Cross-cutting Issues

The 11th World Congress on Intelligent Transport System (ITS) held in 2004 in Nagoya was
considered as the first congress with the participation of citizens. As our institute locating in
Toyota City which is regarded as one of the most smart ITS towns in Japan, we organized a
series of seminars on ITS for the citizens living in Toyota City or the towns around. In this
paper, firstly we will report about the seminars. Then the results of questionnaires will be
reported. Further, the evaluation of the regional ITS in Toyota Region, the wants and needs of
users for ITS and effects of increasing the public awareness will analyzed. Finally, we will
make a summary for what we have achieved from this series of seminars.

Toyota Transportation Research Institute

TTRI, Japan

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California

Congestion pricing is an important tool for managing demand and providing improved mobility.
Through the Urban Partners program, the United States Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) has provided substantial grant funding to six sites in the U.S. to deploy a variety of congestion pricing and supporting strategies. These deployments provide a unique opportunity to demonstrate the impact and cost-effectiveness of congestion pricing as well as gauge the public’s reaction to pricing and document the lessons learned by the deployers. This paper describes the U. S. DOT plans for evaluating the Urban Partner deployments, including the key questions to be answered, evaluation methodologies, and the anticipated schedule.

Battelle

Research and Innovative Technology Administration

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

Much has been written about how mass transit operators can use social media to benefit their agencies. This paper highlights some of these advantages but mostly focuses on some of the issues that keep organizations from getting started with social media. These may include concerns about technical requirements, the digital divide and access for people with disabilities, staff management, controlling the conversation, cyber-security, and record-keeping requirements. These concerns are examined and strategies for addressing them are presented, based largely on the experience of other transportation organizations in the U.S. and Canada.

Oak Square Resources, LLC

Presented at the 18th World Congress on ITS, October 2011, Orlando, Florida

Presented at the 18th World Congress on ITS, October 2011, Orlando, Florida

While the main buzz in ITS communications networks is  for “more bandwidth” using
fiber optics, one City in California chose to upgrade their system based entirely on a
wireless network  (spread spectrum)  with Model 2070 controllers.   While this  wireless
technology has been around for some time now, designing such a system requires a lot of
initial background effort during the design, and flexibility on the part of the owning
agency.  Issues such as repeater sites,  copper-to-wireless interfaces,  site and path
analysis, antenna separation distances  and lengths of antenna cabling  all need to be
considered during the design.   This paper discusses the overview of that system and
describes the main challenges in designing and implementing a spread spectrum system
including some “best practices”.

DKS Associates

City of Camarillo

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, April 26 - 28, 2004 San Antonio, Texas

Two classes of detectors are compared for suitability of use for dilemma zone protection in this
chapter: the wide area detector (WAD) and the point detector. WADs provide the ability to
simultaneously monitor the passage of each vehicle within a wide area and selectively influence
signal phase timings based upon operational objectives related to measurements such as position, speed, and count. Point detectors are usually loop detectors that influence signal phase timings based upon the presence of a vehicle at a fixed location. Point detectors are ubiquitously deployed for volume density operations, detection of congested traffic, and dilemma zone protection. In this paper both detector types are examined in relation to dilemma zone protection. The results of this paper show a significant potential improvement in safety and efficiency of operation of isolated intersection by using an reliable WAD as dilemma zone detector. The second part of the paper investigates the performance of a radar based wide area detection technology and in third part investigates the potential improvements that can be made to the existing technology by using additional information from camera sensors.

Authors: Anuj Sharma, Mauricio Casares, Senem Velipasalar, Darcy Bullock, Srinivas Peeta

Presented at the 18th World Congress on ITS, October 2011, Orlando, Florida