Welcome to DOT ITS Knowledge Resources
Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) provide a proven set of strategies for advancing transportation safety, mobility, and environmental sustainability by integrating communication and information technology applications into the management and operation of the transportation system across all modes. This website presents summaries on the benefits, costs, deployment levels, and lessons learned for ITS deployment and operations from over 20 years of ITS evaluation studies, research syntheses, handbooks, journal articles, and conference papers tracking the effectiveness of deployed ITS.
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- Added: 10/28/2016 - Real-time automated passenger counter data enables responsiveness to periods of high and low demand for light rail.
- Added: 10/28/2016 - Intelligent advanced warnings of end-of-green at signalized intersections led to more stopping and milder deceleration compared to no warnings.
- Added: 10/28/2016 - Statewide Traveler Information System in New York estimated to reduce up to 767 kg/day of vehicle CO emissions, amongst other emissions.
- Added: 10/28/2016 - Variable speed limits have safety benefits and a homogenizing effect, but a German study found no increase in freeway capacity.
- Added: 10/28/2016 - In Smart Zone work zones, 71 percent of local resident survey respondents found variable speed limit signs useful.
- Added: 09/12/2016 - Deployed ACS Lite near Columbus, Ohio saves $88,400 in operations while increasing network volumes.
- Added: 09/12/2016 - Deployment of HOT lanes reduced travel times by 10 minutes during A.M. peak and 19 minutes during P.M. peak.
- Added: 09/12/2016 - Adaptive traffic signal system reduces travel times by 1 to 4 percent on a congested arterial.
- Added: 09/12/2016 - Conversion of HOV facilities to HOT facilities finds a benefit-cost ratio of 2.19, with benefits primarily derived from improved safety.
- Added: 09/12/2016 - Brake assist systems and autonomous emergency braking systems were able to avoid vehicle-pedestrian crashes 12 percent and 42 percent of the time, respectively.
- Added: 09/12/2016 - Broadcasting information from sensors and vehicles regarding status of on-street parking spaces reduces cruising time by 5-10 percent.
- Added: 09/12/2016 - Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control in trucks could yield energy savings of 20-25 percent.
- Added: 09/12/2016 - Bus rapid transit could reduce travel time by 20 percent compared to conventional bus service.
- Added: 06/26/2016 - Overall benefit-cost ratio for traffic incident management-oriented ITS program estimated to be 3.16.
- Added: 06/26/2016 - Variable speed limit pilot found to be effective reducing the number of overall crashes.
- Added: 05/27/2016 - Deployment of special event signal timing plans has reduced queuing onto travel lanes of I-75 before events and reduced time for traffic to disperse after events to 90 minutes from 3 to 4 hours.
- Added: 05/26/2016 - The cost of O&M at the Arizona TMC was estimated at $2 million per year.
- Added: 05/22/2016 - Transit Signal Priority implemented in Chicago found a 4 to 15 percent reduction in bus travel time, 51 to 54 percent reduction in bus travel time variance, and annual fuel consumption savings of 131 gallons for bus routes 49 and X49.
- Added: 04/26/2016 - Augmented speed enforcement system in work zone significantly reduced the number of vehicles traveling in excess of 65 mph
- Added: 04/25/2016 - HOV to HOT Lane conversion results in 22 percent reduction in annual vehicle hours of delay.
- Added: 03/31/2016 - Capital costs of HOV conversion to HOT lanes total $8,716,000 with annual operating costs beginning at $1,294,922.
- Added: 03/31/2016 - Initial deployment of 47 variable speed limit signs to cost $12.5 million (CAD)
- Added: 03/29/2016 - Sixty-six percent of drivers changed their route following information provided by Iowa 511 system.
- Added: 03/29/2016 - Signal Priority operations shown to improve connected bus travel times by 8.2 percent and connected truck travel times by 39.7 percent.
- Added: 03/29/2016 - Tractor-trailor platooning enabled by V2V communications demonstrates fuel savings up to 9.7 percent.
- Added: 03/29/2016 - Forward collision warning systems with adaptive braking and anticipatory collision safety features can mitigate severity in 53 percent of rear-end collisions.
- Added: 02/09/2016 - Sequential Dynamic Curve Warning System reduces the number of vehicles exceeding the speed limit by 10 mph or more by 27.8 percent
- Added: 02/09/2016 - Animal Detection System in Blacksburg, VA detects animals with 95 percent reliability
- Added: 02/09/2016 - Plan carefully and test technologies rigurously prior to deployment when seeking support for ITS deployments on public transit.
- Added: 02/09/2016 - Archived data management systems benefit planning and decision-making within agencies