Personal Mobility

The City of Milwaukee is deploying an Advanced Parking Guidance System (APGS) to collect
available parking data from downtown parking facilities and provide this real-time information to
the traveling public and system operators. This information will then be distributed to a number
of partner agencies, including the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), the
Milwaukee Police Department, and the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department. Parking
availability information will be provided to the traveling public through static and dynamic
wayfinding signs located throughout the central business district, freeway dynamic message
signs, a real-time public Internet website, an XML data source, and a telephone line. The project,
which consists of two phases, is scheduled for completion by the end of 2009. In the future the
City hopes to deploy the APGS throughout the CBD and ultimately expand the system to full
time operation.

Jacobs Engineering Group

City of Milwaukee, Department of Public Works

Rylander Consulting, LLC

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

In September of 2007 the Missouri Department of Transportation (MoDOT) introduced the
Driving Edge initiative, an umbrella of strategies that provides highway information to the
traveling public before they begin their trip, along the way and around the clock. The
program is comprised of three main elements: an Online Traveler Information Map, Around
the Clock Customer Service and permanent Dynamic Message Signs (DMS) on rural sections
of their interstate system. This technical paper briefly outlines one component of that
initiative, the statewide rural deployment of 48 Dynamic Message Signs on our most traveled
interstate corridors.

Missouri Department of Transportation

Kansas City Scout MoDOT/KDOT

Telvent Farradyne

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

Over the past five years, there has been a revolution in the way that airports can present
ground transportation options to their passengers. Tools and media that would have been
unimaginable just a decade ago are now readily available to the airport manager interested in
creating better public mode ground transportation strategies to her/his airport. The paper
examines the development of new and evolving information technology to bring airport
ground access information and ticketing options to the traveler. The paper concludes that
most major metro areas have sophisticated advanced traveler information systems in
operation, that most airports try to disseminate good ground access information, but there is
very little functional integration occurring between the two. The paper is based on, and
provides an update to, work undertaken for the Airport Cooperative Research Program (1)
and for the I-95 Corridor Coalition (2).

The New England Transportation Institute

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

This paper, using the short story format, illustrates the utility of a Reservation System to
efficiently allocate travelers to scarce transportation resources.  The story uses an analogy
with the passenger air transportation system, where a reservation system for allocating
travelers to seats in aircraft is used ubiquitously today, and shows the consequences of
switching the resource allocation mechanism from “advance reservations” to “first-come-first-
served”.  The traveler's “freedom” to go to the airport whenever he or she wishes, without first having to make a reservation, is shown to be hollow.  The implication for congested surface transportation links are left for the reader to imagine at the end of the story.

Consensus Systems Technologies (ConSysTec) & Chair, ITS America RITE Forum
and Thea D. Jaffe

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

INFORM was the first major Transportation Management System in NY, it is the largest in NY
and one of the largest in the country. We have been operating the INFORM system since the
Spring of 1987. It has more than doubled in size since its initial implementation and has become
an integral part of the New York Metropolitan Region’s daily operations.
INFORM currently monitors Long Island’s Northern and Southern corridors, consisting of the
Island’s major east-west highways and its busiest north-south connecting routes. The Corridor’s
roadways are monitored 24 hrs per day, 7 days/wk, in order to detect incidents and then
minimize their effects on traffic flow, both during peak and off-peak periods
Monitoring of the roadways is achieved through various methods. Vehicle detectors embedded
in the roadway as well as non-intrusive types, Closed Circuit TV, monitoring Police radios and
direct reports from various sources, including our Highway Emergency Local Patrol (HELP)
program. All these methods aid us in detecting incidents as well as monitoring changing traffic
conditions.

NYSDOT Region 10

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