LOW-COST, SIMPLE SOLUTIONS TO TRANSPORTATION PROBLEMS

This paper describes the Rural Outreach Project, performed for the U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), which identified and described proven, cost effective solutions for rural transportation-related problems or needs. The definition used during the project for these "simple solutions" was that an application need not be currently considered an intelligent transportation system (ITS) as such, but that it should represent a technology-based, effective, practical solution for an existing or impending problem. The paper describes the approach utilized in the study, and describes some of the findings. What was discovered during this study was that numerous low-cost, small-scale, localized implementations of technology are in place across the U.S. For the covering abstract, see IRRD 490001.

• Corporate Authors:

  ERTICO

  326 Avenue Louis
  Brussels,   Belgium  B-1050

  ITS America

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

  VERTIS

  TORANOMOM 34 MORI BUILDING 1-25-5
  TORANOMON, MINATOKU, TOKYO 105  Japan 
• Authors:
  • Bland, C E
  • Deeter, D
  • Pisano, P
• Conference:
  • MOBILITY FOR EVERYONE. 4TH WORLD CONGRESS ON INTELLIGENT TRANSPORT SYSTEMS, 21-24 OCTOBER 1997, BERLIN. (PAPER NO. 1084)
• Publication Date: 1997

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8 p.

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Costs; Intelligent transportation systems; Minimization; Rural areas; Technology; Transportation
• Uncontrolled Terms: Minimum
• Geographic Terms: United States
• ITRD Terms: 8531: Case study; 8525: Conference; 224: Cost; 9046: Minimum; 328: Rural area; 3855: Technology; 1155: Transport; 8122: USA
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Transportation (General);

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00757105
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Dec 17 1998 12:00AM