Personal Mobility

This paper summarises some of the achievements of information strategy work currently
conducted in the Directorate of Traffic Operations (DTO) of Transport for London (TfL),
United Kingdom. In particular the paper highlights a comprehensive system and data
audit, an intelligence requirement capture exercise, and a network analysis methodology.

London Traffic Analysis Unit (LTAU)

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

The North/West Passage Program is a collaboration of eight adjacent Northern states
along the I-90/I-94 corridor from Seattle, Washington to Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
These states share a long term vision that travelers will one day receive information
about weather, road construction, and major incident event summaries for the entire
corridor without the need to check individual state reports. A number of ITS
standards exist for data and information exchange, however the standards allow for
many optional phrases when describing events or conditions. This paper presents an
effort to develop a set of corridor-wide consistent event descriptions that can be used
by each North/West Passage state to describe major events, and ultimately support a
very effective exchange of event descriptions.

Idaho Transportation Department

Minnesota Department of Transportation

Athey Creek Consultants

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

The Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) is carrying out a two-phase
project called SmartPark to demonstrate commercial technologies for conveying
information about parking availability in real-time to truck drivers on the road 24 hours
per day, seven days per week. During Phase I, two technologies (i.e., video imaging and
magnetic sensor) will be field tested for their capability to collect data to determine
whether a truck parking area is full. One of the two technologies will be continued for
Phase II, which will be demonstrating how information on parking availability can be
disseminated in real time and used in real time to divert truckers on the road from areas
that are full to areas that have space. This is the first deployment of Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) for truck parking availability in the world.

Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration

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

As part of the Freight Performance Measures (FPM) initiative, the Federal Highway
Administration (FHWA) and the American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI) are
currently investigating research methods that will determine the usefulness of wireless truck
position data in identifying and improving truck parking deficiencies on U.S. interstate
highways. This report describes a new research methodology for measuring demand for truck
parking through the use of vehicle position data. The analysis described in this report also
demonstrate the application of position data for mapping truck parking supply to demand, and
subsequently identifying where truck parking facilities may be needed.

American Transportation Research Institute (ATRI)

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

This paper presents problems identified in the conventional traffic information boards and
the implementation of cellular based traffic information system. We have just started to
implement the cellular phone system in order to provide our customers with timely,
accurate and reliable information as a responsibility of a road administrator, while the
traffic information service by the use of cellular phone had started among private sectors a
few years ago in Japan. The system will be expected to have ubiquitous coverage for
information services and enable advanced traffic management.
The latest results of the evaluation and more gained experiences will be presented at New
York since the system is now under development and to be launched into the market this
summer.

West Nippon Expressway Company Limited (NEXCO West)

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