Commercial Operations

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

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

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

During the last three years, The Public Road Administration in Norway has outsourced road
building and maintenance, has been re-organised, and has developed some interesting modern
IT-solutions for public services.
The public services are available on our websites as well as news and information such as road
plans, noise and air pollution along roads, general road information, weather information,
emergency services, congestion etc.
On the Internet customers can now apply for driver’s licences, car owners can book vehicle
inspections, car companies can send registration of vehicles, and transport companies can send
applications for dispensations for heavy, high, wide or long vehicles. The public can use route
planners based on our detailed electronic road net. This is a very popular ITS-solution. The
public is also happy about our automatic payment system for toll roads.
Available for both the public and for the employees, are a National Road data base “NRDB”,
based on our ITS-solutions and a data catalogue with information about state and municipal
roads, road traffic, all stops and terminals, land owners, landscape and more. The National
Road databank brings maps onto our desk tops efficiently.

The Norwegian Public Roads Administration

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

This paper investigated the questions existing in public transit system of big cities such as low
speed, unpunctuality etc, and the current situation on energy tension, the urban environment
deterioration and the soil resource scarcity is also analyzed. Then based on the idea of multi-mode
transport, a new trip mode of urban traffic is put forward: Rapid Transit System & Bicycle System
(R&B, abbr.). The current car development policy in some cities should be reconsidered according
to the actual situation nowadays. Moreover, the implementation of R&B trip mode is significant to
reduce energy, resource consumption and environment contamination; furthermore it is important to
build an integrated urban traffic system on primary of public traffic and to keep the harmonious
development of all the industries.

Beijing University of Technology

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