Personal Mobility

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

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

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

Until recently the focus in traffic signal preemption and priority has been on developing and extending the capabilities of various technologies and studying their impact on real or hypothetical traffic flows. As these technologies have been implemented, however, institutional issues both before and after implementation have been recognized as significant. This paper examines the differing issues, needs, and concerns that elected officials and transit, traffic and emergency personnel in the Washington, D.C. region have regarding the implementation, installation, maintenance and use of both types of systems. Based on interviews with 37 area officials, system objectives and requirements were identified. The agencies and jurisdictions represented have very different levels of familiarity and experience with preemption and priority systems. For a signal preemption system the objectives identified were that it shall significantly reduce response time to emergencies, improve the safety and health of emergency personnel, and reduce accidents between non-emergency vehicles due to the passage of responding emergency units at intersections where it is installed. Stakeholders also suggested four policy requirements for priority systems. A signal priority system for transit shall improve schedule adherence, improve the efficiency with which buses run, be part of a lager ITS system that includes improved rider information and other services, and increase the overall efficiency with which the road network is used by contributing to an increase in bus ridership. The interviews also revealed that in order to achieve these objectives the systems were required to meet a number of requirements such as regional interoperability and the potential to hold users accountable. In all six system requirements were clearly defined.

George Mason University

Virginia Tech Transportation Institute

Presented at the 11th ITS Annual Conference and Exposition, June 4-7, 2001 Miami Beach, Florida

SRF Consulting Group, Inc., in cooperation with Scott County, designed a transit station that
provides Scott County residents with a new commuting option to downtown Minneapolis.
Working with Scott County and other local agencies, SRF designed the bus park-and-ride
station to sensitively fit into a developing commercial and residential area. 
 
Located near TH 169 and CSAH 18, the station is comprised of several main functions: a bus
turn-around and drop-off area, a passenger waiting area with shelters, a 550-car surface
parking lot, and an access road with walks. 
 
The ITS elements of this project include:
 
·  A traveler information system designed to continuously count the lot capacity and inform
approaching vehicles of parking space availability in the lot with real- time information. 
·  A wireless telemetry system.
·  Changeable message signs incorporated into decorative landscape monuments.
·  A six-camera security system with on-site digital video recording.
 
The project was awarded “2007 Project of the Year” by the Association of Minnesota
Counties.

SRF Consulting Group, Inc.

Scott County

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