Intelligent Transportation Systems Benefits, Costs, and Lessons Learned: 2014 Update Report

Intelligent transportation systems (ITS) provide a proven set of strategies for advancing transportation safety, mobility, and environmental sustainability by integrating communication and information technology applications into the management and operation of the transportation system across all modes. In the future, ITS technologies will transform surface transportation by offering a connected environment among vehicles, the infrastructure and passengers' wireless devices, allowing drivers to send and receive real-time information about potential hazards and road conditions. The U.S. Department of Transportation’s (U.S. DOT) ITS research program focuses on the overall advancement of ITS through investments in emerging ITS technologies, as well as supporting the evaluation of deployed ITS. This report presents information on the benefits, costs, and lessons learned regarding ITS planning, deployment, and operations obtained from almost twenty years of evaluation data. The report is based upon three related Web-based databases, known collectively as the ITS Knowledge Resources (KRs). The Knowledge Resources were developed by the U.S. DOT’s ITS Joint Program Office (JPO) evaluation program to support informed decision making regarding ITS investments by tracking the effectiveness of deployed ITS. The Knowledge Resources contain over eighteen years of summaries of the benefits, costs, and lessons learned of specific ITS implementations, drawn primarily from written sources such as ITS evaluation studies, research syntheses, handbooks, journal articles, and conference papers. They can be accessed online at www.itskrs.its.dot.gov. The report has been developed as a collection of factsheets presenting information on the performance of deployed ITS, as well as information on the costs, and lessons learned regarding ITS deployment and operations. The report has been designed to be flexible for the user. There are a total of 20 factsheets representing the 16 taxonomy areas. Four of the taxonomy areas (arterial management, freeway management, transit management, and driver assistance) have enough data to require more than one factsheet.

• Record URL:
  http://www.itsknowledgeresources.its.dot.gov/its/bcllupdate/pdf/BCLL_2014_Combined_JPO-FINAL.pdf
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• Record URL:
  https://rosap.ntl.bts.gov/view/dot/3475
• Corporate Authors:

  Noblis

  600 Maryland Avenue, SW, Suite 755
  Washington, DC  United States  20024

  Federal Highway Administration

  ITS Joint Program Office
  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Hatcher, Greg
  • Burnier, Carolina
  • Greer, Elizabeth
  • Hardesty, Dawn
  • Hicks, Drennan
  • Jacobi, Amy
  • Lowrance, Cheryl
  • Mercer, Mike
• Publication Date: 2014-6

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; Photos; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 136p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Benefits; Case studies; Costs; Evaluation; Implementation; Intelligent transportation systems; Technological innovations
• Subject Areas: Finance; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Transportation (General); I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01548504
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-JPO-14-159
• Contract Numbers: DTFH61-11-D-00018
• Files: TRIS, ATRI, USDOT
• Created Date: Dec 23 2014 12:08PM