ITS AS A DATA RESOURCE

Preliminary Requirements for a User Service

This report was provided by Richard Margiotta of Science Applications International Corporation for the Federal Highway Administration, Office of Highway Policy Information. (April 1998)

  Table of Contents

  Executive Summary

  Introduction

  The Need for An Archived Data User Service

  Technical and Institutional Issues for Implementation

  Basic Requirements

Appendices:

  Appendix A: Summary of Recent Data Needs Identification Efforts

  Appendix B: Supplemental Information on the Long-Term Pavement Performance Traffic Data Structure

Tables:

  Table 1.1: Stakeholders for Data Generated by ITS

  Table 1.2: User Services in the National ITS Architecture

  Table 1.3: ITS Data Relevant for Multiple (Nonreal-Time) Uses

  Table 2.1: Uses of ITS Data for Stakeholder Applications

  Table 4.1: Requirements for Archived ITS Data for Multiple (Nonreal-Time) Uses

  Table 4.2: Example Derivation of User Service Requirements

  Table A.1: Public Sector Freight Planning Data Needs

  Table A.2: Data Need of Transit Operators

  Table B.1: LTPP-CTDB Data Types Available

Figures:

  Figure 1.1: Architecture Flow Diagram for Emergency Management

  Figure 1.2: Architecture Flow Diagram for the Planning Subsystem

  Figure 2.1: ITS Traffic Surveillance Data Useful to Stakeholders

  Figure B.1: Example of Level 3 Data

ITS Weblinks:

International ITS Information Clearinghouse

Seattle Smart Traveler: Dynamic Ridematching on the WWW

California Smart Traveler

Bellevue Smart Traveler: Design, Demonstration, and Assessment

Real Time Traffic Links

ITS Research Program (University of Washington Projects)

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