Rapid advances in information processing and communications technology have created new opportunities for transportation professionals to deliver safer and more efficient transportation services, and to respond proactively to increasing demand for transportation. However, many of these new opportunities are predicated upon effective coordination between organizations at both an institutional and technical level. To encourage and enable this coordination, the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) has developed the Architecture Reference for Cooperative and Intelligent Transportation (ARC-IT), also known as the National Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Architecture, and related tools to help identify and exploit these opportunities for cost-effective cooperation. This Regional ITS Architecture Guide is one such tool. It describes how to develop and use a regional ITS architecture, which is a cornerstone of planning for effective inter-agency coordination and for deployment and operation of technology-based projects.
The US Department Of Transportation’s Model Deployment Initiative (MDI) program isintegrating and extending the existing ITS infrastructure in four ...
A consistent and simple methodology was developed to assess both the level of deployment of individual ITS elements and the level of integration betwe...
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