Louisiana Transportation Research Center

NTL-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

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Intelligent Transportation Systems are integrated systems of advanced

information and communication technologies to improve safety, operation,

and productivity of surface transportation systems. Such systems have been

deployed nationwide in metropolitan areas and are capable of collecting

massive amounts of data that can be eff ectively used to achieve the main

mission of ITS. To date, only a few states have recognized the need to mine this

data for potential use in a variety of online and off -line applications, which are

becoming more critical to both transportation systems users and providers. In

the state of Louisiana, the ITS program at the Department of Transportation and

Development (DOTD) has been rapidly growing in the past few years, and major

ITS instrumentation eff orts have been made on freeways and state highways

in order to allow state transportation authorities to better serve the traveling

public. In order to achieve this goal, there is a pressing need to secure a data

warehouse to collect, store, and analyze as much ITS data as possible. Following

the practice of several other states, an ITS lab has been proposed to serve as a

centralized location for all ITS data from all available sources within the state of

Louisiana. The lab is to be established at LTRC to facilitate the collection of data

from all possible sources over the DOTD network. The fi rst phase of the ITS lab

was completed in 2009 wherein a feasibility study was completed and evaluated

with the recommendation to proceed with the acquisition of all supporting

equipment for full scale implementation of the ITS lab.

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