Implementation of Manual Guidelines for the Inspection of ITS Equipment and Facilities

In a recent study funded by the New Jersey Department of Transportation (NJDOT), Rutgers Intelligent Transportation Systems (RITS) researchers successfully developed a state-of-the-art Intelligent Transportation Systems inspection and maintenance manual (ITSIMM) and Rutgers ITS inspection and maintenance software (RITSIMS) based on ITSIMM. The results of this unique research project were presented at the 2009 Transportation Research Board conference in Washington D.C. in the form of a research paper that was also published in the journal, Transportation Research Record. The Rutgers research team conducted a number of training workshops to introduce RITSIMS to its potential users. RITSIMS was also installed in several NJDOT inspection, maintenance, and operations staff’s computers to allow them to test the software. The initial feedback from these expert users of the manual and its software was very positive both in terms of its operational approach and user-friendly interface. Comments and suggestions of the training session attendees and NJDOT users were solicited to identify possible future improvements. Regarding these recommendations and suggestions, a need for the enhancements in ITSIMM and RITSIMS emerged. The most important enhancements needed were an additional module for changes and additions to be able to add new questions without using the access database tables, an extended database to include the new equipments installed, and the incorporation of the new ITS testing forms in the software. Thus, to ensure RITSIMS' long-term usage as NJDOT’s ITS maintenance and inspection tool, it is important to conduct an implementation study of RITSIMS to obtain the enhanced version, namely Enhanced-RITSIMS (E-RITSIMS). This implementation study will address two major goals: (1) To enhance the contents of the ITSIMM and the software namely, RITSIMS based on the recommendations of the expert users of the manual and software; and (2) To deploy E-RITSIMS for its prospective users from NJDOT operations, inspection and maintenance departments to ensure its use as an efficient tool by NJDOT.

• Record URL:
  http://www.nj.gov/transportation/business/research/reports/FHWA-NJ-2011-002.pdf
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• Summary URL:
  http://www.nj.gov/transportation/business/research/reports/FHWA-NJ-2011-002-TB.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • This research was sponsored by the U.S. Department of Transportation, University Transportation Centers Program.
• Corporate Authors:

  Rutgers University, Piscataway

  Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation, 100 Brett Road
  Piscataway, NJ  United States  08854-8058

  New Jersey Department of Transportation

  Bureau of Research, 1035 Parkway Avenue, P.O. Box 600
  Trenton, NJ  United States  08625-0600

  Federal Highway Administration

  1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
  Washington, DC  United States  20590

  Research and Innovative Technology Administration

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  Washington, DC  United States  20590
• Authors:
  • Ozbay, Kaan
  • Ozguven, Eren Erman
  • 0000-0001-6006-7635
  • Sertel, Tolga
  • Demiroluk, Sami
• Publication Date: 2011-9

Language

• English

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Edition: Final Report
• Features: Appendices; Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: 38p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Computer program documentation; Equipment; Facilities; Inspection; Intelligent transportation systems; Maintenance; Software
• Geographic Terms: New Jersey
• Subject Areas: Highways; Maintenance and Preservation; Operations and Traffic Management;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 01650593
• Record Type: Publication
• Report/Paper Numbers: FHWA-NJ-2011-002
• Files: UTC, TRIS, RITA, ATRI, USDOT, STATEDOT
• Created Date: Nov 6 2017 7:16PM