ITS-NY Announces 2012 Project of the Year Award Winners

The Intelligent Transportation Society of New York (ITS-NY) has announced the 2012 ITS-NY Project of the Year Winners at its Nineteenth Annual Meeting and Technology Exhibition in Saratoga Springs, NY. “These winning projects feature ITS and technologies at work in New York State to improve traveller mobility and safety, as well as the efficiency of New York State’s transportation system across all modes of travel,” said Dr Isaac Takyi, ITS-NY president. Winning Projects were announced in the following ITS
June 13, 2012 Read time: 3 mins
RSSThe 5911 Intelligent Transportation Society of New York (ITS-NY) has announced the 2012 ITS-NY Project of the Year Winners at its Nineteenth Annual Meeting and Technology Exhibition in Saratoga Springs, NY.

“These winning projects feature ITS and technologies at work in New York State to improve traveller mobility and safety, as well as the efficiency of New York State’s transportation system across all modes of travel,” said Dr Isaac Takyi, ITS-NY president. Winning Projects were announced in the following ITS award categories:

On The Go! Travel Station/Kiosk - Outstanding project of the year in advanced yraveller information systems

The 1267 Metropolitan Transportation Authority New York City Transit, Metro-North Railroad, Long Island Rail Road, 1028 Cisco Corporation, 5908 Comark, and Antenna Design piloted a ‘first in the world’ interactive, touch screen travel information kiosk that is ‘super user friendly’, has a modem, advanced design and an innovative concept of centrally feeding to it real-time information about transit services in New York City. The full rollout is being planned for 468 New York City subway stations.

Midtown In Motion – Outstanding project of the year in advanced traffic management systems

The 5590 New York City Department of Transportation, 1763 Econolite/CBH, the 831 Federal Highway Administration, KLD, Peek Traffic Corporation, and 139 Transcore implemented this cutting edge project to promote multimodal mobility in the Midtown Core of Manhattan. The application integrates various ITS technologies to improve travel and mobility in a challenging urban environment using active traffic management and the full capabilities of the NYCDOT ITS infrastructure - advanced solid-state traffic controllers, network of sensors (video, microwave, electronic toll collection readers), wireless communication system, and the New York city traffic control system.

NY5 Bus Rapid Transit - Outstanding project of the year in advanced public transport systems

The 5909 Capital District Transportation Authority, 5910 Creighton Manning Engineering, and 5897 IBI Group implemented this first upstate bus rapid transit project to provide faster, more reliable bus service along the 17-mile (27.35km) Route 5 corridor between downtown Schenectady and downtown Albany - a significant component of the Capital District’s transportation system carrying both the highest arterial traffic volumes and the greatest number of transit riders in the region. The project included cutting edge technology such as light rail transit signal indications, transit signal priority, real-time passenger information displays, GPS-based mobile data communication on the buses, CCTV monitoring, and a gateway to the existing fibre network. The corridor’s first exclusive bus queue jump lanes were also constructed.

ATM Ideas Upgrade - Outstanding ITS project of the year in cross-cutting ITS issues

Metropolitan Transportation Authority (MTA) Bridges & Tunnels and 5683 Transdyn, completed the ATM Ideas upgrade earlier this year, overhauling the entire advanced traffic management system used to manage traffic on all nine MTA Bridges and Tunnels’ facilities. The system allows each facility to operate independently while ensuring central control from the operations command and control centre, and provides a real time status of all facility traffic and incident related activities with full access to traffic cameras, VMS/VSLS, lane status, lane use signal control, and weather sensor data and alarms.

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