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Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Projects Book (2001)
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2001-01-01
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Alternative Title:Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Projects Book 2001 2001 Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Projects Book
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NTL Classification:NTL-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS;NTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICY;
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Abstract:Surface transportation systems in the United States today face a number of significant challenges. Congestion and safety continue to present serious problems in spite of the nation’s superb roadway systems. Congestion imposes an exorbitant cost on productivity, costing the nation an estimated $40 billion per year. Vehicle crashes cause another $150 billion burden to the economy, and result in the loss of 40,000 lives annually. Inefficient surface transportation, whether in privately owned vehicles, commercial motor carriers, or public transit vehicles, constitutes a burden on the nation’s quality of life through wasted energy, increased emissions and serious threats to public safety. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), formerly Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems (IVHS), offer technology-based solutions to the compelling challenges confronting the nation’s surface transportation systems, while concurrently establishing the basis for dealing with future demands through a strategic, intermodal view of transportation. ITS applications offer proven and emerging technologies in fields such as data processing, communications, control, navigation, electronics and the supporting hardware and software systems capable of addressing transportation challenges. The current edition of this document continues to categorize both legacy projects, originating under ISTEA, and those begun since the enactment of TEA-21, according to this restructured program organization.
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