Peer-to-Peer

The Intelligent Transportation Peer-to-Peer Program is a Federal Highway Administration, Federal Transit Administration, and Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration Technical Assistance Program that provides public sector transportation stakeholders with a convenient method to tap into the growing knowledge base of ITS experience and receive short-term assistance.

1-888-700-PEER
p2p@volpe.dot.gov

Peer-to-Peer Success Stories

• Metropolitan Highway
• Metropolitan Transit
• Rural Highway
• Rural Transit
• CVO Vehicles
• Summary of Recent Activities – [HTML, DOC 3MB]

Customer Satisfaction Survey Results – [PDF, 76KB]

Effective

Over 120 ITS professionals lend their technical expertise to the Peer-to-Peer Program. The USDOT carefully selects each participant based on his/her qualifications, background, and experience. Most of the program's Peers are public sector transportation professionals who are active in the planning, design, procurement and implementation of ITS. Additional private sector Peers supplement the vast technical expertise of the public sector Peers to ensure the program offers the most complete coverage of ITS technical issues.

The Peers bring to the program a breadth of experience in the deployment of the following intelligent transportation infrastructure elements:

For each of the metropolitan, rural, and commercial vehicle operations infrastructure elements above, the Peer-to-Peer Program offers assistance in the following technical areas:

The Peer-to-Peer program continuously updates itself to incorporate new technical areas and to increase the accessibility to Peers. Nominations for additional Peers are accepted on an ongoing basis. Just call the Peer-to-Peer program to receive information on nominating yourself or another transportation professional.

Responsive

Any public agency or group that is involved in planning, evaluating, making decisions, or operating an ITS system or its components can access the Peer-to-Peer Program. The program is designed to provide short-term assistance to address specific, technical issues. The program staff will listen to the requestor's issues and suggest an approach to provide the assistance. Some issues may be resolved directly by the program staff; other specific, technical issues may be addressed through assistance from a Peer.

Requestors across the nation have included:

• state DOT headquarters and district offices;
• transit authorities;
• turnpike and tollway authorities;
• metropolitan planning organizations;
• city and county transportation and public works offices;
• and transportation management agencies.

The Peer-to-Peer Program can be contacted via:

The Peer-to-Peer Program supplements the FHWA Resource Centers, FTA Regional staff, and FMCSA staff who are the primary providers of technical assistance. The FHWA Resource Centers or FTA Regional staff can be contacted concurrently with the Peer-to-Peer Program to satisfy your short-term and longer duration assistance needs.

Confidential

Peers and the program's national office staff are required to hold all information confidential within the program. Public release of information (for example for a newsletter synopsis) is approved in advance by the agencies and Peers involved.

Free

The Peer-to-Peer Program strives to cover all costs associated with the assistance efforts, within the limits of program's guidelines and USDOT funding. Recipients of program services are asked to economize whenever possible to help the program stretch its resources so it can assist as many agencies as possible.

The Peer-to-Peer Program will pay for travel, accommodations, meals, incidental expenses, and similar costs associated with on-site and off-site assistance. Requestors may be asked to assist in securing overnight accommodations, waive any conference registration fees, provide meeting rooms, and similar assistance typical for agencies receiving a visitor. Such cooperation enables the program's resources to be maximized.

Updated October 9, 2008 4:11 PM