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Research to develop an ITS strategic plan for Texas.
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2014-04-01
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Abstract:TxDOT’s mission is to provide safe and reliable transportation solutions for the citizens of Texas. Intelligent
transportation systems (ITS) can play a pivotal role in meeting that mission. TxDOT can take advantage of
advanced and emerging technologies to enhance safety and promote reliability by ensuring that travelers see
the transportation network as a seamless system that helps get them to their destinations and deliver goods
and services to the citizens of Texas with as little disruption as possible. ITS is a critical component of the
transportation infrastructure that helps ensure the system operates in the most efficient way possible every
day, every night, and during all types of situations and weather conditions. TxDOT has four primary goals
related to meeting its mission. These goals are: maintain a safe system, address congestion, connect Texas
communities, and become a best-in-class state agency. The agency cannot hope to successfully meet these
goals without ITS in its arsenal of strategies to advance transportation across the state. This report
documents the research that was undertaken to develop the ITS Strategic Plan for Texas. This research
included an assessment of current U.S. trends in ITS and related initiatives, interviews with ITS stakeholders
across Texas to determine needs, and a peer state review. The plan provides a framework to guide the
development and deployment of an integrated statewide program for Intelligent Transportation Systems. The
Texas Transportation Commission, TxDOT, as well as the broad community of ITS providers, stakeholders,
and agency partners, will use this plan to promote the development, deployment, and use of ITS statewide. If
this plan is to succeed, it needs the cooperation of all affected groups involved in ITS and transportation
planning, design, funding, and implementation in the state.
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