Commercial Operations

We are at a point in the life of the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) movement
that poor, non-responsive and inadequate support by our traffic and transportation
management centers (TMC), traffic control centers (TCC) and traffic operations centers
(TOC) will not be tolerated. We can no longer hide behind the mantra that we are just
learning the game. If we are to assume our rightful place in the area of providing quality
support to our citizenry we must be able to quickly provide the results of accurate and
timely data collection, possess an efficient and through data analysis capability,
demonstrate an ability to make cogent and informed decisions, rapidly disseminate the
results of these decisions and subsequently, check on the results of the decisions. In short,
we are expected to have all of the aspects of a decision support system in place, be ready
to provide enhanced traffic management capabilities as well as meet the emerging
requirement to provide efficient and timely support to the Principal Responding Agencies
(PRA) on the hook to respond to the full range of weather-related/natural disasters, man-
caused incidents and events and military operations.

Viasys Corporation

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

Holding 2008 Summer Olympic Games will provide Beijing with golden opportunity of
development. However, it is also a challenge for Beijing to face, taking transportation as an
example. Referencing the successful experiences from Sydney, Australia and Atlanta, USA in
using ITS technology in dealing with transportation problems during the Games, it is found that
there is a necessity for Beijing to develop workable ITS framework to help handle
transportation problems that may occur during the 2008 Games. The objective of this study is
to explore and develop an approach of identifying the ITS architecture that can be utilized by
Beijing Olympic Transportation Committee as a tool to deal with traffic-related issues. This
architecture is developed based on the Turbo Architecture, which is software developed in USA.
The user service, components in ITS, market package, and physical architecture have been
identified and determined in accord with the characteristics of the Olympics and strategic plan
of Beijing ITS development and deployment in future.

Transportation Research Center, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, China

Beijing Municipal Commission of Communications, Beijing, China

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

This paper describes the implementation of a Telematics application on the strategically
important road corridor between Belfast in Northern Ireland and Dublin in the Republic of
Ireland. The acronym for the project is INSTANT (Information and Management System for
Multimodal Transport in the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland). The objective of the
project was to provide traffic control, monitoring and travel information over the 160km
length of the corridor. The facilities installed include CCTV, journey time estimation using
ANPR, roadside variable message signs and data exchange using DATEX 2 protocols
between the traffic control centres in Belfast and Dublin. The project was part funded by a
grant from the INTERREG IIIA programme.

Traffic Information and Control Centre

National Roads Authority

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

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration’s (FMCSA) safety goal is to reduce the
number and severity of crashes involving commercial motor vehicles. One way to improve
highway safety is through the expanded deployment and use of effective intelligent
transportation systems onboard commercial motor vehicles to prevent crashes. Over the past
several years, FMCSA and the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) have worked
together with the trucking industry to test, evaluate, and encourage the deployment of several
onboard safety systems to increase the safety of all roadway users. This paper provides an
overview of the steps taken in a collaborative technology transfer and deployment program that
facilitates information exchange with stakeholders in the motor carrier industry to accelerate the
deployment of onboard safety systems.

American Transportation Research Institute

FMCSA

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

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