Architecture

ITS Architecture Use and Maintenance Workshop (2-day)

This 2-day workshop will help ITS professionals better understand how your own regional ITS architecture can be used in regional and statewide transportation planning and project development. You will gain a greater insight into the decisions and the process steps involved in maintaining your regional architecture. “Champions” and key stakeholders from each region will participate, and each workshop will have from two to four regions. This is not a training course, but rather an interactive workshop facilitated by the National ITS Architecture Team using interactive lectures, discussions, and group exercises. Participants should bring a copy of their regional ITS architecture to the workshop as it will be used throughout the workshop.

Contact your FHWA Division or FTA Region office to request the workshop. Go to www.its.dot.gov and under "Technical Assistance Resources" click on “ITS Field Office Specialists”. Preparations should begin about three months before the workshop.

Check www.its.dot.gov/arch/index.htm for information on the National ITS Architecture, Turbo Architecture, and a copy of the Regional ITS Architecture Guidance Document.

Workshop Objectives

Discussion in each workshop will relate closely to the Regional ITS Architecture Guidance Document, focusing on the technical and institutional issues that may arise when the regions and states use their ITS architecture and maintain it over time. Specific objectives include understanding:

• How the regional ITS architecture supports aspects of transportation planning
• ITS Strategic Plans and their potential role in support of long range planning
• Stakeholders and how to engage them using your ITS architecture
• How the architecture supports programming and budgeting of ITS projects
• How to use your architecture to identify potential ITS projects
• How the architecture relates to systems engineering
• How to use the architecture during project implementation
• Decisions and process steps to maintain the architecture

Who will Benefit from Attending the Workshop?

• Public se, as well as those planning, designing, or generating specifications for ITS projects.
• Private sector consultants unector professionals responsible for regional and statewide transportation planning, regional ITS architecture development and maintenancder contract to the public sector for developing and maintaining a regional ITS architecture, ITS planning, and project development.

Updated: August 20, 2008 10:21 AM