WIRELINE COMMUNICATIONS REQUIREMENTS, ARCHITECTURES, AND COSTS IN SUPPORT OF THE ITS CORE INFRASTRUCTURE

Communications are recognized as an important and potentially costly component of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). In this paper, the authors examine architectures, requirements and costs of a dedicated wireline communications network that could support the deployment of core ITS infrastructure elements in a major metropolitan area over the next five to ten years. This paper undertakes the following tasks: Describes a set of ITS user services and centers for the core ITS infrastructure; Describes a model city in terms of its size, highways and roads, types of ITS specific devices (e.g., traffic signals, and cameras), and ITS centers (e.g., traffic management centers); Defines alternative treatments of sending video signals from cameras to traffic and transit management centers which serve as the basis for two communications architecture scenarios; Develops communications bandwidth requirements for the alternative scenarios; Develops and describes the physical architectures for each of the scenarios; and Develops illustrative costs estimates for each of the communications architecture scenarios over a ten year period.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Page range: pp 1038-1044
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Arden, R
  • Esrig, Y K
  • Aguilar, E M
  • Gannett, J W
• Conference:
  • Intelligent Transportation: Realizing the Benefits. Proceedings of the 1996 Annual Meeting of ITS America.
  • Location: Houston, TX
  • Date: 1996-4-15 to 1996-4-18
• Publication Date: 1996

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 7p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Alternatives analysis; Architecture; Cameras; Communication systems; Communications; Consumers; Costs; Deployment; Forecasting; Highway traffic control; Infrastructure; Intelligent transportation systems; Level of service; Metropolitan areas; Scale models; Specifications; Structural models; Traffic signals
• Uncontrolled Terms: Requirements; Services; Users
• Old TRIS Terms: Support systems
• Subject Areas: Bridges and other structures; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00724836
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 27 1996 12:00AM