# Presentation: 866782

## Slide 1

## Paul Wormeli
Executive Director, IJIS Institute
June 9, 2005

- Executive Director, IJIS Institute
- June 9, 2005

**ITS/Public Safety Information Exchange Standards Project**

**Notes:**
The Integrated Justice Information Systems Institute was formed in early 2001 at the request of the Department of Justice.  Actually The IJIS Institute was grown from the Industry Working Group (which was created in 1999).  The IWG was an all-volunteer task force consisting of Justice Administration personnel and leaders from Industry.  Although it was at first challenging to pull these seemingly disparate parties together; DOJ was impressed by Private Industry’s ability to sit shoulder-to-shoulder (putting their differences aside) to provide effective and efficient technological solutions for the challenges our Justice communities were facing.  

The collaboration proved successful.  And it was this collaborative success that made DOJ spur creation of The IJIS Institute.

## IJIS Institute Mission

**IJIS Institute Mission**

- The mission of the IJIS Institute is to apply the expertise of industry to assist justice agencies in the innovative use of advanced technologies to better share information in a way that benefits industry, the public sector, and society as a whole.

**Notes:**
The Institute is a non-profit organization whose mission is to bring the technological expertise of industry together with the practical expertise of local, tribal, state, and national agencies to promote better information sharing.  To do so in a company and technology neutral way.

The key is continuing collaboration in a neutral way.

## Slide 4

**Notes:**
The IJIS Institute is comprised of more than 129 private companies with a vast array of expertise in various technologies and disciplines.  Hardware, software, information exchange, standards, program management, security, system architecture.  Our members range in size from $500k in annual revenues to multi-billion dollar companies.  

Our members are alike, however, in their passion for the power of information sharing and the smart and efficient use of technology.  This passion is proven by the extent of their volunteerism and success.

## IJIS Program Areas

 Technology Assistance
 Education and Training
 Research and Development
 Standards Implementation

**IJIS Program Areas**
-  Technology Assistance
-  Education and Training
-  Research and Development
-  Standards Implementation

## ITS/Public Safety Exchange

**Notes:**
The FHWA, JPO and BJA have partnered in sponsorship of the ITS/Public Safety Exchange Standards project and IJIS has been asked to manage that effort.

## Project Objectives

| # | Objective Title | Objective Description |
| --- | --- | --- |
| 1 | Define information sharing standards | Define information sharing standards that facilitate economic (standard, scalable, and reusable) data exchange between ITS and public safety systems.  Project is focused on ITS standards that utilize the IEEE 1512 family of standards and justice systems that utilize the GJXDM. |
| 2 | Create information exchange methods | Create and disseminate information exchange methods upon which industry and agencies in the transportation and public safety domains can base their implementation of information exchanges.  Such will minimally include creation of GJXDM Information Exchange Packages (IEP). |
| 3 | Validate information exchange methods | Validate the information exchange methods (end-to-end up to IEP and corresponding transportation package) through laboratory and field testing |
| 4 | Provide technical assistance | Provide specific technical assistance on-site to a minimum of five agencies engaged in adopting the model |
| 5 | Support knowledge management help desk | Support a knowledge management based help desk to answer questions related to implementation of the information exchange method, IEPs, and corresponding transportation package in specific jurisdictions |

**Notes:**
The project has five initial objectives.  Although these may be tweaked a bit once the project team is fully assembled, the initial objectives have us;

Defining a general information exchange architecture, methodology, and model.   
Creating IEPs
Validating those IEPs
Working with 5 agencies on implementation
And augmenting the help-desk and knowledge base to support this new work

## Exchanges

_**Exchanges**_

**Notes:**
I am sure all of you understand the inherent benefit derived from information shared between key ITS and Public Safety systems.   

ITS can glean immediate benefits by easily getting accident information, post-accident victim dispositions, special events, disaster updates, and real-time highway congestion information from Public Safety systems.

Public Safety can also gain some immediate benefits from getting hazmat, vehicle location, work zone details, and like ITS hosted data.

This is just the beginning.  Breaking down the system and political barriers between Public Safety and DOT systems and personnel will afford significant benefits to our citizens.  

## Aligns with FHWA Goals

- Minimize congestion/improving safety
- Implement effective transportation operations centers.
- Reduce delays/disruptions caused by incidents.
- Minimize adverse effects of work zones, including duration, congestion and safety.
- Provide effective transportation prior to, during and after emergencies and disasters.
- Minimize traffic tie-ups in conjunction with special events.
- Reduce congestion and delay by regular
-      re-timing of traffic signals.
- Provide timely and accurate information to travelers.

**Notes:**
This project and its related efforts align perfectly with the goals of the Federal Highway Administration and the charter of the ITS Joint Program Office.  

## Public Safety

Chris Traver (BJA)
Dustin Henson (CA)
Lt. Balles (WI)
Matthew Mallec (OH)
Mike Sadler (UT)
Robert Sedita (L.A.)

**ITS/Public Safety Exchange Steering Committee**

_**Public Safety**_
**Chris Traver (BJA)**
**Dustin Henson (CA)**
**Lt. Balles (WI)**
**Matthew Mallec (OH)**
**Mike Sadler (UT)**
**Robert Sedita (L.A.)**

_**Transportation**_
**National Policy**
**National ITS**
**State**
**State**
**Local/City**
**Local/City**

_**Industry**_
**Eric Roecks**
**Chandra Jonelagadda**
**Tim Wilson**
**Tom Dewey**

**Notes:**
We are currently in the process of selecting a Steering Committee for the project.   That Steering Committee will be comprised of a balanced representation across each domain.  We will have practitioners from the public safety/first responder domain; two from local jurisdictions, two from state jurisdictions, and one at the national level.  We will then balance those specialties with practitioners from transportation with two people who represent local transportation activities, two who represent state activities, and two who support the national level.  We will then compliment that practitioner expertise with four industry leaders with focused technical expertise.

This Steering Committee will act as an advisory board in defining specific priorities and activities.  The project is still clearly sponsored and performed in cooperation with the sponsoring team; ITS Joint Program Office under the direction of Vince Pearce with support from Tom Stout and Linda Dodge.

## Co-located w/ NCJA, 720 7th Street NWWashington, DC

- Co-located w/ NCJA, 720 7th Street NWWashington, DC

- Research & Technology Campus atGeorge Washington UniversityAshburn, VA

**IJIS Institute Facilities**

- _[http://www.ijis.org](http://www.ijis.org/)_
**Program Mgr: **_[suzette.mcleod@ijis.org](mailto:suzette.mcleod@ijis.org)_
**Exec Director****:****  **_**paul.wormeli@ijis.org**_

**Notes:**
So I ask each of you to feel free to contact me at the IJIS Institute.  I also recommend that any of your from private industry investigate our website and the benefits of becoming an IJIS member.  As we embark on this important DOT project we could use your expertise.

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