Commercial Operations

Reversible Managed Lanes coupled with Time Managed Shoulder Lanes incorporate two
concepts into one to create a flexible driving environment that results in increased
capacity and reliability for motorists, HOV vehicles, and BRT transit vehicles. It couples
the use of reversible flow lanes and utilization of shoulders for additional roadway
capacity that can be used in times of high traffic volumes or during times with traffic
incidents. The use of this concept will provide an additional 25% of (total) roadway
capacity on the same roadway width.

Jacobs Engineering

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

Traffic Radio is a 24x7 traffic information service launched in England in July 2007.
This paper gives an overview of the service and the technical, political and
commercial environment in which it was launched. The distribution channels: Digital
Audio Broadcast (DAB), internet and event based temporary AM or FM broadcasts
are assessed against research of driver behaviour and other market research in order to
measure their effectiveness in reaching road users and influencing their behaviour.
Based on the first 12 months of operations, conclusions are presented that will enable
others to judge whether or not this British model for delivering traffic information to
road users is a success or failure.

Consulting Stream Limited

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

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

Transit and other transport operators in Portland, Oregon should plan to use contactless credit
card transactions to reduce costs, create a convenience for users, and enable riders to make
more rational travel choices. Growing support for radio frequency identification (RFID) in
the finance industry creates opportunities for unprecedented public-private partnerships in
this area.

Portland State University

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

There are many challenges in the performance evaluation of floating car technologies,
especially for cellular probe-based systems. Using floating test vehicles for reference data will
show good performance of the detection system under test, even if the detection system
completely fails to detect slowdown events, when averaged for a long time. Slowdown
detection latency is the most important factor, which should be benchmarked against road
sensors only during times of speed fluctuations. This paper summarizes the queries, results
and conclusions which were identified and reached by Cellint Traffic Solutions ("Cellint")
based on its experience and as validated by independent evaluations by departments of
transportation and road operators.

Cellint Traffic Solutions

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