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.
The call for speakers for the 2013 Polis Conference, to be held in Brussels on 4 and 5 December, covers a wide range of topics open under the core Polis themes of environment and health, traffic efficiency and mobility, road safety and the social and economic challenges. All abstracts should highlight the innovative dimension as well as the results achieved and lessons learned. Abstracts should be submitted online at www.polisnetwork.eu/2013conference by 7 June 2013. Authors will be notified in June of the
Registration is now open for ITS America, 12-15 June 12 2016 at the San Jose McEnery Convention Center.
It’s a new event with an exhibition, conferences, papers and demonstrations, where companies, public agencies, academics, engineers, researchers, regulators, lawmakers, app developers, infrastructure security agents, financiers and the media will meet to make new contacts, transfer knowledge and generate new ideas about what is next in a world where transportation is at the centre of the IOT.
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