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ITS Update



Week of August 18, 1997



WEEK AHEAD (Week of August 25, 1997)

- On August 25, the Advanced Public Transportation Systems Quarterly
Review will be held in the Nassif Building. This quarterly meeting is an
opportunity for internal stakeholders to monitor their progress on the
development of ITS in this arena. Mac Lister of the JPO is coordinating
these efforts.

- From August 25-27, the Rural Advanced Technology and Transportation
Systems 1997 International Conference will be held in Big Sky, Montana.
This event is sponsored by the Western Transportation Institute of Montana
State University-Bozeman. The theme of the conference is Rural ITS:
Making It A Reality Around the World. Sponsors include: ITS America,
the Western Transportation Institute, Montana DOT, FHWA, Castle Rock Consultants,
and Surface Systems, Inc. The theme was chosen to highlight the important
role that transportation and advanced technologies can play in making rural
travel safe and efficient throughout the world. National and international
leaders in business, government, and academia will be on hand to exchange
information on the planning, development, and implementation of Advanced
Technology and Transportation Systems (ITS) in the rural environment. Christine
Johnson and Ray Resendes of the JPO will be attending.

- From August 26-27, the ASTM Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC)
Writing Group will meet in Laurel, Maryland, to address the communications
protocol. This is the Aphone
connection@ aspect of DSRC development.
On August 28, the IEEE DSRC Message Set Group, which deals with the data
or content traveling over the Aphone
lines,@ will meet in the same
place. Both of these meetings are being hosted by the Johns Hopkins University
Applied Physics Laboratory. Mike Schagrin and Mike Onder of the JPO will
be attending.

- This week the final ITS Rural Strategic Plan and the Rural Program
Plan will be published and made available on the ITS Home Page on the World
Wide Web.

WEEK IN REVIEW (Week of August 18, 1997)

- On August 18, the Interoperability Subcommittee of the ITS America
Architecture Committee met in Washington, D.C. to address the interoperability
needs of the community and to ensure that critical items are being addressed.

- On August 19-20, the National Transportation Communication for ITS
Protocol (NTCIP) Steering Committee met in Seattle, Washington to address
various efforts underway and to monitor progress. AASHTO, ITE and NEMA
representatives make up the Steering Committee. In the long-term, this
effort will result in 15 different standards. Mike Schagrin of the JPO
coordinated.

- From August 21-22, the IEEE Data Dictionary meeting was held in Washington,
D.C. at ITS America. This effort defines the basic information elements
that will be exchanged by the various ITS centers (traffic operations centers,
etc.). Mike Schagrin of the JPO attended.

- This week draft deployment guidance documents for traveler information
and emergency and incident management respectively went out to a public-private
sector peer group for review. The turn-around for the review is the first
week in September. The goal to finalize them is the end of September. Lee
Simmons is coordinating this effort.