| When: | March 12-13, 2001 |
| Where: | East West Center, Jefferson Hall, Asia Room 1777 East West Road |
| Time: | 8:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m. |
| Cost: | FREE |
| Contact: | Juli Kobayashi at 956-9006, 956-8851 (FAX) or juli@eng.hawaii.edu Deadline to register is Monday, March 7, 2001 |
*NOTE: Attendance is limited to 40 participants, so please register early.
The purpose of this module is to provide an overview of ITS standards to practicing transportation professionals and policy makers who are engaged in the deployment of ITS. This module will broaden their understanding of ITS, ITS standards and associated topics that impact operations of ITS systems. Information will be provided on the various standards that are being developed. (i.e. NTCIP, ATC, ATIS, TMDD, IEEE, IMDD, DSRC, CVO, TCIP)
Traffic Management Centers, Transportation Operation Centers, Transit Operation Centers, Emergency Management Centers, 911-call centers etc. have traditionally been built and operated from agency and jurisdictional viewpoints. In recent years ITS has established the need for these centers and others to communicate and share information with each other in a broader interdependent community. This new perspective has created a need for exchanging information in real-time. In recent years ITE and its partners have developed to define traffic management functional data elements from which messages can be constructed and which in turn can be uniformly interpreted throughout the collection of ITS subsystems. With this and similar standards as a base resource, two emerging standards are available to transmit this information across the ITS infrastructure. These two standards, DATEX-ASN and CORBA, each have certain advantages and disadvantages in terms of deployment suitability. This module will also include the TMDD and related message standards that provide the information base for these standards.
This course will provide focused information on actuated traffic signals for transportation professionals, who are planning, designing, procuring, deploying and operating these ITS field devices. There are an estimated 270,000 traffic signals in the United States that have been provided from various manufacturers. These devices don’t share a common communications protocol and pose a serious challenge to integration in an ITS environment. Further, they pose a significant burden to many public agencies because of their lack of interchangeability in existing systems. These conditions provide ample incentive for the public agency marketplace to move forward with traffic signal ITS standards.
Mr. Cheeks is the Standards Development Manager for the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) in Washington, D.C. He has over 20 years experience in Traffic and Transportation Engineering and is currently responsible for managing and directing ITE’s Standards Development Program. He administers the development of national and international standards for intelligent transportation systems and traffic control equipment, by working with volunteer committees, government agencies, consultants and industry personnel.
Dr. Edward Seymour is a Division Head with the Texas Transportation Institute (TTI) in Dallas, Texas. TTI is the transportation research branch of the Texas A&M University System. He has assisted ITE in preparing the ITS Standards Outreach, Education and Training Program course materials.
Mr. Olson has over 20 years experience in the field of traffic signal system design and construction. He has been instrumental in the development of standards to the Advanced Transportation Controller and Signal Control Priority. He currently serves as the ITE Technology Engineer for the Federal Highway Administration Western Resource Center in San Francisco.