifications. Empirical results show that
travel time, toll, income, and departure time are statistically significant parameters affecting
VOTT of PANYNJ toll facility commuters. Mean VOTT estimates are found to be around
16.5$/hr for E-ZPass peak users, and around 15.15$/hr for E-ZPass off-peak users, with standard
deviation estimates close to 6.45 $/hr during peak periods and 5.72 $/hr during off-peak hours.
When compared with NJTPK commuters, the estimation results show a similar behavior.

Rutgers University

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

Increasing concern over the potential impacts of accidents or terrorist acts involving the
movement of hazardous materials has created a need to more actively track and manage this
type of traffic. Oliver Wyman is working with a North American Class I railroad to develop
software that will generate improved information on hazmat movements. The software, a
combination of two systems, the Traffic Flow Analyzer (TFA) and MultiRail® Enterprise
Edition (MR-EE), allows the user to understand historic hazmat movement densities and
patterns, analyze network consequences for route changes, and to quickly see the current
locations and paths of active shipments. The railroad user will be able to generate flow maps,
charts, and statistical tables for underlying traffic flows and shipment records at any point in
time. Transportation safety and national security issues warrant that this form of information
be readily available in an easy-to-use format and that its development is integrated with the
regular operational planning process. We hope to show that the TFA and ME-EE software
tools will at least partially answer this need.

Oliver Wyman, Inc.

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