ITS Capabilities
ITS offers promising solutions to many transportation problems and challenges. These systems are diverse and versatile, combining telecommunications, computer, and sensing technologies to provide real-time information to both traffic managers and travelers on traffic, weather, navigation, and vehicle diagnostics and to achieve greater system efficiency, safety, and convenience. Since 1991, the National ITS Program has pursued research, technology development, and field testing and has promoted deployment of first-generation ITS applications.
ITS Publications
Development of Human Factors Guidelines for Advanced Traveler Information Systems: Components of the Intelligent Transportation System: Components of the Intelligent Transportation Systems - Design for Alternatives for In-Vehicle Information Display
FHWA-RD-96-147
Design of an ITS-Level Advanced Traffic Management System: A Human Factors Perspective
FHWA-RD-95-181
Integrated ITS Capabilities in Heavy Vehicles: Human Factors Research Needs
FHWA-RD-98-187
Integrated ITS Capabilities in Transit Vehicles: Human Factors Research Needs
FHWA-RD-98-188
Preliminary Factors Guidelines for Traffic Control Management Centers
FHWA-JP-99-042
Presenting Hazard Warning Information to Drivers Using an Advanced Traveler Information System
FHWA-RD-96-183
Traffic Detector Handbook
FHWA-IP-90-002
ITS Greatest Hits Publications
Architecture:
Developing
Freeway and Incident Management Systems Using the National ITS
Architecture
Developing Intelligent
Information Transportation Systems Using the National ITS Architecture:
An Executive Edition for Senior Transportation Managers
Developing
Traffic Signal Control Systems Using the National ITS Architecture
Developing
Traveler Information Systems Using the National ITS Architecture
The Road to
Successful ITS Software Acquisition: Executive Summary
The Road
to Successful ITS Software Acquisition: Volume I - Overview and Themes
The Road
to Successful ITS Software Acquisition: Volume II - Software Acquisition
Process Reference Guide
General ITS:
Advanced Traveler Information Systems - Choosing the
Route to Traveler Information Systems Deployment: Factors for Creating
Public-Private Business Plans (Action Guide)
Choosing the Route to Traveler Information Systems
Deployment: Decision Factors for Creating Public-Private Business Plans
How
Local Governments Use Intelligent Transportation Systems: Traveling with
Success
Intelligent Transportation Systems in the Heartland -
Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, Iowa
Intelligent
Transportation Systems: Real World Benefits
ITS Benefits: Continuing Successes and Operational
Test Results
Marketing ITS Infrastructure in the Public Interest
National Intelligent Transportation Infrastructure
Initiative
Road Less
Traveled: Intelligent Transportation Systems
for Sustainable Communities
The
Future of Transportation Starts Here: Intelligent Transportation Systems
Intermodal:
Advanced Traveler
Information Systems Capabilities: Human Research Needs
Basic Collision
Warning and Driver Information Systems: Human Factors Research Needs
Challenges
and Opportunities for an ITS Intermodal Freight Program (Final Report)
IVI General:
Full-Coverage
Collision Warning: Human Factors Research Needs
Human Factors Needs
for the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) Program
Integrated ITS
Capabilities in Transit Vehicles: Human Research Needs
Intelligent Vehicle Initiative: Business Plan
Planning:
A Toolbox for Alleviating Traffic
Congestions and Enhancing Mobility
Integrating Intelligent Transportation
Systems Within the Transportation Planning Process: An Interim Handbook
FHWA-SA-98-048
Transportation Planning and ITS: Putting
the Pieces Together
Professional Capacity Building:
Building Professional Capacity in ITS: An
Assessment of ITS Training and Educational Needs - The Transportation
Perspective
Building Professional Capacity in ITS:
Documentation and Analysis of Training and Educational Needs in Support
of ITS Deployment
Building Professional Capacity in ITS:
Guidelines for Designing an Individualized Training Education Plan
Building
Professional Capacity in ITS: Guidelines for Developing the Future
Professional
Building
Professional Capacity in ITS: Guidelines for Staffing, Hiring, and
Designing Ideal Project Teams
ITS
Professional Capacity Building Program Reports
Progress Assessment Benefit Brochures:
Achieving Shared Efficiencies Through
Cooperative Implementation: Commercial Vehicle Electronic Screening
Better Service, Greater Efficiency:
Transit Management for Demand Response Systems
Better
Service, Safer Service: Transit Management for Fixed-Route Systems
Enhancing Public Safety, Saving Lives:
Emergency Vehicle Preemption
Faster Response Time, Effective Use of
Resources: Integrating Transportation Systems and Emerging Management
Systems
Improved Enforcement: Safer Roads for
State Agencies - Commercial Vehicle Electronic Screening
Improving Mobility, Saving Lives: Safety
Service Patrols
Intelligent Transportation Systems Field
Operational Test - Cross-Cutting Test: Advanced Traveler Information
Systems (9/98)
Intelligent Transportation Systems Field
Operations Test Cross-Cutting Study: Commercial Vehicle Administrative
Process
Intelligent Transportation Systems Field
Operational Test Cross-Cutting Study: Commercial Vehicle Operations -
Roadside (11/98)
Intelligent Transportation Systems Field
Operational Test Cross-Cutting Study: Emergency Notification and
Response (9/98)
Intelligent Transportation Systems Field
Operational Test Cross-Cutting Study: Emissions Management Using ITS
Technology (9/98)
Intelligent Transportation Systems Field
Operational Test Cross-Cutting Study: Hazardous Material Incident
Response (9/98)
Intelligent Transportation Systems Field
Operational Test Cross-Cutting Study: Incident Management: Detection,
Verification, and Traffic Management (9/98)
Intelligent Transportation Systems
Benefits: 1999 Update
Safer Trucks, Higher Profits for Motor
Carriers: Commercial Vehicle Electronic Screening
Safer Travel: Improved Economic
Productivity Incident Management Systems
Saving
Lives, Improving Transportation Efficiency: Weather Information for
Surface Transportation
Sharing Resources, Coordination Response:
Deploying and Operating Incident Management Systems
Speeding Response, Saving Lives:
Automatic Vehicle Location Capabilities for Emerging Services
Streamlining ITS Planning: Identifying
Common ITS Needs, National ITS Architecture
Program Assessment - Other Topics:
Intelligent Transportation Systems Assessment of ITS Deployment: The New York-New
Jersey-Connecticut Metropolitan Model Deployment Initiative - A Review
of the Initial Negotiating Process (Final Report - 7/98)
FHWA-JPO-98-033
Marketing
ITS Infrastructure in the Public Interest (5/98)
FHWA-JPO-98-029
Successful
Approaches to Deploying a Metropolitan Intelligent Transportation System
(Final Report - 3/99)
FHWA-JPO-99-032
Tracking
State Information Systems of Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and
Networks (National Report)
Tracking
the Deployment on the Integrated Metropolitan Intelligent Transportation
Systems Infrastructure in the USA: FY 1997 Results
FHWA-JPO-001
Resource Guides:
ITS Information Security
Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS) Information Security Analysis (11/97)
FHWA-JPO-98-009
Protecting
Our Transportation Systems: An Information Security Awareness Overview (10/97)
State
of Maryland Intelligent Transportation Systems Security Implementation
Recommendations (11/97)
State
of Maryland Intelligent Transportation Systems Security Requirements
Recommendations (11/97)
Procurement
Innovative Contracting Practices for Task E: Final Report
Virginia Department of Transportation Public-Private Procurement Issues: Accomplishments & Interim Report
Telecommunications Highlights
A Case for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Telecommunications Analysis - Maryland State Highway Administration ITS Telecommunications Study
ITS Telecommunications: Public or Private? A Cost Tradeoff Methodology Guide
ITS Telecommunications: Public or Private? A Cost Tradeoff Methodology Guide
Shared Resources: Sharing Right-of-Way for Telecommunications: Guidance on Legal and