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As transportation engineers and practitioners continue advancing the scope and breadth of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) applications in the US, a primary concern regarding the tracking of both people and goods within the nation’s transportation grid is that of privacy. However, to date, only a scattering of ITS applications have been seriously examined for privacy issues. These include photo enforcement, electronic tolling, incident management, vehicle-mile taxing, weigh-in-motion, and vehicle-infrastructure integration systems or IntelliDrive. In a recent national survey to determine how state departments of transportation (DOTs) are meeting the privacy needs of the traveling public, it was determined that DOTs favor following available privacy legislation to ensure privacy. Unfortunately, there are no national standards for the privacy protection of travelers as most privacy information merely takes the form of poorly defined precepts. With the increasing use of ITS applications, which are becoming much more interwoven into the US transportation grid, there is a need to develop national standards to ensure the privacy protection of the traveling public. The authors recommend further study to determine the appropriate direction of any national legislation for protecting these traveler privacy rights.

01329018

11-1490

English

19p

2011

Transportation Research Board 90th Annual Meeting

DVD

Figures; Maps; References (42)

Detection and identification systems; Incident management; Intelligent transportation systems; Legal factors; Planning; Privacy; Standards; State departments of transportation; Tracking systems

Vehicle infrastructure integration

Highways; Planning and Forecasting; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning

Transportation Research Board Annual Meeting 2011 Paper #11-1490

TRIS, TRB

Feb 17 2011 5:49PM