Commercial Operations

Launching a road pricing scheme is challenging. Trying to make sure that a set of schemes
work together is even harder. But if this is approached with the appropriate rigour and logic, it
can be achieved. What’s more, setting out a framework which prospective scheme operators
can use helps save time and money, while offering consistent solutions that can readily be
understood by users. This paper builds on work the author has been progressing with the U.K.
Department for Transport (DfT).

Road Pricing Chief Technical Architect for U.K. Department for Transport

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

In recent years, road owners have shown an increased interest in implementing road user
charging schemes based not on the traditional tag and beacon technology known from
highway tolling, but instead using autonomous onboard equipment, capable of measuring road
usage without the assistance of omnipresent road side equipment. This change in technology
makes the earlier approach to interoperability insufficient, and a new set of principles must be
established. This paper presents a set of such principles and how they can work to create
incentives for actors to prioritize interoperability, while at the same time provide for
continuous innovation and competition in the marketplace.

Royal Institute of Technology

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

In the early 2000s The Turkish General Directorate of Highways set an ambitious goal of
achieving predominantly automatic tolling on its national highway network by the year 2008.
This paper describes how after Turkey started with the conventional manual toll collection
systems, and the successful adoptions of the state-of-the-art full automatic ETC and
contactless smart card tolling technologies.

ASELSAN A.
., SST Traffic Systems Dept., TURKEY

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

The Integrated Incident Management System (IIMS) is a multi-agency incident management
project deployed in New York City, funded and managed by New York State Department of
Transportation (NYSDOT). The USDOT added support to the IIMS project as part of the
Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Public Safety Program. Federal transportation funds
have supported IIMS from the following sources; the USDOT Joint Program Office (JPO) as
a national demonstration project, Congestion Mitigation and Air Quality (CMAQ) and I-95
Corridor Coalition funding. It has been successfully evaluated by SAIC on behalf of USDOT.
It is being utilized in New York City to share information and coordinate incident response
between field responders and operation centers in real-time. IIMS utilizes the IEEE-1512
standard for server communication. Recently, work has been done to make IIMS
interoperable w i t h systems utilizing a different communication standard (TMDD FEU).
Although both standards fill a different need and contain a number of different data elements,
there is information common to both of them. A lot of lessons have been learned in trying to
communicate that shared information.

New York State Department of Transportation

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

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

The Transit Communications Interface Profiles (TCIP) standard is the transit component of
the ITS family of standards and was adopted as a balloted American Public Transportation
Association (APTA) standard in August, 2006. TCIP standardizes transit data definitions,
formats and exchange procedures between components employed in transit systems. This
paper provides an overview of how TCIP can be utilized in a transit system between
subsystems such as Scheduling, Passenger Information, Central and Onboard systems.
APTA’s plans to help move TCIP from the standards development realm to deployment
within the transit industry include supporting a series of initial TCIP implementations (pilot
programs), the continued development and support of software tools to aid in the use of
TCIP, and the development of a training program to educate potential users in the benefits
and implementation details of TCIP. The TCIP standard, as well as the TIRCE support
software application, can be downloaded free of charge from http://aptatcip.
arinc.net/log/login.mcgi.

Critical Link, LLC

Ayers Electronic Systems, LLC

American Public Transportation Association (APTA)

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