ITS Strategic Plan

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ITS Strategic Plan

• Shelley Row
• Director, ITS Joint Program Office
• Research and Innovative Technology Administration
• U.S. Department of Transportation

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ITS Strategic Planning Process

• Trends
• Interview ITS Advisory Committee members
• Interview USDOT modal staff
• JPO staff input
• End state visioning
• Opportunities
• Barriers
• Draft mission, goals and focus areas
• Gathering input

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Mission Goal Areas

• JPOs mission is to lead the creation
  demonstration of intelligent technology solutions
  to achieve the safest best performing surface
  transportation system in the world.
• Goal Areas
• Safety
• Mobility
• Environment
• 21st Century Institutions, Innovations, and
  Partnerships

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ITS Strategic Plan

• Observations of the ITS Within USDOT
• Specific ITS applications are moving forward
  through leadership in the modal administrations
  (FHWA, FTA, FMCSA, NHTSA)
• Signal systems
• Freeway traffic incident management
• Transit management
• CVISN
• ITS program should focus on a few high-leverage
  issues
• Potential for significant pay off at a national
  scale
• Issues that transcend a single mode

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Goal Safety
Achieve measurable reduction in crashes,
injuries, fatalities, and the associated economic
costs Challenge Reduce 90 of all crashes,
injuries, and fatalities by 2029

• Focus
• Intelligent Vehicle Create capability for all
  vehicles to have 360 degree awareness of hazards,
  and communicate appropriately with drivers to
  prevent crashes

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Goal Mobility
Achieve measurable improvements in mobility,
system performance, and economic productivity
through research demonstration of ITS technology

• Focus
• Realize complete transportation system visibility
• Real time data on all roads, all modes, all the
  time
• To enable performance measurement across the
  transportation system
• To catalyze the development of applications to
  optimize network performance
• To enable delivery of end-to-end transportation
  information for trip planning (personal
  business)

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Goal Mobility
Achieve measurable improvements in mobility,
system performance, and economic productivity
through research demonstration of ITS
technology

• Focus
• Integrated electronic payment systems
• Enable seamless payment processing
• Provide complete trip payment
• Integrate parking, transit, congestion pricing,
  tolling

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Goal Environment/Energy
Achieve improvement in air quality and reductions
in fuel consumption Challenge Reduce fuel
consumption and carbon emissions by 40 by 2029

• Focus
• Conduct research to understand relationship
  between technology-enabled congestion reduction
  safety improvement with environmental impacts
  (carbon footprint fuel efficiency)

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Goal 21st Century Institutions, Innovations, and
Partnerships
Foster new institutional relationships to
accelerate use of technologies in transportation

• Focus
• Research new public-private partnerships to
  improve the deployment and use of ITS
  technologies in transportation
• Examine innovative financing models to foster use
  of ITS technologies in transportation
• Identify and research solutions to address
  institutional barriers in the use of ITS
  technologies in transportation

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ITS Joint Program Office Roles

• Federal roles can range from
• Science
• Basic RD
• Applied RD
• Technology Transfer to commercialization
• Operational Demonstration
• Deployment
• Appropriate roles will vary based on focus area
• Roles are under discussion development

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ITS Strategic Plan

• Other Activities
• Look to the next generation technology solutions
• Leverage worldwide research
• Support the basics
• Architecture
• Standards
• Professional Capacity Building
• Information Clearinghouse

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ITS Strategic Plan

• Next Steps
• Comments on mission, goal and focus areas
• Further Development
• Description of focus areas
• Objectives for each focus area
• Develop metrics for each objective
• Clarify Federal role
• Develop an action plan
• Gather input and refine
• Publish the updated Program Plan
• Update on current program status
• New section on the Strategic Vision and Action
  Plan

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ITS Strategic Plan

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