Cross-cutting Issues

The City and County of San Francisco’s SFgo Program is nearing completion of the design of a new State of the Art Transportation Management Center. As part of this process, a robust video and data system had to be designed that would meet the needs of the Department of Parking and Traffic operators, as well as linking in with the ITS field devices to be implemented as part of the overall Program’s Initial Phase.

This paper presents the video and data system that will be constructed as part of the Initial Phase, including the specific components within the control room and equipment room of the Transportation Management Center (TMC). Since the system will consist of an all-digital, all-Internet Protocol (IP) network operating over Ethernet, including digitized and encoded video, there are several options to consider when bringing the information to the TMC and sharing it with other City departments and regional and state partners. In addition, the system had to be flexible to accommodate changes to configurations during future phases, with a special emphasis on web-based applications for information sharing.

DKS Associates

City and County of San Francisco

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, May 19-22, 2003 Minneapolis, Minnesota

The research presents an evaluation framework and plan that provides a systematic method for assessing the potential impacts associated with the project by defining objectives, measures, analysis recommendations, and data requirements. In developing the evaluation framework, both qualitative and quantitative objectives and measures are defined. The objectives include factors such as service reliability, service efficiency, and customer satisfaction. The framework developed specifically addresses the ITS investment on the OmniLink local route deviation bus service in Prince William County, Virginia, but could be used as a basis for the evaluation of similar ITS investments. The OmniLink ITS investment includes an automatic vehicle location (AVL) system, mobile data terminals (MDTs), and computer-aided dispatch (CAD)technology.

Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC)

Virginia Tech

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, May 19-22, 2003 Minneapolis, Minnesota

This paper defines rural ITS needs in Florida and discusses how rural ITS needs can be integrated with urban and regional ITS needs leading to a total integrated statewide ITS plan”. It is also the intention of this paper to also determine rural ITS priorities and geographical areas of focus in Florida based on the extent of documented problems and existing development strategies in rural areas. The rationale for development strategy illustrated in this paper can followed by other states not having a plan for rural ITS applications.

Center for Urban Transportation Research (CUTR): University of South Florida – College of Engineering

Florida Department of Transportation

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, June 4-7, 2001 Miami Beach, Florida

The end of the design phase is considered to be the end of the project for many design engineers; however, for an ITS project to be successful the end of the design phase should almost be considered the beginning. The advanced technical components of an ITS project require that the design engineer be heavily involved throughout the entire construction and integration process. A wide range of construction management tasks are necessary to ensure the project's schedule, budget and quality.

Gresham, Smith & Partners

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, May 19-22, 2003 Minneapolis, Minnesota

In 2001, VDOT entered into a public-private partnership with a Virginia-based company called TrafficLand to develop and deploy a system to disseminate real-time traffic camera imagery to the public over the Internet. Through the TrafficLand web site, travelers can select cameras from any of the four major transportation agencies in the region (VDOT, DCDOT, Maryland SHA and Montgomery County, MD) for free. The events of September 11, 2001 generated an intense effort on the part of VDOT, and its regional partners, to determine how to improve access to the regional traffic video. VDOT led an effort to develop an architecture that would ensure access to the video by public transportation management, safety and emergency management agencies in the region not only to improve daily operations but also to serve as a resource during periods of emergency. The result is a unique regional video distribution system that makes use of the systems and relationships developed for the public Internet web site to distribute the video at high speed to regional transportation, transit, public safety and emergency management agencies on a fee-for-service basis.

Virginia DOT

TrafficLand, Inc.

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, May 19-22, 2003 Minneapolis, Minnesota