BENEFITS OF OPTICAL FIBER VS. COPPER OR COAXIAL TRANSMISSION MEDIA IN ITS SYSTEMS

As ITS system deployment accelerates, state and local traffic managers and transportation engineers are wrestling with the issue of how technically sophisticated ITS communications systems should be. They are evaluating when to upgrade copper or coaxial cable transmission media to optical fiber, which has been universally deployed throughout the United States in telephone and cable TV applications. Optical fiber provides the requisite bandwidth and the capability to traverse required distances for future ITS service growth. Consideration therefore must be given to the benefits and long-term economies of optical technology as jurisdictions ponder their communications media decision during planning, design and deployment of ITS systems. Present demands on ITS systems make it reasonable to consider fiber's capabilities; tomorrow's ITS communications requirements will demand it.

• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

  1100 17th Street, NW, 12th Floor
  Washington, DC  United States  20036
• Authors:
  • Abernathy, B
  • Richards, M A
  • Niebur, D
• Conference:
  • Intelligent Transportation: Serving the User Through Deployment. Proceedings of the 1995 Annual Meeting of ITS America.
  • Location: Washington, D.C.
  • Date: 1995-3-15 to 1995-3-17
• Publication Date: 1995

Language

• English

Media Info

• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: p. 859-868

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Coaxial cables; Communication systems; Copper; Intelligent transportation systems; Mass media; Optical waveguides
• Old TRIS Terms: Communication media
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I10: Economics and Administration;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00682721
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Aug 31 1995 12:00AM