Personal Mobility

The City of Milwaukee is deploying an Advanced Parking Guidance System (APGS) to collect
available parking data from downtown parking facilities and provide this real-time information to
the traveling public and system operators. This information will then be distributed to a number
of partner agencies, including the Wisconsin Department of Transportation (WisDOT), the
Milwaukee Police Department, and the Milwaukee County Sheriff’s Department. Parking
availability information will be provided to the traveling public through static and dynamic
wayfinding signs located throughout the central business district, freeway dynamic message
signs, a real-time public Internet website, an XML data source, and a telephone line. The project,
which consists of two phases, is scheduled for completion by the end of 2009. In the future the
City hopes to deploy the APGS throughout the CBD and ultimately expand the system to full
time operation.

Jacobs Engineering Group

City of Milwaukee, Department of Public Works

Rylander Consulting, LLC

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

It is desirable that newly open roads should be updated to the digital map of the navigation
system as soon as they are opened.
In Japan, new expressways and national roads are updated to the digital map relatively
quickly, because the road administrator makes this information easily accessible to map
suppliers. On the other hand, newly opened local road information is not very accessible to
the map suppliers, thus newly opened local roads are only added to the digital map after a
survey every few years.
When new roads open, cars will drive on them. We believe we can detect a newly opened
road by analyzing probe car’s location data. This paper describes the method and algorithm
used to achieve this.

ITS R&D Department, Denso Corporation

Presented at the 12th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems, November 6-10, 2005, San Francisco, California

Dynamic message signs (DMS) are used to communicate accurate, timely, and pertinent
information to travelers on roadways. This information helps travelers avoid hazards or delays
and respond properly to changing roadway conditions. In an ideal environment, the state
transportation departments would be able to allocate DMS to various areas of the state based
upon changing needs. The location of each sign would be monitored, and the message could be
controlled and checked remotely.
Unfortunately, there are problems standing in the way of reaching this ideal situation. The
Kentucky Transportation Cabinet initiated a research project to identify and address these
problems. The research project included collecting an inventory of the DMS in the state,
reviewing policies of other states and organizations, and identifying needs and issues with regard
to management and use of the signs using a focus group session. All this information was used
to develop recommendations for ways to improve the management and use of the DMS.

University of Kentucky

Presented at the ITS America Annual Conference and Exposition, April 29-May 2, 2002, Long Beach, California

5-1-1 is the nationwide dialing code for real-time travel conditions, but deployment is scattered
and financing is left to individual jurisdictions. In many states, including Wisconsin, the key
question was whether it is possible to deploy a statewide 511 traveler information system for
relatively low cost. Many business models have been considered nationwide, several have been
tried, but few have succeeded. Comparable five-year costs for 511 deployments around the
country range widely from around $1.5 million to over $50 million, with a median value in the
$4 million to $7 million range. Wisconsin is proceeding with a bottom-dollar budget, but if the
schedule holds, the system will have been live for about six weeks at the time of the ITS World
Congress in November 2008, making this a particularly timely topic.

University of Wisconsin-Madison

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

 This paper documents how U.S. transit agencies have, and have not, participated in the 511 traveler information telephone systems that are operational throughout the United States. This project investigated the reasons for the lack of more pervasive and meaningful participation by transit in 511 systems, dispelled the myth that 511 participation will place significant financial or other burdens on most individual participating transit agencies, and concluded that 511 participation is a highly cost-effective strategy for most transit agencies.  The project is approximately 75 percent complete.  Remaining activities include developing a check list of considerations that individual transit agencies can use in deciding whether, and how, to participate in 511 systems; interviewing 511 system administrators to understand why they have or have not included transit in their systems; and conducting a focus group with transit riders to understand their perspectives on 511.  Key words:  public transportation, traveler information, 511.

Battelle

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