The term Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) was coined over two decades ago to designate applications of information and communication technologies to the operational management of transportation networks. The main promise of ITS has been very consistent over that period: network capacity can be freed up by optimizing traffic controls and empowering users with accurate travel information. It can be debated how much faith practitioners and policy makers have placed in technology by investing their resources, as well as the extent to which Intelligent Transportation Systems have delivered on their promise. However, there is no question that steady and sometimes spectacular advances in computing technologies and usage trickle down to transportation applications in important ways. As a result, new products and services emerge continuously. They include systems that address the direct needs of networks managers, as well as others that are developed in tangential markets (e.g. automotive) or even through non-market mechanisms (e.g. many mobile web applications). This talk presentation reviews major trends in information and communication technologies and demonstrate how each of them is driving innovative transportation services. We attempt to envision how those trends might develop in the future, so that we can finally examine some of their implications for travel demand and network management. There lie both challenges and opportunities for transportation engineers and planners, but either way, profound changes appear inevitable.

1. Intelligent Transportation J.D. Margulici
Trends and Perspectives jdm@novavia.us
2011 www.novaviasolutions.com
Chapter 1: Introduction
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2. Introduction
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3.  ITS primer and brief history
Intelligent Transportation
 State of the art
Trends and Perspectives
2011
 Information technology trends
 Prospective and implications
J.D. Margulici
jdm@novavia.us
www.novaviasolutions.com

4. ITS Technologies
Algorithms
Location Computing
Telecoms
Sensors
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5. ITS Applications
Traffic Operations (monitoring, dispatch…)
Advanced Traffic Management Systems
Advanced Traveler Information Systems
Public Transit Operations
Tolling / Enforcement
Commercial Vehicle Operations
Intelligent Vehicles
Infrastructure-side Active Safety
Parking Management
Mobility Services
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6. ITS Prehistory
First three-color, four-way traffic light
Detroit, 1920
First Transportation Management Center
Los Angeles, 1971
First inductive loops & ramp metering
Chicago, 1963
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7. Birth of ITS: Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems
Streamline traffic operations
Enable informed route selection
Enhance system performance
Help avoid accidents
Improve mobility
Automatically control vehicles
ATMS ATIS CVO
Advanced Vehicle Control
1991: ISTEA legislation
March 1990 1991: ITS America
Dallas
1994: 1st World Congress, Paris
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8. Automated Highway System
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9. ITS Legacy
“I’m setting a national goal: to build an intelligent transportation infrastructure across the United States to save
time and lives, and improve the quality of life for Americans. I believe that what we do, we must measure . . .
Let us set a very tangible target that will focus our attention . . . I want 75 of our largest metropolitan areas
outfitted with a complete intelligent transportation infrastructure in 10 years.”
-- Secretary Peña, 1996
Freeway Management Electronic Toll Collection
Incident Management Electronic Fare Payment
Arterial Management Highway-Rail
Emergency Management Intersections
Transit Management Regional Multimodal Traveler Information
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10. The World in 2000
38% of Americans have cell phones
Broadband internet use at 6%
NASDAQ hits 5,000
511 becomes national traffic
information calling number
Conformance to National ITS
Architecture required
FCC allocates 5.9 GHz spectrum to
transportation
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11. Back to the future: ITS Deployment in 2000
41%
43%
14%
52%
85%
62%
70%
4%
80%
43%
(projected from 2000)
2007 actuals
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12. What have we learned 2000? Key Issues
The number of Americans having
access to the Internet is growing
Awareness and perception of ITS rapidly, portending increased
Only a handful of adaptive use of ITS applications.
control systems are deployed
Long-range operations and management nationally (SCATS, SCOOT, LA’s
ATSC). Electronic Toll Collection is one
of the fundamental and earliest
Regional deployment deployed ITS technologies.
Optimistically, there will be a
Human resources steady but slow increase in the
use of ITS technologies for
Integrating arterial traffic,
transit management.
Partnering emergency vehicle, transit and
freeway management would all
The lack of traffic flow sensors be important and useful
Ownership and use of resources continues to inhibit the growth advances.
of traveler information and
improved transportation
Hope is that with the addition of
Procurement management systems.
cellular phones and a national
three-digit traveler information
number (511), more deployment
Intellectual property The jury is still out on cellular will occur.
phone geolocation for traffic
Privacy probes.
Emerging technologies include
wireless Internet and automated
Liability information exchange.
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13. ITS Strategic Plan 2000
Conducting research
Accelerating the development of standards
Building professional capacity
Technology
System
Creating funding incentives
Providing guidance and technical assistance
Ensuring consistency with the National ITS Architecture
and standards
Institutions
Evaluating the program
Showcasing benefits
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14.  ITS primer and brief history
Intelligent Transportation
 State of the art
Trends and Perspectives
2011
 Information technology trends
 Prospective and implications
J.D. Margulici
jdm@novavia.us
www.novaviasolutions.com

15. The World in 2010
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16. A Tour of ITS Deployments and Trends
System Management
Traffic Monitoring
Tolling / Enforcement
Vehicle Technologies
Mobility Services
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17. Intelligent Transportation J.D. Margulici
Trends and Perspectives jdm@novavia.us
2011 www.novaviasolutions.com
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Chapter 2: System Management