HIGH-TECH HIGHWAYS: INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS AND POLICY

In establishing the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) program, the Congress enunciated a set of diverse objectives -- including reducing congestion, making travel safer, increasing productivity, and safeguarding the environment -- to be achieved through advanced technologies. To meet those goals, the Department of Transportation is sponsoring several hundred projects to research, develop, test, and deploy new technologies. The projects are mostly small in scale, with average funding of about $1 million, and grouped into several major clusters: travel and transportation management, travel demand management, public transportation operations, electronic payment, commercial vehicle operations, emergency management, advanced vehicle control and safety systems, corridor programs, development of a systems architecture, and deployment planning and support. This study provides a midcourse review of the ITS program and presents options that the Congress may wish to consider in reauthorizing it. In keeping with the Congressional Budget Office's mandate to provide nonpartisan analysis, this study makes no recommendations.

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  Congressional Budget Office

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• Publication Date: 1995-10

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; Tables;
• Pagination: 53 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automated vehicle control; Commercial vehicles; Corridors; Development; Disasters and emergency operations; Electronic equipment; Environmental protection; Highways; Intelligent transportation systems; Payment; Policy; Public transit; Research; System design; Technological innovations; Traffic congestion; Traffic safety; Transportation operations; Travel demand management
• Uncontrolled Terms: Research and development; Transportation management
• Old TRIS Terms: Electronic means
• Subject Areas: Environment; Finance; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Policy; Public Transportation; Research; Safety and Human Factors; Vehicles and Equipment; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00724618
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0160483956
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 22 1996 12:00AM