ITS America Update:

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ITS America Update 511 _at_ 2005 World Congress
National 511 Coalition Working Group Meeting Los
Angeles, CA December 8-9, 2005 Heather
Young, ITS America Dir. Transportation
Information Programs
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2005 World Congress Stats
7,139 World Congress Delegates 150
Exhibitors on the Floor 56 Participating
Countries 40 IMS Demonstrations 33
Travel Info Sessions 4 Days in San
Fran 3 511 Sessions 2 511
Demos 1 511 Dinner
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The Mission

• Moderate 511 Session
• Observe traveler information sessions to take
  note of
• emerging technologies
• International travel information systems
• interoperability solutions lessons learned
• sustainable business models
• Observe 511 IMS demos
• Post 511 _at_ World Congress article on website
• Update 511 Working Group

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Traveler Information Sessions

• 33 sessions
• 3 sessions on 511 ? 1Special Session, 2
  Technical Sessions

• 26 diverse Technical Sessions
• navigation systems, map databases
• trip planning, travel time calculations
• customized user services

• unique systems deployment, 511
• data quality collection methods, tools
• driver behavior

• 5 Special Sessions
• locations-based satellite systems
• future map databases, digital maps
• dynamic content, 511 user needs

• 1 Scientific Session
• evaluation of deployed ITS

• 1 European Session
• collection, distribution ownership

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Sessions Points of Interest

• Intelligent Personalized Transportation
  Information efficient, real-time, customized
  travel information (United Kingdom)
• Next Generation NorGuide smart static
  dynamic multimodal information, web-based
  system (Norway)
• Cooperative Cross-border Travel Information
  System regional municipalities to serve
  specific communities with Federal oversight
  (Netherlands)
• Integration of Personal Wireless Devices opt
  in services for receiving real-time travel
  information via personal wireless devices (U.S.)

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511 Sessions

• Presentations
• 511 Deployment Coalitions Achievements
  Aspirations
• Data Collection Opportunities in 511/TravInfo
• Fulfilling User Needs in the Development of the
  Bay Areas 511
• Integration Interoperability in the Design of
  the Illinois 511
• Reporting Driving Times in the Bay Area 511
• Testing Evaluating Features of the Bay Areas
  511
• Visionary 511 Technologies Services
• Speakers Bob Rupert, Jim Wright, Rick Schuman,
  David Lively, Tony Chir,
• Melanie Crotty, Larry
  Sweeney, Pete Costello, David Zavattero,
• Ken Aparri, Shauna Callow,
  John Hillman, Guy Rousseau

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511 IMS Demos

• 511TV
• an automated traveler-TV program, to provide
  real-time, multi-modal, traveler information
  for Bay Area residents and visitors on TV sets
  in their homes, offices, and hotel rooms
• Tele Atlas, KMTP, TV32 and MTC, in cooperation
  with Caltrans and the California Highway
  Patrol
• My 511
• door-to-door, voice-enabled routing by specific
  site or address identification, as well as
  access to real-time traffic data
• featured ATX voice technology and live parking
  garage data from Parking Carma
• MTC, ATX, and NAVTEQ

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Observations Conclusions

• Demonstrated International interest in
  abbreviated dialing code(s) for traveler
  information systems (Finland, Australia, UK)
• Travel information systems services dependent
  on web personal wireless devices, including
  in-vehicle navigation systems
• Business models for sustainability will depend
  on integration of technologies (web, cells
  phones, PDAs, podcasts, etc.) for delivery
• Cooperative business models between
  municipalities, and/or between private and
  public sectors possible for expanding systems
  services

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Contact Information
Heather Young, ITS America Director,
Transportation Information Programs hyoung_at_itsa.o
rg http//www.itsa.org (P) 202.721.4226
(F) 202.484.3483 1100 17th Street, NW Suite
1200 Washington, DC 20036