Personal Mobility

Finnish Road Administration (later Finnra) is strongly improving the quality of real-time
traffic information in Finland. Finnra provides real-time traffic data free of charge to its
partners, but it does not participate in the development of actual end user services or value
added services. Finnra’s contribution to development is made through a private-public
partnership (PPP) as a provider of information.
In 2005 Finnra started a project for developing a travel time information system. This system
has been in production since June 2008. It is based on two parts: 1) detection of real-time
travel times, and 2) real-time traffic database called Digitraffic. In the future Digitraffic is the
only interface for real time traffic and road weather data from Finnra to the service providers.

Finnish Road Administration (Finnra), South-Eastern District

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

This paper presents an algorithm to predict an individual’s real-time travel path and destination using
data from a Global Positioning System (GPS) enabled mobile phone. The algorithm uses spatiallyaware,
geometric representations of a user’s historical trip data in its comparisons thus eliminating the
need for taxing calculations. This technique also promotes scalability through the use of enterprise
spatial database systems. Multiple modes of transportation are supported since the algorithm does
not rely on road network information. This Path Prediction algorithm can enable a variety of services
such as real-time localized traffic incident reporting, location-based advertising, and live traffic
management.

University of South Florida

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

 
This paper outlines the innovative work being undertaken to deliver improvements to road users
across  the  road  network,  in  the  county  of  Essex.  The  paper  shows  the  links  that  have  been
established with the private sector to make innovative use of data sources, and the work with the
County  Council’s  partnered  consultant  to  develop  sound  statistical  analysis  of  data  and  the
development of interventions to control and manage the road network. These activities combine
to form the basis of the delivery of targets agreed with central government which, when achieved,
will deliver over £3 million of reward funding to Essex County Council.

 Essex County Council

SA2000/Atkins

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

This article presents an express lane network concept called “High Occupancy
Vehicle-Credit” or HOT-C lanes that could be implemented in a short period of time.  A network of free-flowing express lanes would be created by re-striping freeways to convert the left general-purpose lane(s) into HOT-C lanes during rush hours and creating a dynamic shoulder lane on the right side to replace the converted left general-purpose lane.  To gain public acceptance, a limited quota of credits would be made available to all employees in the
metropolitan area for free use of the lanes during rush hours.

Federal Highway Administration

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

This paper will present the conclusions of the ITS Integration Plan developed for the Gateway Cities, which is
comprised of 27 cities in southeast Los Angeles county and the Port of Long Beach. This Integration Plan is unique
because it has a heavy emphasis on goods movement and the private sector as a critical partner in developing solutions
that will be effective. The focus of the paper is on the importance of the private sector in public sector plans. The
partnership of the public and private sector is critical to implementing and operating systems that benefit both the
Goods Movement industry and the public sector.

California Department of Transportation

Kimley-Horn and Associates, Inc.

Gateway Cities Council of Governments

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