Cross-cutting Issues

The objective of this task is to complete a moderately detailed, planning-level analysis of the benefits of deployed and proposed intelligent transportation systems (ITS) elements in the Kansas City metropolitan region. The ITS is operated by Kansas City Scout, an organization funded jointly by the Missouri and Kansas Departments of Transportation (DOT). Scout’s Traffic Management Center is located at the Missouri DOT’s District Headquarters in Lee’s Summit, Missouri. Scout’s objectives in this analysis were to document the benefits of the existing system, as well as new elements that currently are being planned. The analysis uses the metropolitan planning organization (MPO) travel demand models for the region which were supplied by the Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) and incorporated into the ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS). IDAS is a tool developed specifically for benefit/cost analysis of ITS deployments.

Kansas City Scout Traffic Center Manager

Cambridge Systematics

Paper submitted for publication and presentation at the ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition

This paper presents a concept that combines active traffic management and credit-based congestion pricing to create Flexible and Efficient Express (FEE) toll-credit lanes that could be implemented in a shorter period of time than normal new lanes by using existing freeway rights-of-way. A network of free-flowing FEE lanes could be created by re-striping freeways to convert the general-purpose lane(s) on the far left into FEE lanes during rush hours, and creating a dynamic rush-hour shoulder travel lane for general-purpose use on the right side to replace the converted left general-purpose lane. To ensure public acceptance, a limited quota of credits could be made available to all employees in the metropolitan area for use of the FEE lanes. The paper also discusses alternative region-wide freeway pricing concepts, their costs and benefits, and their financial impacts.

Federal Highway Administration

Paper submitted for publication and presentation at the ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition

It is foreseen that vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communication systems will be deployed in the next decade. Data security is an enabler for V2V and V2I communication to guarantee authenticity, integrity and confidentiality of exchanged messages. Furthermore, privacy of the participants must be ensured. While there are mechanisms available to provide protection against operational failures, data security provides protection against malicious attacks motivated by ill will. Data security enables trustable safety applications and thus results in fruitful business model revenue. Unfortunately, designing and implementing data security as well as privacy in V2X is not a trivial task but needs to be considered carefully. In this article we describe the work previously done in this area, and the work that needs to be done in the future. In particular it is described what needs to be done to standardize the solutions of vehicular data security for interoperability among the various manufacturers and parties involved.

escrypt Inc.

Paper submitted for publication and presentation at the ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition

The open source concept, which originated in the late 1990’s, leverages collective action
among multiple researchers to work collaboratively on complex problems. When properly
structured open source research and software development has the potential to be more costeffective
and productive than proprietary, closed source efforts. Open source communities
that coordinate and facilitate collective action, although common in mainstream information
technology development, are relatively new to the transportation community. This paper
documents the lessons learned from two open source communities that Noblis helped the
Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) establish for the TRANSIMS (Transportation
Analysis and Simulation System) and NGSIM (Next Generation Simulation) programs. The
paper identifies the common pitfalls to a successful open source community. The challenges
documented in this paper are timely and valuable as grant-making organizations and federal
agencies increasingly adopt the open source concepts in both transportation research and
software development programs.

Noblis

Paper submitted for publication and presentation at the ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition

Lessons from the ITS Lessons Learned Knowledge Resource Web site are based on the experience of stakeholders from numerous ITS projects and programs and collected from case studies, best practice compendiums, planning and design reviews, and evaluation studies from the U.S. and abroad. A major focus of the Web site is to produce lessons which would benefit stakeholders across a range of ITS areas, including the broad range of legal issues associated with ITS programs and projects. This paper presents a synthesis of lessons learned about legal issues. The lessons learned on legal issues discuss intellectual property, liability, privacy, and rules and regulations as they relate to the design and deployment of ITS, with the goal of improving the safety, mobility, efficiency, and reliability of the Nation's transportation infrastructure.

Noblis, Inc.

Paper submitted for publication and presentation at the ITS America’s 2009 Annual Meeting and Exposition