Cross-cutting Issues

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2000 Microsoft Corporation

Presented at the 11th ITS Annual Conference and Exposition, June 4-7, 2001 Miami Beach, Florida

The federal ITS program has been oriented to fund large-scale integrated transportation management systems as demonstration of a broad range of ITS functions. For the most part, state ITS programs have evolved from these large urban demonstration projects, with significant program champions and substantial federal investment. While beneficial to showcase ITS potential, cost containment, cost effectiveness, and scalability have not always been a major focus of the federal ITS program. Thus, the program has a significant gap: ITS deployment in small- to medium-sized American cities. It is relatively easy for a state to support one large urban ITS system—as did Washington (Smart Trek) and Georgia (Navigator). But given the expense of such systems, how can states be expected to build and operate them in their far more numerous, smaller urban areas?

Policy makers at both the federal and state levels need to review their ITS programs to answer the following questions: Do smaller urban areas experience significant traffic congestion? Can they benefit from traffic management/incident management programs? If so, how can they afford the capital outlay an ongoing operations cost necessary to provide such services? This paper suggests that traffic problems in small-to medium-sized urban areas is real; the principles of incident management are universal; and there is great potential to economize technology investments for system operations, while still realizing substantial benefits.

Ohio Department of Transportation

PB Farradyne

Presented at the 11th ITS Annual Conference and Exposition, June 4-7, 2001 Miami Beach, Florida

This paper describes the situations of Intelligent Transport Systems (ITS hereinafter) in developing countries, especially Asian countries and a study of recommended approaches to introduce ITS in a provisional country. So far, ITS has been regarded as a system for the developed countries. However, looking at traffic problems such as accidents and congestion, we recognize that developing countries have the same or worse situations compared to the developed countries.

ITS America

Kobe University - Graduate School of Science and Technology

Presented at the 10th ITS Annual Conference and Exposition, May 1-4, 2000 Boston, MA

As ITS projects increasingly move into the deployment stage, the issue of software and system development practices becomes ever more critical. Virtually every transportation management system is now dependent on mission critical software for its proper functioning. Problems with large (and even medium scale) software development projects are legendary, running the gamut from cost overruns and major schedule delays, to the more critical issues of system safety, reliability and security. As a project advances further into its life cycle, solutions for design and coding errors become more complex and therefore more costly. The sad fact is that although these errors are largely preventable through the art of requirements management, this art is too often misunderstood and misapplied. Worse, in some cases there is no recognizable effort that is applied towards this key step of systems engineering.

National Engineering Technology Corporation

Presented at the 10th ITS Annual Conference and Exposition, May 1-4, 2000 Boston, MA

“Specialty vehicles” are vehicle types that are outfitted for special purposes. Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technology provides a potentially large benefit to the drivers of specialty vehicles through the use of in-vehicle information systems (IVIS). A preliminary assessment was performed to ascertain the need for in-vehicle information systems (IVIS) in law enforcement specialty vehicles. High-level task analyses were generated for general incident response scenarios. The task analyses were used to find similarities among the response scenarios such that major safety problems or inefficiencies in protocol could be identified. For the problems that were identified, these items were listed in order of priority as tasks that would potentially gain the greatest benefit by incorporation into an IVIS. Finally, a list of stakeholders was generated for a full-scale needs assessment.

Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

Presented at the 11th ITS Annual Conference and Exposition, June 4-7, 2001 Miami Beach, Florida