Application of System Engineering to a Major Integrated Corridor Mobility Project

This paper describes the application of systems engineering to a major innovative transportation project in the San Francisco Bay Area, the Interstate 80 (I-80) Integrated Corridor Mobility (ICM) Project. In addition to being one of the first applications of Active Traffic Management (ATM) to a freeway corridor in the U.S.A., it is also one of the first detailed applications of formal systems engineering processes to a major highway traffic management project in the U.S.A. ATM involves providing instrumentation and signaling to actively manage the speed, lane availability and accessibility of a highway in real time to maximize the efficiency of the facility. While many highway projects have followed the principles of systems engineering in the past, this project has closely followed the structure provided by the Federal Highways Administration’s (FHWA) Systems Engineering Guidebook for ITS. In addition, the definition of requirements and development of an RFP for system integration has drawn heavily on the Systems Engineering Handbook (INCOSE, 2009). The entire requirements development process has been managed through the use of the IBM Rational DOORS requirements software.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS Japan

  Tokyo,   Japan 

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036

  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050
• Authors:
  • Fehon, Tim
  • Fehon, Kevin
  • Shamsikhou, Habib
  • Shinn, Rich
• Conference:
  • 17th ITS World Congress
  • Location: Busan , Korea, South
  • Date: 2010-10-25 to 2010-10-29
• Publication Date: 2010

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References;
• Pagination: 11p
• Monograph Title: 17th ITS World Congress, Busan, 2010: Proceedings

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Highway traffic control systems; Systems engineering
• Identifier Terms: Interstate-80 Integrated Corridor Mobility Project
• Uncontrolled Terms: Active traffic management
• Geographic Terms: San Francisco Bay Area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01368781
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 30 2012 7:53AM