CO-LOCATION? VIRTUAL OR ACTUAL? THAT IS THE QUESTION!

More and more traffic management agencies are asking these questions as deployment of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies mature. The management requirements agencies face on a daily basis has become even more entangled due to threats of terrorism and pressure to develop inter-agency and regional responses to large disruptions of personal daily routines. The advent of ITS has provided a means to go beyond traditional concepts of managing the transportation infrastructure. Now transportation management systems provide an ability to actively "operate" the infrastructure to provide a higher level of service, safety and responsiveness to all "users" both public and private. As an outgrowth of this demand for coordinated action there has been a parallel growth in the focus on establishing "co-located" centers. These centers would house not only all of the transportation management agencies within a region (or potentially even a state) but would also include the Public Safety, Public Service and Emergency Management agencies from that same geographic zone. This has then raised the issue of physical versus virtual co-location of operations centers. This paper highlights the concerns to be addressed before adopting one of these paths to the future. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134653.

• Authors:
  • FRANKLIN, T
• Publication Date: 2006

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8p
• Serial:
  • PROCEEDINGS OF THE 13th ITS WORLD CONGRESS, LONDON, 8-12 OCTOBER 2006

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Conferences; Emergencies; Incident detection; Intelligent transportation systems; Level of service; Planning; Regional planning; Safety; Terrorism; Traffic control
• ITRD Terms: 8525: Conference; 2184: Emergency; 1632: Incident detection; 8735: Intelligent transport system; 653: Level of service; 143: Planning; 359: Regional planning; 1665: Safety; 9131: Terrorism; 654: Traffic control
• Subject Areas: Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Safety and Human Factors; Security and Emergencies; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01083961
• Record Type: Publication
• Source Agency: Transport Research Laboratory
• Files: ITRD
• Created Date: Jan 7 2008 1:30PM