INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS

As the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan area enters the twenty-first century it needs to find ways to get more from its existing transportation infrastructure if it is to remain a leading metropolitan center of the world. This research focuses on this region's needs and opportunities for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The objective of the research is to enable the New York-New Jersey Metropolitan region to make intelligent use of its vast multi-modal infrastructure. It assembles the current knowledge on ITS for each of the region's modes of transportation and prepares a qualitative regional plan for ITS. Finally, it quantifies the macro-scale opportunities for ITS and develops methodologies for quantifying the measures of effectiveness for ITS projects. While other ITS efforts have been largely oriented toward automobiles, the transportation system in the New York-New Jersey region is truly multi-modal and inter-modal in nature. Each transportation mode provides significant contributions to this region's transportation infrastructure by itself and in combination with other modes. Therefore, within the context of this region, it is important that this distinctive multi-modal characteristic be exploited.

• Corporate Authors:

  University Transportation Research Center

  City College of New York
  Marshak Hall, Suite 910, 160 Convent Avenue
  New York, NY  United States  10031
• Authors:
  • Kornhauser, A L
  • Huber, E C
  • Saito, M
  • Parker, N
• Publication Date: 1993-5-23

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: v.p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Infrastructure; Intelligent transportation systems; Intermodal transportation; Multimodal transportation; Regional transportation; Transportation modes
• Geographic Terms: New Jersey; New York Metropolitan Area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00761156
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Final Report
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 21 1999 12:00AM