Gearing Up for SafeTrip-21

SafeTrip-21 is a new intelligent transportation system (ITS) initiative that leverages the Internet and other advanced communication, information and navigation technologies. This article provides an overview of SafeTrip-21 and its potential benefits. SafeTrip-21 seeks to demonstrate the near-term safety and mobility benefits of improved situational awareness; real-time traffic, parking, and transit information; data collected by vehicle probes; and the ease of electronic payment. SafeTrip-21 supplies the tools and methods for State and local transportation agencies to collect and disseminate traffic and safety information in a multimodal environment. States will benefit with real-time information that will empower them to make better decisions to reduce congestion, pollution, gridlock, and transportation- related injuries and fatalities. Through SafeTrip-21, the U.S. Department of Transportation will build upon its vehicle infrastructure integration research and the success of ITS assets already in place. Combining the Internet with the latest ITS technologies provides myriad opportunities for travelers to be directly linked to one another and to central information databases in ways never before seen. SafeTrip-21 is poised to be the springboard for a new direction that is paved with features leading to a better-integrated, safer, and more reliable national transportation system. SafeTrip-21 embodies not only the largest multimodal ITS test in the world but also one of the largest tests of traffic probe data ever undertaken. An inaugural SafeTrip-21 field test site is scheduled to be established in the San Francisco Bay area, and preliminary findings should be available in 2009.

• Record URL:
  http://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/08sep/02.cfm
• Availability:
  • Find a library where document is available. Order URL: http://worldcat.org/oclc/1586080
• Authors:
  • Bell, Ellen
  • Dinning, Michael
  • Kay, Michael
  • Ritter, Gary
  • Smith, John C
  • Steward, Sian
• Publication Date: 2008-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Print
• Features: Figures; Photos;
• Pagination: pp 10-15
• Serial:
  • Public Roads
  • Volume: 72
  • Issue Number: 2
  • Publisher: Federal Highway Administration
  • ISSN: 0033-3735
  • Serial URL: https://www.fhwa.dot.gov/publications/publicroads/
• Publication flags:

  Open Access (libre)

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Automobile navigation systems; Communication systems; Field tests; Intelligent transportation systems; Internet; Multimodal transportation; Real time information; Traffic data
• Identifier Terms: SafeTrip-21; U.S. Department of Transportation
• Geographic Terms: San Francisco Bay Area
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01114902
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, ATRI
• Created Date: Nov 25 2008 7:30AM