# Presentation: 425273

## Guidance and Support of ITS Programs

*Michael Freitas*
- May 2000

- US Department
- of Transportation
**Federal Highway **
**Administration**

## Overview

- Introduction
- Technical Assistance
- Types of Assistance
- Future Technical Assistance
- ITS Web Resources

## Introduction

- Focus of Current ITS Program is on Deployment
- Fundamental Premise of ITS Deployment Process
- There Are Basic Types of Knowledge and Skills Required at Every Stage of Deployment in Order for a Project to Make It Through the Entire Process Successfully
- Technical Assistance Program is Based on That Premise

## Deployment Stages/ Required Knowledge Areas

*Deployment Stages/ Required Knowledge Areas*

## Level of ITS Deployment

*Level of ITS Deployment*

## ITS Deployment Process/Technical Assistance Options

**ITS Deployment **
**Process**

**Peer-to-Peer**

**PCB **
**Program**

**Service Plans**

*ITS Deployment Process/Technical Assistance Options*

**Guidance**
**Material**

**Planning/**
**Analysis**
**Tools**

## Technical Assistance

- Service Plans
- Peer to Peer Program
- Professional Capacity Building Program
- Guidance Material
- Planning/Analysis Tools

## Service Plans

- Service Plans Define How FHWA and FTA Will Provide Technical Support in an Area (Metropolitan or Rural) Deploying and Integrating of ITS Technologies and Procedures.
- Service Plans Replaced Informal Ad Hoc Responses to Technical Assistance Requests

## Service Plans

- Strategic Technical Assistance Plans
- Field-Based
- Outcome Oriented
- Facilitate Integrated Deployment
- Funded at Over $1.0M/Year (Up to $1.5M in FY 01)

## Service Plan Activities

- Service Plan Activities Include
- Scanning Reviews
- Training
- Architecture Development
- Tier I /II Workshops

## Tier I /II Workshops

- Objective - Assist MPOs in Developing Their Regional Architectures
- _Tier I Workshop_ (1 Day) - Focused on Organizing the Architecture Development Process
- _Tier II Workshop_ (2 1/2 days) - Focused on Laying Out an Initial Regional Architecture and Pointed at Steps to Complete the Process

## ITS Peer-to-Peer Program

- Program Established to Provide ITS Peer Support
- Over 120 Peers, Primarily Public Sector
- Program Matches Peer With Request
- Program Pays Peer Expenses

## ITS Peer-to-Peer Program

- Over 370 Requests Received and Processed
- 66% Response Completion Within 1 Month
- Customer Service Portal
- One number access: 1-888-700-PEER
- www.its.dot.gov/peer/peer.htm

## Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program

- The ITS PCB Program Was Formed to Assist Transportation Professionals in Developing the Knowledge, Skills, and Abilities Required to Deploy, Operate and Manage ITS Projects.
- All Levels of Government
- Academia, and Professional Associations
- Public and Private Sector

## Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program

- The Program Is Comprehensive and Multi-modal in Nature (24 Courses Offered)
- The Web Site Provides a Comprehensive List of ITS PCB Program Offerings
- http://pcb.volpe.dot.gov
- It Also Includes Links to Other Relevant Web Sites

## PCB Program - Course Topics

- Awareness
- Architecture
- Architecture & Standards Conformity
- Commercial Vehicle Operations
- Freeway Management
- Incident Management
- ITS Procurement and Acquisition

- ITS Standards
- Regional Multimodal Traveler Information (ATIS)
- Rural
- Telecommunications
- Traffic Signal Control
- Transit Management

## Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program

- PCB Training
- 9,000 People in Travel Management Related Topics
- 3,000 People in Commercial Vehicle Operations
- Currently Piloting 3 Web-based Training Courses

## Guidance Material

- Guidance Documents Are Intended to Aid Transportation Practitioners in:
- Planning and Deploying ITS Systems
- The Use of the National ITS Architecture
- To Foster the Integration of Transportation Systems Within a Region.

## Guidance Material 

- Typical Guidance Documents Include:
- Developing ITS Using the National ITS Architecture
- ITS Deployment of Transit Systems
- Developing Traffic Signal Control Systems
- Developing Traveler Information Systems
- All Documents Are Available Electronically on the ITS Web-site (EDL)

## Guidance Material

- ITS Benefits Special Studies Initiative
- Benefit Brochures
- Cross Cutting Studies
- Case Studies
- Implementation Guides
- Technical Reports
- Topic Areas - CVO, Emergency Services, Freeway and Arterial Management, Planning and Integration, Weather Information for Traveler & Maintenance Etc.

## Guidance Material

- Examples of ITS Benefit Studies - Reports/Brochures
- Transportation Management Center Concepts of Operations: Implementation Guide
- Transportation Management Center concept of Operation: A Cross-Cutting Study
- To Order ITS Benefit Special Studies - Go to the Following Web-site and Click on Order Form
- http://www.its.dot.gov/eval/Metro/
-    Metro_BenefitsSpecial_EDLDocs.htm

## New ITS Planning/Analysis Tools

- ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS)  and Turbo Architecture Software
- Available Through McTrans, May 2000
- User Manual Included w/ Software
- Free Technical Support Is Available
- Turbo; 1 Day Training Course for Headquarters and Field Staff - Available  in July 2000
- IDAS; 2 Day Training Course is Under Development - Available October 2000 at Resource Centers

## ITS Deployment Analysis System (IDAS) Software

- Tool Used to Enhance the Planning of Proposed ITS Improvements
- Complements the Traditional Travel Demand Forecasting Process
- Benefits of ITS Improvements Are Calculated and Compared With the Deployment Costs
- Provides a Direct Way to Compare a Number of Alternative ITS Deployments

## Turbo Architecture Software

- Interactive Software Program to Assist Transportation Planners and System Integrators, in the Development of Regional and Project Architectures
- Uses the National ITS Architecture As Starting Point

## Technical Assistance - Commercial Vehicle Operations

- CVISN Operational and Architectural Compatibility Handbook (COACH)
- Comprehensive Checklist of What Is Required to Conform W/ Commercial Vehicle Information Systems and Networks (CVISN), Operational Concepts and Architecture.
- CVISN Workshops
- Scope Workshop
- Planning Workshop
- Design Workshop
- For More Information: http://www.jhuapl.edu/cvisn/

## Future Technical Assistance

- Expectation That Significant Technical Assistance Will Be Needed When the Architecture Consistency Policy Becomes Final
- Planning Process Has Begun to Determine What Kinds of Technical Assistance Will Be Needed

## Additional ITS Web Resources

- ITS Joint Program Office:
- http//:www.its.dot.gov
- ITS Electronic Document Library (EDL):
- http//:its.fhwa.dot.gov/cyberdocs/welcome.htm
- ITS Cooperative Deployment Network (ICDN):
- http//:www.nawgits.com/jpo/
- ITS America
- http://www.itsa.org/