State of ITS: Telling the Intelligent Transportation Systems Success Story for Portland, Oregon

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) professionals in the Portland, Oregon metropolitan area have collaborated on many projects in the recent past, including the creation of a region-wide fiber-optic cable network and traveler information distribution system. Metro, the region’s Metropolitan Planning Organization (MPO), is currently revising its Regional Transportation Plan, and is considering creating a new funding structure especially for ITS projects, which have historically had trouble competing for traditional transportation funds. To encourage this process, members of TransPort, an inter-agency ITS technical advisory committee, are collaborating to produce a “State of ITS in Portland” report highlighting some of the region’s most compelling ITS projects and providing performance measurements where available. The examples are organized into three benefit categories: mobility, safety and cost-effectiveness. The featured programs include transit and truck signal priority, real-time traveler information, freight weigh-in-motion, ramp metering, incident response, road weather information, adaptive signal control and electronic parking payment. The report concludes by describing the potential for future regional collaboration on at-grade rail crossing information sharing and an expansion of the integrated corridor management program. In the report, examples are explained in terms that an intelligent reader who is unfamiliar with ITS jargon can understand, and will eventually be distilled down to a graphics-rich executive summary for top level decision makers.

• Corporate Authors:

  Transportation Research Board

  500 Fifth Street, NW
  Washington, DC  United States  20001
• Authors:
  • Coffman, Max Thorn
  • Makler, Jonathan
• Conference:
  • Transportation Research Board 86th Annual Meeting
  • Location: Washington DC, United States
  • Date: 2007-1-21 to 2007-1-25
• Date: 2007

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: CD-ROM
• Features: Figures; Maps; Photos; References;
• Pagination: 24p
• Monograph Title: TRB 86th Annual Meeting Compendium of Papers CD-ROM

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Decision making; Incident detection; Incident management; Intelligent transportation systems; Metropolitan planning organizations; Mobility; Operations; Ramp metering; Real time information; Regional transportation; Road weather information systems; Traveler information and communication systems; Weigh in motion scales
• Geographic Terms: Portland (Oregon)
• Subject Areas: Administration and Management; Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01049527
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: 07-2902
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: May 21 2007 1:18PM