Sustainability

Road traffic, as one of the basic preconditions for the development of any city – metropolis, is
entering ever deeper into a phase of failing to be sustainable. Thus, in the City of Zagreb as
well, the number of vehicles in the recent ten years has doubled and is approaching the halfmillion
figure, and the capacities defined by the urban space have remained the same. How to
harmonize the supply and the demand in the field of traffic – this is the basic issue of the city
development sustainability. The work presents the implementation of advanced telematic
technologies (Intelligent Transport Systems - ITS) in the function of guiding vehicles to free
parking spaces in the public garages (PG). The paper provides a proposal for the basic
guidelines of functional specification with special development of the algorithm with realtime
presentation of free spaces.

Elipsa – S.Z. d.o.o.

City Council of Zagreb

Presecki grup

Faculty of Transport and Traffic Sciences

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

Driver’s driving pattern is one the greatest factors determining the fuel consumption and thus carbon dioxide emissions of a heavy-duty vehicle. Difference in fuel consumption can be up to 30 % depending on the driver. Education, monitoring and feedback are ways of guiding drivers towards more fuel efficient driving patterns. An incentive system related to fuel consumption is one way of giving feedback. The greatest challenge facing incentive systems in transportation companies is righteous measurement of driver’s fuel consumption. This study focused on that challenge. As a result of this study an incentive system was developed for the case company, Tampere City Transport. Fuel consumption is the key indicator of driver’s performance in the incentive system. Measurement of fuel consumption is based on groups, which are formed by runs with similar vehicle, route and time of day. Drivers are compared by using a figure calculated from fuel consumptions of their own runs in different groups.

Tampere University of Technology

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

Operation Green light (OGL) is a project that was created by the Kansas City region, and is led
by Mid-America Regional Council (MARC) in Kansas City MO.  The purpose of this project is
to coordinate traffic signals within 20 jurisdictions, on regionally significant corridors to decrease
stops and delays which will help decrease fuel consumption, and emissions. A metro-wide
predominantly wireless network allows the traffic signals to communicate with the central system software.  There were several considerations and issues when implementing this network.

Mid-America Regional Council

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

Congestion pricing is an important tool for managing demand and providing improved mobility. Gauging the response of those potentially affected by pricing strategies is important to policy makers and implementers of such strategies, both in terms of the public’s opinions and the impact on travelers’ decisions. This paper describes the key role that survey data provide in informing the analysis of congestion pricing. The work is based on the evaluation of five Urban Partners, which the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) funded as demonstration sites for congestion pricing.

Battelle

Volpe Transportation Research Center

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

Due to economic, environmental and political reasons, there is an increasing demand for zero-emission vehicles. With the wide-scale deployment of electric car systems, a variety of parties with conflicting interests will be interacting, and there will be incentives for dishonest behavior. As a consequence, new technical challenges which are related to IT security and embedded security arise in the context of electric vehicle systems. For instance, payment and metering needs to be secured, privacy needs to be preserved, and the infrastructure needs to be protected. This work investigates for the first time the security threats that must be addressed in intelligent transportation systems, discusses possible solutions, and presents the benefits that IT security provides in this context.

University of Massachusetts at Amherst

Escrypt, Inc.

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