DEVELOPMENT OF A REGIONAL ARCHITECTURE IN COLUMBUS, OHIO

The Mid-Ohio Regional Planning Commission (MORPC) developed a Regional Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Architecture for central Ohio using the National ITS Architecture developed by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) as a guide. The central Ohio architecture was developed by MORPC staff with a review by FHWA midway through the development process. Training in how to use the National ITS Architecture was also provided by FHWA. This project holds particular interest in that it was accomplished solely by agency staff without consulting resources at a time when the FHWA Rule for conformity to the National ITS Architecture was still under development. Over the years MORPC has been involved in and conducted a series of studies concerning the application of ITS elements in central Ohio. MORPC formed a public/private ITS stakeholders group to discuss ITS activities in central Ohio and developed a vision that was designed to drive ITS efforts in the region. Initially the support for ITS in central Ohio was traffic-centric, but as projects and thinking evolved, supporters of this effort turned from exclusively traffic engineers from the Ohio Department of Transportation (ODOT), the city of Columbus and ITS Ohio to also include individuals that had previously not been covered under the ITS umbrella. This new group brought in members from the Ohio Department of Public Safety (ODPS), the Central Ohio Transit Authority (COTA), The Ohio State University (OSU), the Automobile Association of America (AAA) and other transportation and emergency service stakeholders. MORPC was looking for new ways to keep this group of diverse stakeholders communicating and the ITS momentum alive in the region, and thus initiated ITS Consensus Building for Central Ohio. As ITS systems were beginning to be deployed around central Ohio, MORPC saw a growing need to provide a mechanism by which all transportation stakeholders could clearly understand what was being planned and examine how these systems could interact with each other. The Regional ITS Architecture followed as a natural evolution of this study. The Regional ITS Architecture would serve as the first step toward conformity with the National ITS Architecture being developed by FHWA and provide a resource by which implementing agencies could see how their systems could integrate with other ITS elements in central Ohio.

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  • Full conference proceedings available on CD-ROM.
• Corporate Authors:

  ITS America

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• Authors:
  • Lister, H
  • Witzke, E
• Conference:
  • 8th World Congress on Intelligent Transport Systems
  • Location: Sydney, Australia
  • Date: 2001-9-30 to 2001-10-4
• Publication Date: 2001

Language

• English

Media Info

• Pagination: 8p

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Consensus; Intelligent transportation systems; Interagency relations; Public private partnerships; Regional planning; Regional transportation; Stakeholders; System architecture
• Geographic Terms: Columbus (Ohio)
• Subject Areas: Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00972502
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS
• Created Date: Apr 20 2004 12:00AM