# Presentation: 057627

## ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS)

*ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS)*

- Gene M. McHale
- Federal Highway Administration

## Outline - IDAS

- Uses and Capabilities
- How it Works
- Where to Get it
- Where to Get Support and Training
- Future Plans

## What Is IDAS?A Tool that:

- allows the estimation of transportation impacts resulting from ITS deployments
- is consistent with current planning analyses
- uses output from existing regional transportation travel demand models
- determines the transportation impacts of ITS
- deployment costs, travel time, safety, emissions, etc.
- monetary equivalents

## Who Is IDAS Designed For?

- Transportation planners
- ITS professionals
- Systems operators, Others

- Those who need to assess the costs and benefits of deploying ITS

## What Do I Need to Use IDAS?

- Knowledge of Travel Demand Forecasting
- Knowledge of ITS
- Travel demand model files
- Node coordinates, network links, matrix data (e.g., trip tables)
- Alternative ITS deployments for comparison

## Travel Demand ForecastingOverview – 4-Step Approach

- Trip Generation
- Trip Distribution
- Mode Choice
- Traffic Assignment

## How Does IDAS Work?Analytical Hierarchy

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*How Does IDAS Work?**Analytical Hierarchy*

**Travel Demand Model Output**

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## How Does IDAS Work?Software Perspective

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## How Does IDAS Work?Software Perspective

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## Where Do I Get IDAS?

- Available mid-May 2000
- McTrans Software Center
- (352) 392-0378 (ph)
- (352) 393-3224 (fax)
- _[Mctrans@ce.ufl.edu](mailto:Mctrans@ce.ufl.edu)_
- $795 per copy

## Where Do I Get Technical Support?

- Technical support offered through McTrans as part of purchase price
- Additional support as part of software maintenance contract
- Web site under construction to provide:
- User discussion forum
- Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ’s)
- Technical reports, articles, related links

## Where Do I Get Training?

- Development of a two-day hands-on training course has just begun
- First 24 courses offered free from NHI, beginning December 2000
- Following first 24 courses, regular NHI course

## What’s Planned for the Future?

- Short Term
- Bug fixes
- Cost and benefit value updates
- Longer Term (Possibilities)
- Ability to directly model traditional transportation improvements
- Addition of new ITS components

## Need More Information?

- Please visit the IDAS booth in US DOT portion of exhibit hall
- Software demonstrations
- Talk to the IDAS developers
- Flyers & other information

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