Personal Mobility

This paper describes the deployment of the Smart-SIGNAL technology in the City of
Pasadena, CA – collecting and archiving event-based traffic signal data simultaneously at
several intersections along one major arterial corridor. Smart-SIGNAL generates timedependent
performance measures for both individual intersections and arterials including
intersection queue length and arterial travel time. The paper describes lessons learnt during
the deployment and focuses on the analysis of the resultant information, and its value for
traffic operations as well for the traveling public.

Author: Michael Wieck

Presented at the 18th World Congress on ITS, October 2011, Orlando, Florida

Increasingly, transit authorities are harnessing advances in sensor, payment, and enforcement
technologies to operate parking facilities more efficiently by enhancing customer parking
experiences and thereby increasing ridership and overall revenue. In the short term, these
innovations promise to increase the effective supply of existing parking with minimal
investment. Over the longer term, these systems could further expand ridership by generating
revenue to add parking capacity and improve access. This paper reports on the Smart Parking
Pilot Project on the COASTER commuter rail line in San Diego (California, USA), which
builds on the transit-based smart parking field test research conducted at the Rockridge San
Francisco Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) District station. The paper begins with a literature
review on parking management and pricing and the optimization of parking resources at
transit facilities. Next, the authors describe results of an initial pilot feasibility study. Finally,
the phased smart parking implementation plan, carefully tailored to address key transit-related
parking problems at the station and corridor levels, is described along with the pilot project’s
evaluation criteria.

University of California, Berkeley

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

This white paper, DMS Message Effectiveness Tool—Signs of Intelligence for Successful Communities, offers practical advice, case studies, and the Skyline Products DMS Message Effectiveness Tool to help agencies develop their policies regarding effective Dynamic Message Sign (DMS) usage. A key to effective advisories is displaying messages that are clear, concise, credible, and actionable—such advisories help the agency achieve the greatest results for its Intelligent Transportation System (ITS)environment.

Specifically, the goal of this white paper is to be a reference tool for any DOT agency developing or tuning its policy on the use of DMS messages. Such a policy would provide guidelines for DMS managers and operators to relay clear, informative, and relevant messages. This is an important consideration, since motorists must be able to quickly comprehend the DMS advisory, filter the information as it relates to their situation, and take appropriate action. Of course, this all happens in a matter of seconds, while drivers speed along in complex traffic conditions and often in less-than-ideal weather conditions.

Skyline Products

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

Ride Solution is the Community Transportation Coordinator for Putnam County, Florida and, as such, is responsible for the coordination of all of the tax funded, human service transportation in the county. Putnam County is a rural county of 798 square miles and total population of 70,000, approximately 11,000 of which live in Palatka, the county seat. Ride Solution operates a fleet of 34 vehicles with about half being buses and half being vans. The operation has been successful in interweaving human service transport so as to form a countywide public transit system with published schedules, bus stop signs and shelters. The service operates on one hour headways in Palatka, the largest incorporated area in the county, and on about two hour headways within a 25 mile radius of Palatka. Four hour headways are maintained three days a week on a 55 mile route to Gainesville in the neighboring county of Alachua. Ride Solution provides 120,000 rides per year about 20,000 of which are general public riders who access the system at published stops. A fare of $1.00 provides the public with a one way trip anywhere in the system. Savings to agency participants includes a $300,000 per year or 33% reduction in Medicaid transportation costs since flex routing began on a large scale in 1996.

Ride Solution

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

There are several wireless communication methods for vehicle to vehicle communication and the communication methods using ad- hoc have been studied recently. [1][2] But to use the ad- hoc communication method in vehicle to vehicle communication, there are so many problems which we have to solve. [3]   Especially fields of MAC and Routing Protocol have been actively researched for vehicle to vehicle communication. Among of them routing protocol is a role of discovery new routing path and routing path maintenance. [4][5][6] If a vehicle to vehicle communication environment has high speed, the total network performance will be rapidly down. Because existing routing protocol has developed in environment of high speed so many part is modified or improved.

Hanyang University

Jungwon B/D. 2nd. 99-1

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