|
|
|
Title: Information Technology as a Critical Element of the Transportation Infrastructure: Critical Analysis in Modern Transportation Agencies
Accession Number: 01095752
Record Type: Component
Record URL: Availability: Transportation Research Board Business Office 500 Fifth Street, NW Find a library where document is available Abstract: Advanced infrastructure systems (AISs) are sensor data–driven control and management systems, which have been developed to improve the performance of society’s infrastructure systems. AISs are becoming commonplace in the transportation infrastructure, for example, in traffic operations, structural monitoring, environmental modeling, and especially in the emerging initiative known as vehicle infrastructure integration. Thus, information technology (IT) is fundamentally changing the composition of what is referred to as the transportation infrastructure. Finding sophisticated IT systems serving critical control and management functions in the infrastructure itself also is becoming commonplace. However, in general, the organizational structures of transportation agencies have been established to support IT as a tool to provide administrative and analytic support. To move forward and allow departments of transportation to take full advantage of AISs, it is recommended that agencies establish agencywide groups on IT in infrastructure, create interoperability standards, and better prepare transportation engineers to apply IT.
Monograph Accession #: 01114862
Language: English
Authors: Smith, Brian LeePagination: pp 19-23
Publication Date: 2008
ISBN: 9780309113366
Media Type: Print
Features: Figures
(3)
; References
(12)
TRT Terms: Candidate Terms: Uncontrolled Terms: Subject Areas: Data and Information Technology; Highways; I10: Economics and Administration
Files: TRIS, TRB, ATRI
Created Date: Jan 29 2008 4:26PM
More Articles from this Serial Issue:
|
