In 1997, the U.S. Department of Transportation initiated an effort to track progress toward fulfillment of this goal by conducting a survey of deployment in the nation's largest metropolitan areas. Traditionally, the product of a transportation infrastructure investment consists of a fixed asset such as a highway, bridge, or public transportation vehicle developed, constructed, or purchased by a single agency. Tracking the level of deployment for such traditional fixed assets can be accomplished by simply counting the number of such assets deployed. Measuring the deployment of the metropolitan ITS infrastructure is more complex because it consists of a set of systems, often deployed by multiple agencies, and integrated through a combination of complex institutional and technical arrangements. In brief, it is often difficult to simply count the number of systems deployed without first devising a measurement approach that captures the essential features of such systems in a consistent fashion across many deployment environments. In order to track progress toward fulfillment of the Secretary's goal for deployment, the U.S. Department of Transportation ITS Joint Program Office developed the metropolitan ITS deployment tracking methodology. This methodology tracks deployment of the nine components that make up the Metropolitan ITS infrastructure: Freeway Management; Incident Management; Arterial Management; Emergency Management; Transit Management; Electronic Toll Collection; Electronic Fare Payment; Highway-Rail Intersections; and Regional Multimodal Traveler Information. Through a set of indicators tied to the major functions of each component, the level of deployment is tracked for the nation's largest metropolitan areas.
Tracking the Deployment of the Integrated Metropolitan ITS Infrastructure in Pittsburgh, Beaver Valley. FY99 Results
2000
96 pages
Report
Keine Angabe
Englisch
Transportation & Traffic Planning , Transportation , Road Transportation , Metropolitan areas , Deployment , Infrastructure , Transportation management , Pennsylvania , Intermodal transportation systems , Freeways , Implementation , Information systems , Highway management , Traffic management , Road transit interchanges , Traffic signal controllers , Computer controlled signals , Automatic transportation systems , Systems integration , Toll roads , Fare collection , Regional analysis , Surveys , ITS(Intelligent Transportation Systems) , Intelligent Transportation Systems , Pittsburgh(Pennsylvania) , Beaver Valley(Pennsylvania) , Emergency management