USDOT Launches Geographical View of National ITS Deployment The USDOT is launching the first-ever ITS Asset Viewer at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) Annual Meeting and Exposition from April 22 to 24, 2013, in Nashville, TN. |
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USDOT Announces 2013 Road Weather Management Stakeholder Meeting |
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USDOT to Host a Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture (CVRIA) Workshop |
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USDOT Presence at 2013 ITS America Annual Meeting |
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USDOT Launches Geographical View of National ITS DeploymentThe USDOT is launching the first-ever ITS Asset Viewer at the Intelligent Transportation Society of America (ITS America) Annual Meeting and Exposition from April 22 to 24, 2013, in Nashville, Tennessee. The ITS Asset Viewer visually displays the location of ITS deployments nationwide, providing a geographic picture of the status of ITS deployment. The ITS Asset Viewer complements the USDOT’s ITS Deployment Tracking Survey, developed for the ITS JPO by Oak Ridge National Laboratory. Conducted 10 times since 1997, the survey measures the extent of ITS deployment within 108 metropolitan areas across the United States. The survey helps guide federal ITS research and program management, inform Congress, and assess the cost and operational impact of ITS at the national scale. However, the survey focuses on the quantity of ITS deployment, not their locations within the metropolitan area. With the advancement of the use of GIS for state asset management, it is now possible to assemble a national database of ITS assets with accurate locations along the Interstate system. The project team launched an effort to gather GIS data from each state department of transportation and assembled the resulting data from a variety of formats into a cohesive picture of national ITS deployment. The viewer visually presents the GIS data from the states (46 states have responded thus far) regarding key ITS technologies such as cameras, messages signs, ramp meters, speed sensors, and roadway weather information systems. Currently, there are over 75,000 assets in the database, and it is expected to grow as the remaining states provide information. Researchers, agencies, and the public at large will benefit from this new data resource and platform for analysis. The deployment of ITS technology can now be integrated with other geospatial information such as evacuation routes, major commercial truck routes, and interstate corridors. Other USDOT resources such as the data from the Highway Performance Monitoring System can also be integrated to support various analyses. State agencies will be able to get a picture of how other states have deployed assets to address operational needs, such as along major arterials or around special event venues. The information can also help to correlate ITS deployment with traffic volume or average speed and determine where deployment gaps may exist. “Combining volume, speed, and treatment types opens the lid for all new types of analyses,” notes David Schrank of the Texas Transportation Institute. The USDOT expects that the nationwide launch of the viewer will encourage other cities, states, and toll agencies to provide their ITS data for inclusion. There are plans to build new functionality into the ITS Asset Viewer to support reports, data downloads, or access via web services, including mechanisms to allow agencies to update their ITS deployment data easily. The result will be a more comprehensive and detailed map of ITS deployment nationwide. Visit http://www.its.dot.gov/assetviewer. |
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USDOT Presence at the First Annual Global Symposium on Connected Vehicles and InfrastructureMay 14 – 16, 2013, University of Michigan North Campus Research Complex, Ann Arbor, MI |
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USDOT Announces 2013 Road Weather Management Stakeholder MeetingThe Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) will be sponsoring its annual Road Weather Management Stakeholder Meeting on July 16-18, 2013, in Little Rock, Arkansas. The meeting provides a venue for peer exchange between the transportation and weather community, consisting of state departments of transportation (DOTs), academia, vendors, weather service providers, and consultants. |
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USDOT Launches a Transportation Data-Sharing SystemThe USDOT's Research and Innovative Technology Administration and Federal Highway Administration have released the first version of the Research Data Exchange (RDE), a transportation data-sharing system that promotes sharing of archived and real-time data from multiple sources and multiple modes. This new data-sharing capability will support the needs of ITS researchers and developers while reducing costs and encouraging innovation. Data accessible through the RDE is quality checked, well documented, and available to the public.
Each of these data environments consists of multiple data sets and supporting metadata files. Additional data environments will be created as data become available from projects related to the connected vehicle program, whether or not they are funded by USDOT. |
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USDOT to Host a Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture (CVRIA) WorkshopThe USDOT is hosting a CVRIA workshop from April 30 to May 1, 2013, to gain important feedback from stakeholders in the manufacture, development, deployment, operation, or maintenance of connected vehicle technologies and applications. Connected vehicles will leverage wireless technology to enable communication among vehicles, roadside infrastructure, and personal mobile devices and maximize safety, mobility, and environmental performance. The CVRIA workshop will discuss and solicit feedback on preliminary system architecture viewpoints for the technologies and applications within the connected vehicle environment. |
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USDOT Presence at 2013 ITS America Annual MeetingConnected Vehicle 101 Workshop How We Pay for Maintaining and Improving Transportation Infrastructure Transformative Innovations: Connected Vehicles and Beyond SS06: Integrated Corridor Management (ICM) Demonstrations Go Live USDOT Programs Update SS19: USDOT National ITS architecture and Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture (CVRIA) Program Updates TS03: Weather Management TS04: Deployment Tools and Lessons SS28: Connected Vehicle: Vehicle-to-Vehicle Safety Pilot and Model DeploymentWednesday, April 24, 9:30 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. |
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