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A three-day workshop, attended by more than 80 professionals from government, industry, and academia, was held to develop a shared understanding of the purpose of the Roadway INFOstructure, the road and highway component of the Integrated Network of Transportation Information (INTI), and to explore critical issues. The workshop consisted of invited presentations from industry experts and a structured series of breakout group sessions focusing respectively on: Why: What is the purpose of a Roadway INFOstructure?; What: What does it need to include?; and How: Planning to realize the Roadway INFOstructure. Breakout group discussions were shared and reviewed among all workshop participants during plenary sessions following each breakout session. A final plenary session summarized workshop discussions and outlined directions for the future. Workshop discussions made it clear that there were many, not always compatible, visions for the Roadway INFOstructure and that a primary near-term objective is to pin down its scope and meaning. At the end of the workshop, the following definition for the Roadway INFOstructure was presented: "A coordinated collection of systems on a national scale that consistently collects, integrates, and stores real-time and historical information about the structure, state, usage, and performance of the roadway system and its related facilities and that enables making this information readily available to applications that serve managers and users of the roadway system." This circular contains summaries of the three breakout sessions, a brief summary of a workshop dinner address by Michael Noblett, and a summary of the closing plenary session.

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E-C057

English

36 p.

2003-11

Transportation Research Circular

The Roadway INFOstructure: Why? What? How?

Appendices (3)

Data collection; Data storage; Highway facilities; Highways; History; Information management; Real time information; Workshops

Data and Information Technology; Highways; History; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

TRIS, TRB

Nov 14 2003 12:00AM