FONTANA-ONTARIO ADVANCED TRAFFIC MANAGEMENT INFORMATION SYSTEM: LOCALIZED ITS APPLICATIONS--FREEWAY/ARTERIAL INTEGRATION

The cities of Fontana and Ontario are two medium-sized cities located approximately 40 mi (64 km) to the east of downtown Los Angeles, California. To help combat the increase in traffic and manage traffic more efficiently within the city boundaries, the two cities have joined forces and are working with the California Department of Transportation (Caltrans) as well as the Southern California Priority Corridor to implement intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technology. Fontana and Ontario have issued a design-build contract to assist in centralizing traffic management functions and to disseminate traveler information throughout the affected region. The project will develop traffic management functions in Fontana by implementing a centralized traffic signal system; adding closed circuit televisions to key intersections, variable message signs to strategic areas of the city, and a localized HAR system; and integrating an automatic vehicle location system in police patrol vehicles. The traffic management center will control the elements of the system and will be one of the first deployments of the Southern California Priority Corridor "Kernel" software. This will allow coordination of operations and information sharing between a regional traffic management center and a Caltrans district system gathering information on the local freeways, facilitating freeway-arterial integration. The information gathered by the two systems will be disseminated through the use of various media in the Ontario-Fontana region and eventually beyond. The project, once completed, will facilitate the integration of operations and become the foundation of a smart corridor along Interstate 10 in the Southern California region.

• Supplemental Notes:
  • Conference proceedings available only on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Sickler, J
  • Balbach, P
  • Mogharabi, A
• Conference:
  • Transportation Frontiers for the Next Millennium: 69th Annual Meeting of the Institute of Transportation Engineers
  • Location: Las Vegas, Nevada
  • Date: 1999-8-1 to 1999-8-4
• Publication Date: 1999

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 9p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Advanced traffic management systems; Advanced traveler information systems; Arterial highways; Automatic vehicle location; Closed circuit television; Design build; Freeways; Information dissemination; Intelligent transportation systems; Management information systems; Regional transportation; Smart cards; Smart materials; Traffic congestion; Traffic engineering; Traffic signal control systems; Traffic signals; Variable message signs
• Geographic Terms: Fontana (California); Ontario (California); Southern California
• Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00770346
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: Publication No. CD-006
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Oct 25 1999 12:00AM