THE CICERO AVENUE SMART CORRIDOR: AN ITS INITIATIVE FOR CHICAGO'S MIDWAY AIRPORT AREA

The Cicero Smart Corridor initiative is a multi-agency effort led by the Chicago Department of Transportation (CDOT) to bring wider use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) on Cicero Avenue in the vicinity of Midway Airport and the Stevenson Expressway (I-55). The corridor scope calls for considering a variety of actions to better monitor and manage the flow of people and vehicles through a heavily traveled area, and to supply more real-time travel condition information to the public and to operators. The ultimate goals are to increase efficiency and reduce travel times in the area. The paper summarizes the on-going Cicero Avenue Smart Corridor planning and conceptual design effort, including implementation status. The corridor plan has developed keeping the National ITS Architecture in mind. To fit the work into the Regional ITS architecture, the work has made use of Version 1.0 of Turbo Architecture released in May 2000, a software tool to help create either a project or regional architecture. The specific application bridges a gap between a project architecture and a developing regional architecture. In effect, an initial trial run of the software tool is presented, and both its good and bad points are discussed.

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  Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE)

  Washington, DC  United States 
• Authors:
  • Powell, J L
• Conference:
  • ITE 2001 Annual Meeting and Exhibit
  • Location: Chicago, Illinois, USA
  • Date: 2001-8-19 to 2001-8-22
• Publication Date: 2001-8

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 27p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Airports; Design; Highway traffic; Implementation; Intelligent transportation systems; Operators (Persons); Pedestrian flow; Planning; Real time information; Software; System design; Traffic flow; Transportation corridors; Travel time
• Identifier Terms: Chicago Midway International Airport; National ITS Architecture
• Geographic Terms: Chicago (Illinois)
• Subject Areas: Aviation; Design; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Research; Terminals and Facilities; Vehicles and Equipment; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00921863
• Record Type: Publication
• ISBN: 0935403620
• Report/Paper Numbers: CD-013
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Mar 25 2002 12:00AM