Developing a National Strategy for Intelligent Transportation Data

Ariel Gold, Program Manager ITS Joint Program Office, U.S. Department of Transportation

ITS Strategic Plan

http://its.dot.gov/strategicplan/index.html

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Connected Vehicles

How Connected Vehicles Work

1 A wireless device in a car sends basic safety messages 10 times per second

2 Other nearby cars and roadside equipment receive the messages

3 Drivers get a warning of a potential crash

Connected vehicles have the potential to reduce non-impaired crash scenarios by 80%*

*Source: NHTSA

Connected Vehicles What can they do?

• Save lives by significantly reducing traffic accidents

• Make travel easier, more efficient, and more enjoyable

• Help curb pollution

Smart Cities and Connected Vehicles

Smart Cities incorporate and expand connected transportation to ensure that connected transportation data, technologies and applications – as well as connected travelers – are fully integrated with other systems across a city, and fulfill their potential to improve safety, mobility and environmental outcomes in a complexly interdependent and multimodal world that supports a more sustainable relationship between transport and the city.

Example Deployment in a Smart City

Traffic signal support vehicle

automation applications

(Eco-Glide Path)

Transit vehicles leverage connected

vehicle technologies for transit signal priority

Data collected from connected vehicles

provide insights into the performance of the city

Handheld and infrastructure

devices support pedestrian safety

The Future of ITS Data

“With increased connectivity among vehicles, organizations, systems, and people, unprecedented amounts of data are being generated. New methods to collect, transmit/ transport, sort, store, share, aggregate, fuse, analyze, and apply these data will be needed for management and operations of transportation systems.” http://www.its.dot.gov/strategicplan/

What types and amounts of data will connected transportation technologies produce?

What new businesses, public services, and research could these data fuel?

What should the Federal role be in enabling nationwide access to the data while protecting the privacy of travelers?

Developing a National Strategy

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For More Information

Ariel GoldUSDOT / ITS JPOariel.gold@dot.gov

Website: http://www.its.dot.gov