Commercial Operations

Buffalo County has an ITS project implementation underway encompassing a brokered public
transportation system in South Central Nebraska. As a part of this project discussions with
FHWA led the project partners to want to develop a project ITS architecture that would meet
federal guidelines established in the rule for conformity with the National ITS Architecture that
went into effect on April 8, 2001. The Division Office of FHWA requested support in this effort
from the Midwestern Resource Center of FHWA and several meetings were planned to aid the
local partners in their efforts. In the first of these meetings a need to address the more regional
issues of a regional ITS architecture were identified. The stakeholders decided to move forward
with the development of a regional architecture that would include the project architecture for the
ITS project that was already underway.
This paper will outline the partners in the ITS project, the project itself, and discuss the
development of the project and regional architectures. The architecture development is still
underway at the time of this writing. The schedule calls for completion during the year of 2002.

Federal Highway Administration

R.Y.D.E Transit

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, April 29-May 2, 2002, Long Beach, California

The City of Tampere in central Finland, Europe, together with neighboring municipalities,
form a region of about 350.000 citizens, from which more than 200.000 citizens live in the
City of Tampere. The region has since the beginning of 1990’s actively developed through
public-private partnerships and co-operation some of the Europe’s leading ITS services for
citizens and private & public organizations. Examples of these advanced services are: GPSpositioning and priority system for buses and emergency vehicles, real-time public transport
information displays at bus stops and main public places, mobile and web based public
transport information for travelers, multi-purpose smart cards for public transport, libraries,
swimming arenas etc, public transport journey planner, journey planner for cyclists, voice
recognition and text message based timetable information, real-time parking place
information, warning system for trucks approaching low bridges, boat/ferry connection
information displays, taxi and demand responsive dispatching systems, real-time traffic
information portal that collects data from floating cars, fixed measurement points and traffic
lights and combines all the traffic data in the city and many more. In the spring 2007 the
different stakeholders; ITS service providers, hardware suppliers, software suppliers,
consultancies, universities and authorities decided to establish an open co-operation network
to promote and co-ordinate the existing and future development and implementation activities
in the City of Tampere and the surrounding region in a more organized and effective manner.
Thus all the development activities could benefit from and support each other and make
Tampere one of the main cities and test-beds in the world in the field of advanced ITS
systems.

WSP Finland Ltd.

Mobisoft Ltd.

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

The Michigan Department of Transportation recently completed the ITS architectures and
predeployment plans for five of the State’s seven DOT regions. These studies were collaborative
efforts that involved a wide range of stakeholders. Most of the facilities covered in these studies
were in either rural regions or small urban areas. Needs identified by the stakeholders and
proposed solutions differed in many ways from those proposed for major urban areas. Since
there is little history of benefit-cost analysis for these deployments, and the proposed projects
exceeded available funding, the project team had to develop techniques for evaluating the costeffectiveness of alternative investments. This paper describes some of the alternatives developed in four of the study regions and some of the techniques developed for evaluation. It also discusses data required to improve the accuracy and viability of these techniques.

Cambridge Systematics, Inc.

Michigan Department of Transportation

Kimley-Horn and Associates

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

Due to the increase of traffic demand, current traffic facilities are not sufficient to
accommodate the dramatic increase in traffic volume during peak hours, especially for the
left-turn demand on traditional diamond interchanges. To deal with this problem, one of the
solutions is to replace the traditional diamond interchange with the Diverging Diamond
Interchange (DDI) design. This study aims to conduct the preliminary study on a series of
design and operation topics related to the DDI  design with respect to safety and efficiency
followed by a case study of a new DDI design in Kansas City, MO.

University of Missouri, Kansas City

HNTB Corporation

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

The Lower Manhattan Development Corporation (LMDC) was established in late 2001 to
develop and revitalize Lower Manhattan in the aftermath of the September 11,2001
terroist attacks including the World Trade Center Memorial and Cultural Program.
 
LMDC is a subsidiary of the New York State Urban Development Corporation, doing
business as Empire State Development Corporation (ESDC) and is govern by a board of
sixteen members, eight of whom are nominated by the Governor of the State of New
York and eight of whom were nominated by the Mayor of the City of New York.  LMDC
is funded by federal appropriations administered by the United States Department of
Housing and Urban Development (HUD).

JHK

New York City Department of Transportation

Lower Manhattan Construction Command Center

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