Commercial Operations

The SCOOT Urban Traffic Control system is now operating in over 200 cities and towns
worldwide. Since the first system was installed there has been a continuous program of
research and development to provide new facilities which take into account new technology
and meet the requirements of the traffic manager. This paper reports on a new version
SCOOT MC3 which has recently been released. SCOOT has been modified to use timestamped
data which should allow for small time delays in communications between the UTC
software and Outstation Transmission Units (OTU) whilst maintaining the excellent level of
traffic control. This should increase the range of communication options available and in
particular allow the use of some of the newer data communications systems which are packet
based. A congestion supervisor has been developed which should afford the operator a better
understanding of the congestion occurring in the network. This should enable the limited
resources within local authorities to be used efficiently and facilitate the use of the extensive
congestion management tools available in SCOOT. Other new developments effect how
SCOOT operates in providing bus priority and in controlling puffin pedestrian crossings.

Transport Research Laboratory, UK

Siemens Traffic Controls, UK

Peek Traffic Ltd, UK

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

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

Galileo is one of the biggest investments ever made by European Governments and Industry.
The services that Galileo will help provide are a vital tool in meeting the requirements of both
the Common Transport Policy and National Policies in road transport.
This paper will present the initial findings of the GREAT (Galileo: Research on Effects And
impacts on road Transport) study, conducted on behalf of the European Commission Joint
Research Centre.

FaberMaunsell

Martial Chevreuil, ISIS, France
Michael Schmidt, ICCR, Austria
Panayotis Christidis
European Commission, Directorate General Joint Research Centre, Spain

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

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

An original, futuristic, permission-based-access, automated, gated parking system design for a
large office park is described. The proposed system uses WiFi cellular phones as the primary
access technology, license plate recognition via image processing as the secondary technology,
keypad entry as the third technology, and verbal interchange as the last resort. The office park
encompasses 20,000 employees and has 132 access points to parking lots. The strict access
policy creates a high security office park. Implementation cost is estimated at $5.9M. A $0.50
per day parking charge per car is proposed, generating $1.9M per year in offsetting revenue.

Cities21

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