Skip to main content

Aecom and Iteris sign $13.2m Virginia agreement

Contract will see Iteris provide traffic services to Virginia Department of Transportation
By Adam Hill April 14, 2023 Read time: 1 min
Arlington, Virginia (© Jon Bilous | Dreamstime.com)

Iteris has signed a two-year, $13.2 million sub-contract agreement with Aecom for transport-related services across the US state of Virginia.

It will provide traffic and incident management support to Virginia Department of Transportation’s Traffic Operations Center (TOC) Services Program.

Covering all Virginia cities and counties, the work will include providing programme leadership, operations strategy, process and training development, and operations staffing - including regional operations management; TOC managers, supervisors, operators; district incident management coordinators; and freeway and signal engineers.

Virginia has five TOCs, monitoring road conditions, giving information to drivers, dispatching incident responders and coordinating traffic information and signals.

The deal is an extension to an existing five-year base contract, this deal demonstrates VDOT’s ongoing success with and continued trust in Iteris’ mobility consulting services offering.
 

For more information on companies in this article

Related Content

  • Nairobi looks to ITS to ease travel problems
    March 6, 2018
    Shem Oirere looks at plans to tackle chronic congestion in the Kenyan capital - where commuters can typically expect it to take up to two hours to complete a 15km journey. Traffic jams in the Kenyan capital, Nairobi, are estimated to cost the country $360 million a year in terms of lost man-hours, fuel and pollution. According to Wilfred Oginga, an engineer with the Kenya Urban Roads Authority (KURA), the congestion has been exacerbated by poor regulation and enforcement of traffic rules, absence of
  • Iteris awarded contract for support of national ITS and CV architectures
    September 2, 2015
    The US Department of Transportation (USDOT) has awarded Iteris a US$5.8 million task order for continued support and evolution of the national intelligent transportation system (ITS) architecture and the Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture (CVRIA) through 2018. This new task order continues the evolution of the national ITS architecture and supports its application at regional, state and local agency levels for planning and development of ITS projects. The work defined in the task or
  • Wireless technology aids city-wide traffic management
    October 10, 2012
    An extensive hybrid communications network in the County of Los Angeles is proving the capability and benefits of modern wireless technology for traffic management across wide areas. Wireless communications technology has found a welcoming test bed for use in traffic management systems, in the County of Los Angeles. The county has long running programmes synchronizing and monitoring traffic signals over large areas. In the process, combined with installation of advanced traffic management systems (ATMS), th
  • Real time active traffic management improves travel times
    July 17, 2012
    Traffic management centres (TMC) have traditionally served to provide surveillance and responses to traffic incidents and recurring and non-recurring changes in road networks. Typically, a TMC collected field data from the roadway and transit infrastructure and provided the integration necessary for operators to see what was happening and then coordinate a response. Standard operating procedures (SOPs) guided operators on how to respond to a given situation. It eventually became impractical for TMC operat