Cross-cutting Issues

This paper describes the New York State Department of Transportation (NYSDOT)
Information Exchange Network (IEN) being developed to satisfy NYSDOT regional and
statewide needs for information sharing and access.  The integration is being accomplished
under a series of contracts from the NYS Department of Transportation (NYSDOT). The
broad objectives of the project are to deploy a standards-based network for connecting the
diverse statewide information systems responsible for public safety, traffic management, and
public works. The IEN deployment has evolved over a period of 4 years.

General Dynamics Advanced Information Systems

New York State Department of Transportation

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

The family of International Standards for CALM (Communication Architecture for Land
Mobile environment) are the new ISO-Standards for car-to-car and car-to-infrastructure
communication. While Cellular or Metropolitan Area Networks contributes the WAN-
connectivity covers Microwave-LANs the mid-range. Infrared adds finally the capability to
communicate in predefined directions and to detect the communication-distance to the partner
by time-of-light measurement.

An essential key requirement of future ITS communication is the ability to set up "ad-hoc
connections" and to transmit KBytes of data in a few milliseconds. The most crucial and time
consuming part in a multinode environment is the link-setup procedure, especially in a free
space situation with unpredictable and fast changing link conditions. Infrared communication
has outstanding capabilities to shape communication zones according user-requirements,
features high data rate for up- and download, and offers, due to the beaming characteristics,
high reliability and protection of privacy.

EFKON AG

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, November 16-20, 2008, New York, New York

Alabama Department of Transportation (ALDOT) has been expanding their ITS deployment both geographically and in terms of added functionality and upgrade of some aging systems.This paper will describe some of these activities as they relate to the tunnel and freewaymanagement facilities in ALDOT, Division 9, in Mobile. The ALDOT’s Tunnel Operation Facility currently operates three tunnel tubes, two of which are Interstate facilities, an 8.5 mile elevated freeway over Mobile Bay, and the Cochran Bridge. The new Transportation Management Center (TMC) that has been constructed immediately next to the old Tunnel Operation Facility is take over the management of the above facilities and expansion of the coverage area to include over 65 miles of freeway facilities. This paper describe some of the challenges and solutions of integrating the older tunnel facilities with newer ITS devices and systems working together from one TMC. It describes the various electro-mechanical components and systems that had to be accessible by the TMC and the approach that was used to computerized the monitoring and control of these components and systems. Iteris Inc.,

Alabama Department of Transportation

Arcadis Inc.

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

Early intelligent transportation systems (ITS) were integrated exclusive of standing
information technology (IT) departments. The closed, isolated nature of these systems
enabled the ITS network to avoid existing IT security issues and policies. Typically, these
systems were dominated by low bandwidth, serial communication technology in concert with
analog signal transmission for closed circuit television cameras (CCTVs). With the
emergence of Ethernet/Internet Protocol (IP) networks, cost efficient high quality digitized
video, and a desire to share data with partner agencies, ITS networks transitioned from
segregated networks to merged networks where IT professionals, ITS engineers, and
transportation managers find themselves working hand in hand toward similar objectives.
This paper explores the challenges, successes, and lessons learned from real world ITS/IT
collaborations.

Authors: Mark Dunzo, Debbie Self, Cole Dagerhardt

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

This paper describes the latest achievements of Chinese National ITS Architecture by the
project of ‘Research on Chinese ITS architecture and Development of Support System for ITS
Architecture Development’. First, the revision of the first version of Chinese National ITS
Architecture, including the improvement of the theory and method of ITS Architecture
development, update of ITS user services, reversion of the content of National ITS
Architecture, are presented. Then, the activities of developing a customized software for
support of ITS Architecture development are described in detail. Finally, this paper introduces
the development of two regional ITS Architecture.

National Centre of ITS Engineering and Technology

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