# Presentation: 285234

## ITS Strategic Plan

- Shelley Row
- Director, ITS Joint Program Office
- Research and Innovative Technology Administration
- U.S. Department of Transportation

**Notes:**
Every session attendee should have a packet.  Packets contain:

A one-pager on each of the 9 ITS Initiatives

## ITS Strategic Planning Process

- Trends
- Interview ITS Advisory Committee members
- Interview USDOT modal staff
- JPO staff input
- End state visioning
- Opportunities
- Barriers
- Draft mission, goals and focus areas
- Gathering input

## Mission & Goal Areas

- JPO’s mission is to lead the creation & demonstration of intelligent technology solutions to achieve the safest & best performing surface transportation system in the world.
- Goal Areas
- Safety
- Mobility
- Environment
- 21st Century Institutions, Innovations, and Partnerships

## Observations of the ITS Within USDOT
Specific ITS applications are moving forward through leadership in the modal administrations (FHWA, FTA, FMCSA, NHTSA)
Signal systems
Freeway & traffic incident management
Transit management
CVISN
ITS program should focus on a few high-leverage issues 
Potential for significant pay off at a national scale
Issues that transcend a single mode

- Specific ITS applications are moving forward through leadership in the modal administrations (FHWA, FTA, FMCSA, NHTSA)
- Signal systems
- Freeway & traffic incident management
- Transit management
- CVISN
- ITS program should focus on a few high-leverage issues
- Potential for significant pay off at a national scale
- Issues that transcend a single mode

***ITS Strategic Plan***

## Goal: Safety

***Focus:***
**Intelligent Vehicle** – Create capability for all vehicles to have 360 degree awareness of hazards, and communicate appropriately with drivers to prevent crashes

***Achieve measurable reduction in crashes, injuries, fatalities, and the associated economic costs***
***Challenge: Reduce 90% of all crashes, injuries, and fatalities by 2029 ***

## Goal: Mobility

***Focus:***
**Realize complete transportation system visibility**
- Real time data on all roads, all modes, all the time
- To enable performance measurement across the transportation system
- To catalyze the development of applications to optimize network performance
- To enable delivery of end-to-end transportation information for trip planning (personal & business)

***Achieve measurable improvements in mobility, system performance, and economic productivity through research & demonstration of ITS technology***

## Goal: Mobility

***Focus:***
**Integrated electronic payment systems**
- Enable seamless payment processing
- Provide complete trip payment
- Integrate parking, transit, congestion pricing, tolling

***Achieve measurable improvements in mobility, system performance, and economic productivity through research & demonstration of ITS technology***

## Goal: Environment/Energy

***Focus:***
- Conduct research to understand relationship between technology-enabled congestion reduction & safety improvement with environmental impacts (carbon footprint & fuel efficiency)

***Achieve improvement in air quality and reductions in fuel consumption***
***Challenge:  Reduce fuel consumption and carbon emissions by 40% by 2029***

## Goal: 21st Century Institutions, Innovations, and Partnerships

***Focus:***
- Research **new public-private partnerships** to improve the deployment and use of ITS technologies in transportation
- Examine **innovative financing** models to foster use of ITS technologies in transportation
- Identify and research solutions to address **institutional barriers** in the use of ITS technologies in transportation

***Foster new institutional relationships to accelerate use of technologies in transportation***

## ITS Joint Program Office Roles

**Federal roles can range from**:
- Science
- Basic R&D
- Applied R&D
- Technology Transfer to commercialization
- Operational Demonstration
- Deployment
- Appropriate roles will vary based on focus area
- Roles are under discussion & development

## Other Activities:
Look to the next generation technology solutions
Leverage worldwide research
Support the basics
Architecture
Standards
Professional Capacity Building
Information Clearinghouse

- Look to the next generation technology solutions
- Leverage worldwide research
- Support the basics
- Architecture
- Standards
- Professional Capacity Building
- Information Clearinghouse

**ITS Strategic Plan**

## Next Steps
Comments on mission, goal and focus areas
Further Development 
Description of focus areas
Objectives for each focus area
Develop metrics for each objective 
Clarify Federal role
Develop an action plan
Gather input and refine
Publish the updated Program Plan
Update on current program status
New section on the Strategic Vision and Action Plan

- Comments on mission, goal and focus areas
- Further Development
- Description of focus areas
- Objectives for each focus area
- Develop metrics for each objective
- Clarify Federal role
- Develop an action plan
- Gather input and refine
- Publish the updated Program Plan
- Update on current program status
- New section on the Strategic Vision and Action Plan

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## ITS Strategic Plan	

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