Personal Mobility

The New York City, New Jersey Metropolitan area transit, highway, bridge, and tunnel systems are the arteries that move the life blood in the region. 37 million people live within a 30 mile radius, and tens of millions of annual tourists and business travelers using this transportation network make a significant contribution to the regional economy. Linking the myriad of payments systems into one unified electronic system will improve services, reduce costs, and encourage great use of transit for this market.

This year we will be testing smart cards for New Jersey Transit rail customers traveling to Newark International Airport. These smart cards will be used to access the AirTrain fare gates at the new Northeast Corridor station. Smart cards will also be incorporated next year into the fare payments system for the new John F. Kennedy International Airport AirTrain. At the same time, we are exploring a new PATH fare collection system incorporating both MetroCard and smart card capability. And in time, smart cards will be issued for other New Jersey Transit and Metropolitan Transportation Authority bus and rail riders.

The Port Authority of New York and New Jersey

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, June 4-7, 2001 Miami Beach, Florida

This paper explores the possible transportation and property value impacts of a new  congestion management policy called credit-based congestion pricing (CBCP). Integrated land usetransportation models provide short- and long-term estimates of travel demand, network operations, location choice, and land use patterns. Using destination, mode and departure time choice models sensitive to changes in travel times and costs, household travel demands were simulated in order to appreciate the transportation effects of a CBCP policy for Austin, Texas. Changes in land use, locational accessibility and property values as a result of CBCP also were simulated. The trip-based welfare impacts of such a policy were compared for three scenarios (full network pricing, major highway pricing only, and no pricing), in order to identify households and neighborhoods that will benefit most and least from such policies. The results corroborate prior results and hypotheses about the potential of a CBCP policy to alleviate congestion and generate benefits across the region income groups and traveler types.

Key words: Credit-based congestion pricing, travel demand modeling, welfare, property value
models, transportation policy

The University of Texas at Austin

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, April 26 - 28, 2004 San Antonio, Texas

Motorways participate insufficiently in solving of the traffic problems in the Croatian big cities, so that it is necessary to undertake measures which would revitalize motorways and enable their
integration into the traffic systems of the Croatian cities, with the use of the already tested world and  European  models.  The  problem  points  to  the  fact  that  Croatia  has  the  highest  number  of motorways  in  relation  to  $  billion  of  GDP,  that  there  is  the  lowest  number  of  junctions  at Croatian  motorways,  and  that  the  distance  between  them  is  the  longest.  The  traffic  load  on  the Croatian  motorways  expressed  in  the  number  of  vehicle-kilometres  per  motorway  kilometre  is amongst the lowest in the World, and there is the highest distance between Croatian motorways and the centres of the big cities they connect.

Institute of Transport and Communications
Kušlanova 2, 10000 Zagreb, CROATIA

Elektromodul promet

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

Driver-Information-Systems (DIS), telematics hardware, telecommunication and IT devices become more and more part of modern vehicles. Both, technology and users, press new devices into the cockpits. Driving still remains the main task, so the design of the human machine interface (HMI) has to be done carefully to avoid loss in safety due to driver distraction.

A cross cultural usability study with existing automotive DIS supported any hypothesis on differences between users. A software tool used to produce application ready software for DIS directly out of the simulation was developed. The HMI components can easily be adapted to local market needs, without changing the major (functional) part of the program.

CAA AG

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, May 19-22, 2003 Minneapolis, Minnesota

The Traveler Information Center (TIC), known as SmarTraveler, is one element of the Orion Program for deploying Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies in the Twin Cities metropolitan area. The TIC is an example of an Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) providing real-time traveler information via telephone and Internet services. It has been operational since November 1998. The project is under the overall supervision of the Minnesota Department of Transportation (Mn/DOT) and its management consultant/private sector partner, Lockheed Martin of Canada (LM). The TIC is owned, managed, and operated by SmartRoute Systems under subcontract to LM.

The purpose of this paper is to present the evaluation results which tested the accuracy of the data being provided by the TIC. The hypothesis of the evaluation is that the TIC is providing reasonably accurate information, and that the quality of this information will improve over time. This hypothesis was measured by conducting travel time runs on designated routes covered by the TIC, and comparing the travel conditions observed with the conditions reported by the TIC at the beginning and the end of the travel run. The measures evaluated for accuracy were travel time, accidents, incidents (breakdowns), and construction. The travel time runs were conducted in the spring and fall of 1999.

Cambridge Systematics, Inc.

URS

Minnesota Department of Transportation

Presented at the 10th ITS Annual Conference and Exposition, May 1-4, 2000 Boston, MA