Personal Mobility

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

SUMMARY - ROADIDEA project (www.roadidea.eu) studies the innovations potential of
the European ITS sector by analysing available data sources, revealing existing problems and
bottlenecks for data utilisation and service build-up. ROADIDEA also makes an effort to
develop better methods and models to be utilised in different service platforms. Road
transport is the main focus of research, but co- and multimodality and other forms of transport
will be considered too. As final outcome, a road map to more innovative and competitive
European ITS services is introduced. The research and innovation work is organised into three
main layers: information infrastructure, innovation, and exploitation layers. In two
consecutive cycles, the project innovates in a systematic manner new service concepts and
improvements to existing systems and models for engineering, transport management and
road user services. Awareness of new kinds of data and data fusion techniques are recognised
as enablers for these improvements and innovations. This paper describes the innovation
cycles, the pilot evaluation and assesses some first experience and results.

Foreca Consulting Ltd

VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland

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

As its name  implies, the multi-model navigation system not only provide user the traditional car  navigation  but  also  the  foot  navigation,  and  the  information  of  transfer  among  car navigation  and  public  transport  navigation  and  foot  navigation,  so  multiple  and  real-time information  from  various  sources  in  the  system  are  needed,  for  example,  real-time  public transport  information  and  real-time  traffic  flow  and  the  accident  information,  real-time weather  and  parking  lots  information  etc.  With  the  development  of  Web  service,  it  give multi-modal  navigation  system  a  good  solution,  we  can  get  the  multiple  static  and  dynamic information  from  different  web  services  such  as  public  transport  web  service  and  real-time parking lots web service etc.

China University of Mining & Technology

National Center of ITS Engineering and Technology

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

After briefly stating the principle of GPS technology, the paper synthetically analyzes  the research  background of the surv-control and navigation of GPS vehicle management system. Also its latest research situation in China and abroad is introduced. The paper emphasizes the study on the unique surv-control and navigation of GPS vehicle management system which adapts to the China’s situation.  Then the system’s design procedures are expounded and the
software’s frame and function of every section are set up. The software tool—MapInfo which can combine map with  text information perfectly and its notable characteristics of the table GIS are detailedly introduced. In the end, prospect of GPS and GIS applications in the surv-control and navigation of vehicle is looked into future. Based on analyzing and comparing the characteristic of three system program development software, MapBasic, VB, VC++ and comprehensive consideration VC++ is selected as the system development software.

School of Transportation of  Wuhan University of Technology, Wuhan China

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

Tehran- the capital of Iran- is the largest city of the country with more than 8 million people residents, 600 square kilometers wide, it serves more than 4 million vehicles and 4 million motorcycles as well, over a large scattered road network consisting of 4 active metro ways and 5 active bus rapid transit lanes. Nevertheless, deficiency of transportation systems in Tehran has been led to achieve the first place in the world in air and noise pollution. At 1980, Tehran municipality lined a border around the city center, and defined a traffic congested area through which any entry for the vehicles since then needs permission. Although such permission is only granted to a very small group of people like physicians, there was still a great trespassing rate due to the insufficient capability of control. Till the past year, all the entry roads to the restricted zone were controlled by police officers. There are as much as 5 million vehicles passing the borders monthly of which 20 percent or 1.1 million is illegal. Thus, efficient controlling is a major need, and if systemized, it can deliver vital information of traffic data. Since the past year, Tehran traffic Control Company, implemented an automated control of the borders, using 103 high res. Cameras, which contributed to detect more than 80 percent of illegal entries, and has become a very useful tool to collect traffic data for further analysis. This paper discusses this success story.

Keywords: Tehran traffic problems, congestion charging, congestion pricing

2011 World Congress, Orlando, Tehran Traffic Control Company