USDOT releases new fact sheet on planning for the future of CVs and ITS
The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has developed a new fact sheet to encourage planning agencies to consider how their local transportation systems will function in a connected vehicle environment.
June 12, 2015
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The 324 US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has developed a new fact sheet to encourage planning agencies to consider how their local transportation systems will function in a connected vehicle environment.
The Planning for the Future of Transportation: Connected Vehicles and ITS fact sheet provides a quick overview of the ITS Joint Program Office's connected vehicle research activities and highlights key elements of performance-based planning and programming (PBPP) that present opportunities for addressing this connected vehicle environment.
These PBPP elements include: Strategic direction (Where do we want to go?); Planning analysis (How are we going to get there?); Programming (What will it take?); Implementation and Evaluation (How did we do?).
The fact sheet (link %$Linker: 2External<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-16"?><dictionary />000oLinkExternalhttp://www.its.dot.gov/factsheets/pdf/PlanningFutureTransportation_FactSheet.pdf)Visit the fact sheet for planning future transportationfalsehttp://http//www.its.dot.gov/factsheets/pdf/PlanningFutureTransportation_FactSheet.pdf)falsefalse%> also provides information on available planning tools and connected vehicle and ITS resources.
We wanted to know what mobility will look like for the next generation, so we asked those who would be shaping and using it – the next generation themselves. A group of students studying under Professor Dr Regine Gerike at Technical University Dresden gave us a wide range of stimulating responses. See our website for the full discussion:
In advance of the second Annual ITS & Smart Mobility Forum taking place from 21-22 March 2016 in Abu Dhabi, UAE, the organiser, International Quality and Productivity Centre (IQPC), has produced a complimentary e-book, Update on Smart Mobility Initiatives in the UAE.
The webinar on 6 February from 1400-1500 CET, From Advanced Active Safety Systems to Automated Systems: From interactIVe to AdaptIVe and beyond focuses on the evolution from driver assistance systems to automated driving. This is based mainly on two large scale EU integrated projects: interactIVe and AdaptIVe.
The webinar will discuss the interactIVe project, its objectives, main outcomes and lessons learned and provide an overview of the objectives and vision of automated driving functions that will be
Archives of sessions at the 2012 ITS America Annual Meeting and 2011 World Congress on-demand archives of sessions are now available. They offer many hours of recorded content for reference to sessions attended and those that you just didn’t get a chance to hear. Click on http://www.itsa.org/events/meeting-archives to view the full set of available recordings and instructions about how to download and purchase. Starting at the 2013 Annual Meeting in Nashville, ITS America will offer these audio synch-to-s