00985985

Component

https://doi.org/10.3141/1886-03

http://scholar.google.com...sman&publication_year=2004

From September 1991 until June 1992, a core writing team worked on what was the first intelligent transportation systems (ITS) strategic plan in the United States. This plan was entitled "A Strategic Plan for IVHS [Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems] in the United States." It defined the ITS program at a national scale in a way that has been characterized as seminal. The plan, by most accounts, served as the blueprint for the early development of ITS in the United States and as the basis for subsequent plans produced by ITS America, the federal government, various states, and a number of private-sector organizations. Various aspects of ITS are explored retrospectively, contrasting views from 11 years ago, when the strategic plan was produced, with the current reality. Areas discussed include advanced traveler information systems, advanced transportation management systems, reliability, getting the ITS program off the ground in the early 1990s, strategic use of information, automated network management, electronic toll collection, congestion pricing, architecture, commercial vehicle operations, advanced public transportation systems, and regions. ITS is compared with the Interstate system, and a discussion covers both the upcoming reauthorization of the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century and the knowledge that has been gained through this retrospective about ITS-related issues on that reauthorization.

This paper appears in Transportation Research Record No. 1886, Intelligent Transportation Systems and Vehicle-Highway Automation 2004.

00985982

English

p. 18-23

2004

Transportation Research Record

030909481X

References (18)

Advanced public transportation systems; Advanced traffic management systems; Advanced traveler information systems; Automated toll collection; Commercial vehicle operations; Congestion pricing; Intelligent transportation systems; Regional planning; Reliability; Strategic planning; System architecture

Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century

Reauthorization

United States

Highways; Operations and Traffic Management; Planning and Forecasting; Public Transportation; I72: Traffic and Transport Planning; I73: Traffic Control

TRIS, TRB, ATRI

Feb 18 2005 12:00AM

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