China Highway & Transportation Society is hosting a series of Climate Change Challenges International Transportation Webinars . TRB is pleased to cosponsor these events. Register for Webinar 2: Resilience of Urban Transportation Systems – Strength in Diversification. The urban transportation network is an integrated network in which multiple transportation modes are intertwined. Presenters ...

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Hosted by Argonne National Laboratory, the 2022 Maritime Risk Symposium will be held November 15-17,2022 in Lemont, IL. TRB is pleased to cosponsor this event. The Symposium brings together government, industry, and academic leaders to explore current and future risks associated with the maritime transportation system related to infrastructure, human factors, cyber vulnerabilities, and innovati...

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Jane Lappin, chair of TRB’s Vehicle-Highway Automation Standing Committee, discusses advances in autonomous vehicles. Listen to the podcast here and subscribe wherever you get your podcasts.

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The National Academies-TRB Forum on Preparing for Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility has developed a set of research needs statements on Automated Vehicles, Shared Mobility, Pandemics, and Equity. Transportation research organizations may use the research needs statements for their consideration in identifying, prioritizing, and funding research needed to address these critical issues. Thes...

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Unmanned aircraft systems (UASs), or drones, have broad applications. TRB hosted a webinar on Tuesday, February 25, 2020 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM Eastern that explored UAS applications for surface transportation agencies. The webinar addressed how UASs can be implemented within state departments of transportation and what their applications are. Presenters discussed challenges and opportunities reg...

A ramp merging system for connected and automated vehicles (CAVs) is discussed in Development of Eco-Friendly Ramp Control for Connected and Automated Vehicles , a report from the National Center for Sustainable Transportation at the University of California at Davis. Sometimes ramp controls for CAVs may result in speed fluctuations, potentially increasing the traffic delays and excessive energ...

Various U.S. transit industry uses of automation technologies are identified in Transit Automation Technologies: A Review of Transit Agency Perspective , a report from the Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University. Examples of these technologies include lane-keep assist systems, collision avoidance systems, guidance systems for precise docking in Bus Rapid Tra...

Automated vehicle (AV) lateral wandering patterns are measured in Optimizing the Lateral Wandering of Automated Vehicles to Improve Roadway Safety and Pavement Life , a report from the Virginia Tech Transportation Institute. Most AVs are programmed to follow a set path and maintain a lateral position in the center of the lane, which will cause significant pavement rutting over time.

The National Academies/TRB Forum on Preparing for Automated Vehicles and Shared Mobility will focus its 2020 efforts on identifying and preparing for future scenarios. These efforts are expected to include the following: Preparing summaries of top ten issues of concern to forum participants Identifying sample scenario(s) and their implications Developing visions and strategies Preparing impleme...

A trial of an automated vehicle is explored in Smart Mobility Living Lab Shared Research Programme - Abridged Safety Case for Public Road Trials in London , a report from TRL. This report focuses on how the vehicle is being deployed safety, and collects research data about said vehicle.

Collision threats in work zones are predicted in Design and Evaluation of a Connected Work Zone Hazard Detection and Communication System for Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAVs) , a report from the Virginia Transportation Institute at Virginia Tech. The advent of connected and automated vehicles is driving work zone safety practitioners and vehicle designers towards implementing solutions t...

A pilot program is analyzed in Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program Independent Evaluation: Program Evaluation Plan , a report from the U.S. Federal Highway Administration. This report describes a pilot program for deploying connected vehicles (CV) through the Texas A&M Transportation Institute. It determines whether the CV pilot program achieved its goals and estimates the program’s ...

The complexities of connected vehicles are addressed in How Locals Need to Prepare for the Future of V2V/V2I Connected Vehicles , a report from the Minnesota Department of Transportation. This report discusses the connected/automated vehicle (CAV) ecosystem and its background, potential CAV applications, and types of communication and hardware required for CAV systems.

Vehicle connectivity is analyzed in Non-Linear Spacing Policy and Network Analysis for Shared-Road Platooning , a report from the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota. This report identifies problems in traffic flows, determines cyber-attack vulnerabilities, and discusses spacing policies for cooperative adaptive cruise control.

TRB's National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) has announced new tasks that focus on connected and automated vehicles (AV/CV). The objectives of these tasks, Project 20-102 , are to identify critical issues associated with CV/AVs that transportation agencies may face and conduct research to address those issues. This project also seeks to employ related technology transfer and info...

App-based mobility services are discussed in Regulating App-Based Mobility Services: Summary and Conclusions , a report from the International Transport Forum. This report is based on a roundtable discussion that focused primarily on bikesharing and ridesourcing apps. This report identifies potential regulatory principles to optimize consumer benefits of app-based mobility and ensure that these...

The Virginia Department of Transportation has released a report that investigates the development of a digital traffic control device (TCD) data service that focuses on signs and pavement markings. As connected vehicles develop and vehicle automation becomes a reality, the potential exists to replace or augment TCDs with a digital connection.

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, May 22, 2019, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) Research Report 191 : A Primer to Prepare for the Connected Airport and the Internet of Things. The Internet of Things (IoT), as defined by the International Telecommunications Union, is “a global infrastructure for the information society, e...

The Centre for Connected and Automated Vehicles in the United Kingdom (UK) has released a report that outlines the laws for organizations that test automated vehicles within the UK. The code of practice that is outlined serves to facilitate the safe development and introduction of these technologies to the UK’s roads. Testing any level of automated vehicle technology is possible on any UK road ...

TRB released a series of recordings in February 2019 that analyzes the current digital project delivery methods with the intention of identifying unresolved challenges. The presenters discuss the opportunities that arise from the challenges in using big data analytics for improved project delivery (i.e., design, construction, operation, and maintenance), as well as for developing intellige...

The American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) has released a video that summarizes information from twelve state DOT executives who shared their expertise at the TRB 2019 Annual Meeting. These experts spoke about a wide range of pressing issues including workforce development; connected and autonomous vehicles; and the need for sustainable federal funding to bu...

The Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University has released a report that identifies the extent of threats on the information technology infrastructures of surface transportation (ST), both fixed and route-based. ST seeks to optimize the movement of people and goods, while ensuring safety and resiliency and minimizing environmental impact. The goal of this report is to define,...

The National Center for Sustainable Transportation at the University of California at Davis has released a report that determines how legislative mandates have impacted metropolitan planning agencies from a workforce standpoint. This report identifies several factors on workforce capacity that may have been affected by these mandates, particularly in the fields of engineering, construction mana...

The National Transport Commission in Australia has released a report that evaluates options for the safety assurance of automated driving systems (ADSs). This report outlines four potential options, all of which have different levels of government oversight. The goal of this report is to develop a flexible and responsive regulatory environment for the commercial deployment of automated vehicles...

Jonathan Rubin, Director of the Margaret Chase Smith Policy Center at the University of Maine, is a featured volunteer in the TR News . His research specialties include economics of transportation energy, climate change, and alternative fuels. Dr. Rubin’s research focuses on the economics of cellulosic biofuels and the environmental impact of autonomous vehicles. His work has been supported by ...

The Iowa Department of Transportation has released a report that explores potential applications of expanded maintenance data and traffic data. This report focuses on using automated vehicle location and snowplow image capture technologies to examine winter weather events and their effects on crashes. These data resources have the potential to supplement existing efforts to monitor traffic, wea...

TRB conducted a webinar on Monday, November 5, 2018, from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that features research from the Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP)’s Legal Research Digest 32 : Evolving Law on Airport Implications by Unmanned Aerial Systems and ACRP Project 03-42 Topic A : Managing Unmanned Aircraft Systems in the Vicinity of Airports. Airports are using unmanned aerial systems (UAS), a...

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) has released a report that outlines the federal policy for automated vehicles. This report identifies six principles that guide DOT programs and policies on automation. It also determines strategies for how the DOT can translate these principles into actions. The document considers automation broadly, addressing all levels of automation (defined by th...

The Institute of Transportation Studies at the University of California at Davis has released a report that explores the effects of automated vehicles (AVs) in the San Francisco Bay Area. This report seeks to identify appropriate methods to help the public and private sectors understand AV technologies and their system-level effects.

The National Transport Commission in Australia has released a report that discusses privacy challenges associated with government collection and use of information generated by cooperative intelligent transport systems (C-ITS) and automated technology. Specifically, this report addresses whether Australia’s information access framework is sufficient to address these challenges and proposes solu...

The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that evaluates sensor-driven messages with measurements of speed data under various winter weather conditions. This report is a continuation of Evaluation of Dynamic Advisory Messaging – Phase I, which explores how a dynamic advisory system might work within the Iowa Intelligent Transportation Systems platform.

The National Academies/TRB Forum on Preparing for Automated Vehicles & Shared Mobility has released a presentation summarizing the top ten research needs for automated vehicles and shared mobility. These research needs are ranked  in order of most concern to the Forum's participants. The Forum will explore these topics by collecting and sharing information that is already available, an...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that explores using drones (UAS) as a tool for improving the quality of bridge inspections. This report represents the third phase of the research, and identifies new drone technology and methods to address limitations identified in Phase II of the project.

TRB conducted a webinar on Thursday, September 6, 2018 from 1:00 PM to 2:30 PM ET that examined the impacts of technologies such as connected/autonomous vehicles and ridesharing services on transportation revenues. As these technologies change the way people travel, they are displacing traditional revenue streams for transportation programs. This webinar addressed the current and anticipated im...

TRB conducted a webinar on Thursday, August 30, 2018 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that identifies recent attacks on transportation systems and describe practices that may avoid network breaches. As critical transportation infrastructure comes to rely on greater amounts of data, cyberattacks are an eminent threat. This webinar explored systems that are resilient to attacks and will offer ways to c...

TRB has released a new video highlighting the 2018 Automated Vehicles Symposium, held in San Francisco California July 9-12, 2018. Plan to attend the 2019 symposium, scheduled for July 15-18, 2019, in Orlando, Florida.

The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that develops and demonstrates a small unmanned aerial vehicle system (sUAV) that may be used to perform structural inspections currently requiring under-bridge inspection vehicles. The goal of this project was to create an sUAV with the ability to provide data and deficiency identification with the same or better accuracy than that...

The Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University has released a report that investigates driver compliance rates with stop signs at all-way stop controls (AWSC) that are in close proximity to signalized intersections. Several strategies have been developed to alleviate the congestion and throughput problem experienced at AWSC in urban areas, including Intelligent Transportation ...

The National Transport Commission in Australia has released a report that identifies the responsible parties in situations when an automated driving system may drive a vehicle and establishes legal obligations that may be required for users of automated vehicles. This report also outlines any further work that needs to be done in order for legislative reform concerning automated vehicles to occur.

The Institute for Transportation at Iowa State University has released a report that develops and validates several computational tools for bridge management. This report provides a framework for practitioners to predict various information regarding long-term bridge performance, associated environments, and traffic flows.

Jim Kruse, director of the Center for Ports and Waterways at the Texas A&M Transportation Institute, is a featured volunteer in the TR News . Mr. Kruse administers research involving waterborne freight transportation and its multimodal connections—work that covers a range of ever-changing topics, from economic analyses of ports and waterways to statistical evaluations of vessel traffic...

The Louisiana Department of Transportation and Development has released a report that discusses the development of a driving simulator test bed to investigate the impact of three connected vehicle safety applications on driving behavior. This report focuses on blind spot warning, forward collision warning, and do-not-pass warning applications on human subjects in the Louisiana State University ...

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, April 25, 2018 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that highlighted emerging technologies and programs that are designed to mitigate emissions from vehicles. Presenters discussed hybrid-electric and fully electric vehicles, connected and autonomous vehicles, and the U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s Alternative Fuels Corridor Program. The goal of each of these e...

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that summarizes research about oversize and overweight permitting practices, including automated vehicle routing and escort driver certification. This report is intended to fulfill a recommendation by the U.S. Government Accountability Office.

The Transportation Research Thesaurus (TRT) is a tool to improve the indexing and retrieval of transportation information. New terms are added to the TRT quarterly to reflect current and common transportation-related concepts. Terms added this quarter include: conceptual models; drones; knowledge management; and unmanned aircraft systems. These terms are highlighted in the "Newest Terms" box on...

The New Zealand Transport Agency has released a report that identifies intelligent transportation system (ITS) technologies likely to be desired in 2035. This report also identifies the associated industries, skills, and occupations in which ITS may be deployed, and assesses the role of training establishments needed to adapt to the migration of the related workforce.

The Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Texas at Austin has released a report that investigates the quality and security of information flow in the connected vehicle (CV) environment. This report focuses on the CV technologies of vehicle-to-vehicle and vehicle-to-infrastructure communication.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General has released a report that evaluates the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)’s procedures for selecting and justifying projects that receive NextGen funding. NextGen – Next Generation Air Transportation System – is an FAA initiative to modernize the national airspace system.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) has released a report that summarizes the Roundtable on Data for Automated Vehicle Safety the USDOT hosted on December 7, 2017. The roundtable brought together experts from various fields and organizations to gather feedback on the USDOT’s draft Guiding Principles on Voluntary Data Exchanges to Accelerate Safe Deployment of Automated Vehicles and dr...

TRB's Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) has released a draft document titled, " Managing Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) in the Vicinity of Airports " that provides guidance for airport operators and managers to manage UAS operations and related activities in and around airports. UAS operations that occur near airports may impact current and future airport operations as well as entities...

The Australian Department of the Environment and Energy has released a report that summarizes climate change policies in Australia, including policies that affect transportation. This report highlights how the Australian government is transitioning to a low-carbon transportation sector through policies that encourage connected vehicles, remove commercial barriers, and accelerate the production ...

The National Transport Commission in Australia has released a report that outlines a high-level design for a safety assurance system for automated vehicles in Australia. This report identifies key steps to implement the safety assurance system by 2020, including legislative and registration changes.

NCHRP has partnered with the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) to develop a Transportation TV Special Report video on Automated Vehicles in America, featuring the results of Strategies to Advance Automated and Connected Vehicles: Briefing Document . It provides 18 policy and planning options for government decision makers that could influence the privat...

TRB conducted a webinar on Thursday, November 16, 2017, from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that featured research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s  Web-Only Document 239 : Impacts of Laws and Regulations on CV and AV Technology Introduction in Transit Operations. This webinar discussed the changes in the way public transit agencies will approach operating policy with ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation Office of the Inspector General has released a report that identifies the steps the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration took to address the NextGen Advisory Committee’s (NAC) priorities. NAC oversees the NextGen program, which aims to modernize the Nation’s air traffic system and provide safer and more efficient air traffic management by 2025.

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, November 8, 2017, from 1:00 PM to 3:00 PM ET that features research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Research Report 845 : Advancing Automated and Connected Vehicles: Policy and Planning Strategies for State and Local Transportation Agencies, which is accompanied by Strategies to Advance Automated and Connected Vehicles: Brie...

The National Transport Commission in Australia has released a report that outlines legislative reform options to clarify how current driving laws may be applied to automated vehicles to establish legal obligations for automated driving system entities. The researchers are seeking feedback on whether current laws should be amended in order to develop recommendations for transportation ministers.

The National Center for Sustainable Transportation at the University of California at Davis has released a report that describes a broad classification of Connected and Automated Vehicles (CAV) to include vehicle-centric, infrastructure-centric, and traveler-centric modes. This report also examines CAV applications and suggests approaches for enhancing their measures of effectiveness.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) Office of the Inspector General has released an audit report that determines whether the DOT’s Office of the Chief Information Officer expended appropriate funds to support cybersecurity initiatives and adequately planned for its cybersecurity funding needs. Between fiscal years 2012-2015, Congress appropriated more than $25 million to address cyberse...

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that identifies potential applications of Unmanned Aircraft Systems (UAS) as a tool in bridge inspections. This research examines the imaging technology in UASs, including photographs, videos, and infrared sensors.

The University of Michigan has released a report that examines specific human factors issues associated with transfer of control between automated and manual driving. The goal of this project was to quantify the social and behavioral aspects of drivers who transfer control between automated and manual vehicles.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has released a report that examines the opportunities to improve St. Lawrence Seaway operations through the application of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technology. The report summarized current conditions, documents operational challenges, and identifies preliminary opportunities to apply ITS concepts or technology to improve efficiency on the S...

The International Transport Forum has released a report that explores how a transition to driverless trucks could happen, the possible benefits to moving freight, and possible impacts to careers of those in the trucking industry.

Australia’s National Transport Council has released a report that outlines the recommendations for national guidelines for automated vehicle trials in Australia. The report provides a flexible mechanism that may encourage innovation and help ensure that organizations supporting trials provide similar trial conditions across Australia.

The Minnesota Department of Transportation has released a report that investigates the use of Automated Vehicle Location (AVL) to enhance mowing operations. AVL provides a means for determining and transmitting the geographic location of a vehicle, and when combined with vehicle sensors and operator input, may generate efficiencies, improve safety, and potentially save money.

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, May 24, 2017, from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that features research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). NextGen refers to federal programs that are designed to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS). ACRP’s NextGen initiative aims to inform airport operators about some of...

TRB conducted a webinar on Monday, May 22, 2017, from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that features research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). NextGen refers to federal programs that are designed to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS). ACRP’s NextGen initiative aims to inform airport operators about some of th...

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, May 3, 2017 from 2:00PM to 3:30PM ET that featured research from the National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Legal Research Digest 69 : A Look at the Legal Environment for Driverless Vehicles. This webinar explored legal policy issues that may be associated with driverless vehicles. Presenters provided an introduction to the legal qualificat...

The Iowa Department of Transportation has released a report that details the department’s vision for its role in the future transportation environment, including the creation of an environment where automated driving and advanced transportation technologies can thrive in Iowa. The report provides near and long-term goals, a deployment roadmap for automated vehicles and advanced transportation t...

The National Transport Commission in Australia has released a report that outlines the rationale for national enforcement guidelines of automated vehicles. The objective of the research is to clarify how regulatory concepts of control in the Australian Road Rules should apply to automated vehicles, which this report identifies as any vehicle operating with partial, conditional, high, or full au...

The New York State Energy Research and Development Authority has released a report that examines the extent to which the SmartTrips model encourages residents of Ithaca, New York, to use transportation modes such as walking, biking, transit, and carsharing. The SmartTrips Ithaca project includes personal guidance for residents when trying new transportation options.

The Texas A&M University Transportation Institute has released a report that summarizes the development of a concept of operations with a focus on using unmanned aircraft systems as tool to enhance traffic incident management. The goal of the project is to provide quick and accurate information from the scene of a traffic accident in order to decrease traffic congestion.

Visit the  transformational technologies webpage to view TRB's latest research results, ongoing research, publications, news, and events in the area of transformational technologies. Key technologies include connected and automated vehicles, shared use services; unmanned aerial systems (drones); NextGen, Internet-of-Things, smart cities; big data; and cybersecurity.

TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, February 21, 2017 from 2:00 to 3:30 PM ET that featured research from National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP)’s Web-Only Document 221 : Protection of Transportation Infrastructure from Cyber Attacks: A Primer. This webinar focused on fundamental strategic, management, and planning activities associated with highway transportation control systems...

TRB conducted a webinar on Monday, February 13, 2017 from 1:00 to 2:30 PM ET that featured highlights from the 2016 U.S. DOT's Smart City Challenge and The U.S. Federal Transit Administration's (FTA) "Mobility on Demand" (MOD) Sandbox workshop. This webinar emphasized the role of public transit, shared mobility, and emerging technologies (connected and automated vehicle technology, sensing, cam...

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that focuses on opportunities, approaches, and lessons that can be applied to both smart cities and corridor management.

The International Transport Forum has released a report that provides an overview of the social-psychological factors that are likely to influence the trust and acceptance of shared Automated Vehicles.

The U.S. Office of the Inspector General has released a report that summarizes the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s processes for approving civil Unmanned Aircraft Systems and overseeing their safe operation.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released new data sets on its web-based research data exchange that provides a transportation data sharing system for both archived and real-time data from multiple sources and modes. These data sets cover the following environments: Intelligent Network Flow Optimization Simulation (INFLO S...

The U.S. Office of the Inspector General has released a report that identifies formal changes the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) has made to its programs’ scope, including costs and schedules.

The Traffic Injury Research Foundation in Canada has released a report that details a 2016 survey that examined driver knowledge, attitudes, perceptions, and practices related to emerging automated vehicles.

TRB recorded a series of videos in September 2016 on the development and use of cyber physical systems during the construction of transportation projects. Cyber physical systems integrate computing, sensing, networking, and communication capabilities with physical processes. The technology has the potential to improve the coordination, mobility, productivity, and safety during the construction ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released the Open Source Application Development Portal (OSADP) that provides access to ITS applications. These applications are available for download and are free to the public.

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, October 19, 2016 from 2:00 to 3:30PM ET that explains how to conduct basic measurements of sign and pavement marking retroreflectivity using equipment available to state department of transportation (DOT) employees. This webinar summarized sign retroreflectivity assessment methods used to meet the new minimum requirements in the Manual on Uniform Traffic Co...

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a fact sheet that provides the current state of congestion and reliability in the largest urban areas in the United States, with a focus on successful operational strategies.

The Urban Transportation Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago has released a report that provides an overview of transit challenges in the Chicago area, and an overview of area transit changes related to recent innovations, emerging technologies, rideshare services, and possible impacts of autonomous vehicles.

The Transportation Policy Center at Texas A&M University has released a report that examines technology disruption and associated policies in the transportation sector, including the areas of mobile computing devices, automated vehicle technologies, and immersive interfaces.

The Advancing Transportation Leadership and Safety (ATLAS) Center at the University of Michigan has released a report that proposes a framework for incorporating driver behaviors into a microscopic traffic simulation for automated vehicle/connected vehicle applications.

TRB participated in a “Connected Cars and Autonomous Vehicles Roundtable” hosted by Congressman Dan Lipinksi (D-IL) on June 22, 2016. This event explored challenges and opportunities for the deployment of autonomous technology, and discussed potential policy solutions to promote full integration of connected vehicles into transportation networks. TRB Standing Committee volunteer, Ginger Goodin,...

TRB conducted a webinar on Wednesday, July 13, 2016, from 2:00-3:30PM ET that featured research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) that assists airport operators in understanding how unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) can operate safely on and around airports. The webinar discussed how the research helps airports prepare for bringing UAS activity to their facilities. Th...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released new data sets on its web-based research data exchange that provides a transportation data sharing system for both archived and real-time data from multiple sources and modes. These data sets cover the following environments: Intelligent Network Flow Optimization (INFLO), Integrated...

TRB recorded a series of videos in May 2016 that provides information on the impact of automated transit systems on the built environment.  Transit systems being planned and designed today will be functional for several decades.  The introduction of fully automated and connected vehicles could have significant implications for transit facilities.  These vehicles could provide who...

A new webpage on transformational technologies in transportation is now available from TRB. This resource contains the latest research results, ongoing research, publications, news and events in the area of transformational technologies. Key technologies include connected and automated vehicles, shared use services; unmanned aerial systems (drones); NextGen, Internet-of-Things, smart cities; bi...

The Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University has released a report that considers safety issues of bikesharing and evaluates injury rates of bikesharing compared with benchmarks of personal bicycling.

TRB Executive Director Neil Pedersen is featured in a video produced by AASHTO's Transportation TV discussing three critical transportation issues: Transformational Technologies, Resilience, and Public Health and Transportation. Pedersen explains how researchers are preparing for an evolutionary shift to connected and autonomous vehicles; how environmental changes are impacting infrastructure; ...

TRB conducted a webinar on Monday, March 7, 2016 from 1:00PM to 2:30PM ET that focused on advanced solutions that may help transportation professionals envision cities beyond private vehicles. The goal of this webinar was to present diverse alternatives to driving a private car, from "alternative" multimodal transportation applications to autonomous vehicles. This webinar also introduced policy...

The Virginia Tech Transportation Institute has released a report that assesses driving risk in the United States nationally and for the Google Self-Driving Car Project by considering crash rates reported to the police, crash rates for different types of roadways, and scenarios that give rise to unreported crashes.

The Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute at North Dakota State University has released a report that explains a new methodology for incorporating travel times calculated from intelligent transportation system technology into Wyoming's road and weather condition reporting system. https://www.ugpti.org/resources/reports/downloads/mpc15-295.pdf

The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that researches how automated and connected vehicle technology could enhance the mobility of aging populations.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released an updated version of its web-based research data exchange that provides a transportation data sharing system for both archived and real-time data from multiple sources and modes. This new version contains the Data Graph tool as an alternative method to view the data and select sub...

TRB conducted a webinar on May 13, 2015, from 2:00pm to 4:00pm ET that presented material developed for an NCHRP project on Effective Practices for the Protection of Transportation Infrastructure from Cyber Incidents. This material is focused on the delivery of fundamental strategy, management and planning information associated with transportation control systems cybersecurity, and its applica...

TRB conducted a webinar on Tuesday, November 17, 2015 from 2:00 PM to 3:30 PM ET that presented material developed for the NCHRP Report 20-59(48):  Effective Practices for the Protection of Transportation Infrastructure from Cyber Incidents . The project focuses on fundamental strategic, operational, and planning activities associated with transit control systems cybersecurity. Participant...

TRB conducted a webinar on Thursday, November 5, 2015, from 2:00 to 3:30PM ET that featured research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP). The research discussed topics of ever growing concern to the airport community. Facility managers and planners, information technology professionals, and airport consultants and tenants gained an understanding of the issues caused b...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology has released a summary of its connected vehicle pilot deployment program—a program that aims to enable safe, interoperable, networked wireless communications among vehicles, infrastructure, and personal communications devices.

The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that considers the extent to which small unmanned aerial systems could be used to inspect the structural integrity of bridges and high mast luminaires.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that examines stakeholders' views and the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA’s) strategy for NextGen's global interoperability, and actions the FAA has taken to coordinate with other countries.

The Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology at the U.S. Department of Transportation has released a fact sheet that describes its ongoing vehicle-to pedestrian communications research and the associated devices and applications that can be used.

The U.S. Department of Transportation has released a fact sheet that describes the connected vehicle safety applications are being designed to reduce or eliminate crashes through data transmissions that are vehicle-to-infrastructure, vehicle-to-vehicle, and vehicle-to-pedestrian.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that addresses the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA's) progress toward integration of Unmanned Aerial Systems (UASs) into the national airspace, research and development support for UASs, and other countries’ progress toward UAS integration.

TRB conducted a webinar on August 26, 2015, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that focused on using information from connected vehicles to provide data for improved operational efficiency. Webinar presenters discussed how telematic information, such as vehicle location, engine diagnostic codes, snow plow operation details, Antilock Brake Systems (ABS) activation, differential wheel speeds, and camera im...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released an updated version of its web-based research data exchange that provides a transportation data sharing system for both archived and real-time data from multiple sources and modes. This new version contains two new data environments associated with intersection queues and weather se...

The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas at Austin has released a compilation of white papers that discusses the emerging technologies of autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles, and cloud computing and crowdsourcing.

The International Transport Forum has released a report that examines large, real-time, data sets that may be used to address operational issues for transportation services and activity.

The Florida Department of Transportation has released a report that explains a National Transportation Communications for ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) Protocol (NTCIP) automated testing system for NTCIP-compliant actuated signal controllers.

TRB conducted a webinar on March 17, 2015, from 2:00pm to 3:30pm ET that featured an update on the research conducted by TRB’s Airport Cooperative Research Program (ACRP) on the Next Generation Air Transportation System (“NextGen”)—a term used to describe a number of federal programs designed to modernize the National Airspace System (NAS). Webinar presenters provided a general overview of ACRP...

The National Center for Transit Research at the University of South Florida has released a report that reviews the state of automated vehicle technology in transit, including the technology that could be used in demonstration projects.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office has released a report that summarizes the deployment of a collision avoidance application—called the Transit Safety Retrofit Package—in a large-scale field demonstration designed to show potential benefits of Dedicated Short-Range Communications (DSRC) wireless technology.

The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released a report that details technical, policy, institutional, and organizational issues in advancing research across all surface transportation modes.

The Center for Transportation Research at the University of Texas at Austin has released a report that describes the Texas Technology Task Force’s review of autonomous vehicles, connected vehicles, electric vehicles, cloud computing, and crowdsourcing technologies to help ensure a market for these technologies in Texas.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General has released a report that identifies and assesses NextGen’s timeframe for implementation, benefits, costs, readiness for deployment, and possible risks.

The Mineta Transportation Institute at San Jose State University released a report that highlights public information technology-based bikesharing activities in North America and reviews changes in travel behavior of participants in these programs.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General has released a report that considers the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) efforts to mitigate safety risks for integrating unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into the national airspace system. In addition, the report evaluates FAA’s progress and challenges in meeting UAS requirements cited in the FAA Modernization and ...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released a web-based research data exchange that provides a transportation data sharing system for both archived and real-time data from multiple sources and modes. This new data sharing capability may support the needs of ITS researchers and developers.

The U.S. Government Accountability Office has released a report that identifies the extent to which the U.S. Department of Homeland Security and other stakeholders have taken steps to address cybersecurity in the maritime port environment.

VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that discusses implementation and evaluation of an automated vehicle warning system that connects a car’s horn and headlight to an already-existing sensor system. This report is written in Swedish and contains a summary in English.

The Norwegian Centre for Transport Research has released a report that estimates the number of traffic fatalities that can be prevented by deploying different driver support systems (which are part of technologies referred to as intelligent transportation systems).

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a fact sheet that describes an exploratory advanced research program project designed to improve the efficiency and safety of freeway merges using connected vehicle technology.

The U.S. Department of Transportation Office of Inspector General has released a report that discusses long-standing issues, cost increases, schedule delays, and performance NextGen air traffic control projects.

The Virginia Department of Transportation has released a report that develops and investigates techniques that can be used to estimate positions of unequipped vehicles based on behaviors of equipped vehicles.

The University of Minnesota Center for Transportation Studies has released a report that discusses the development of chemical-based hydrogen storage materials, the efficient generation of hydrogen, and recycling of spent materials for use at remote traffic signals that lack access to a regular power supply.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of Inspector General has released a report about the effects of program and contract management on implementation of the En Route Automation Modernization (ERAM)—a part of the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen)—which is being developed to replace and enhance existing hardware and software for managing high-altitude air traffic.

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that assesses the use of intelligent transportation systems technologies and operational concepts at and near land border crossings between the United States and Mexico.

The Mineta Transportation Institute has released a report that evaluates public bikesharing in North America, reviews the advances in technology, and summarizes major events during its rapid expansion.

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that explores a single camera-based video system for automatic traffic data collection for roundabouts and intersections.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has released a report that examines the effect of sensory information on pilot reactions to system failures within an unmanned aircraft system control station simulation. The report also explores the level of automation used in controlling the aircraft and the level of manned flight experience of the participants.

The Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota has released a report that examines the utility and potential distraction associated with in-vehicle signing functions of personal navigation devices.

The Washington State Department of Transportation has released a report that explores a standardized approach for evaluating intelligent transportation system (ITS) projects to 17 ITS earmark projects.

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a fact sheet that explores the concept of vehicle-to-infrastructure cooperation via the Intelligent Transportation Systems initiative

The University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Studies has released a report that explores development of a framework for the design of concept of operations that use small uninhabited aerial systems to support intelligent transportation system (ITS) applications of highway and transportation infrastructure monitoring.

The Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota has released a report that examines a traffic information system that is portable to work zones and that promises to improve safety conditions for U.S. highway workers.

The Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota has released a report that examines the architecture, functionality, and field demonstration of a communication system that can be used to improve traffic efficiency and safety in work zones.

TRB is sponsoring the 19th National Conference on Rural Public and Intercity Bus Transportation on October 24-27, 2010, in Burlington, Vermont. This conference is designed to address key rural public and intercity bus transportation themes including accessibility; rural transit policy and planning; alternative fuels; intelligent transportation systems and rural transit; regional systems; networ...

The Transport Research Knowledge Centre has released a report that explores the results of completed European research projects and policy developments regarding intelligent transportation systems.

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a compendium of information on available work zone training and guides. The compendium is organized into nine categories that include design, inspection, intelligent transportation systems, law enforcement, work zone management, nighttime operations, short duration work, traffic control, and worker safety. The compendium includes information ...

TRB is co-organizing the American Public Transportation Association Bus and Paratransit Conference on May 2-5, 2010, in Cleveland, Ohio. The conference is designed to enhance the technical skills and increase the effectiveness of today’s bus and paratransit workforce. Issues to be explored at the conference include bus rapid transit (BRT) operations, maintenance, and management; BRT and in...

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that examines the development of a data warehouse that will manage the information stored in 29 Vehicle Classification sites and 12 Weigh-in-Motion sites installed on various Minnesota roadways.

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that examines a prototype computer-based teen driver support system that provides real-time feedback to teens regarding speed limit violations and warns of upcoming speed zone changes.

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that examines a system that directly determines the distance traveled by a vehicle and uses this as a basis for charging a fee that reflects road use.

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that explores issues associated with the use of non-motorized modes of travel in location-based measures of accessibility as part of zone-based travel forecasting models.

The Washington State Department of Transportation has released a report that explores a previously developed, standardized approach for evaluating intelligent transportation systems (ITS), and applies this approach to analyze 17 ITS earmark projects.

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that explores a proposal to build a hardware-based vehicle tracking system to improve real-time high frame rate vehicle tracking.

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that examines the results from a multi-year study that includes the use of both inductive loop detectors (ILDs) and magnetoresistive sensors for in-situ vehicle classification.

The University of Minnesota’s Center for Transportation Studies has released a report that examines the use of information systems and intelligent transportation systems in terms of responses to vehicle crash emergencies.

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that explores the relationship between sleep deprivation and the driving performance of commercial motor vehicle drivers.

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that explores the potential for an intelligent transportation systems countermeasure to reduce the number of collisions that result from red-light violations at signalized intersections.

The U.S. Department of Transportation Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released a report that examines how six agencies in California, Florida, Maryland, Massachusetts and New York used and continue to use ITS to help reduce congestion generated by planned special events.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s ITS Joint Program Office has released the latest in its series of encyclopedic reports that synthesize information on the benefits, costs, extent of deployment, and lessons learned about Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) based on scans that have taken place across the country and around the world.  An electronic version of the report is...

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released the latest version of its intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and operations research guide.  The guide includes a listing of more than 500 documents, videos, websites, training courses, software tools, and points-of-contact related to ITS and transportation operations.  To order a free printed copy of the resource guid...

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that examines a system designed to aid in the counting of people in groups in order to help to estimate the count of people at a scene in real time.

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute at the University of Minnesota has released a report that explores the state-of-art with regard to identifying highway sections where median barriers may be most effective in preventing median-crossing crashes.

The Texas Transportation Institute has released a report that explores the concept of an electrified guideway infrastructure providing energy in real time to automated vehicles.  The report also examines the technology readiness of five systems.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Office of the Inspector General has released a report that explores the Federal Aviation Administration's (FAA) air traffic control modernization efforts.  The report examines trends in recent FAA capital spending, changes in cost and schedule baselines of major acquisitions, and the effect of the transition to the Next Generation Air Transpor...

VTI, the Swedish National Road and Transport Research Institute, has released a report that explores the safety impact of various intelligent transportation systems technologies that can be found in Sweden’s car fleet.  The report is written in Swedish with an English summary.

The Missouri Department of Transportation has released a report that explores intelligent transportation system procurement guidelines, policies, and procedures of state departments of transportation.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s ITS Joint Program Office has updated its Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Applications Overview website.  The website includes information on the cost, benefits, and deployment of more than 170 different ITS technologies.  The site now includes a list of U.S. DOT experts and their contact information so users can delve further int...

The U.S. Government Accountability Office (GAO) has released a report that examines the steps the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) has taken to facilitate the integration of unmanned aircraft systems (UAS) into combat operations.  The report also explores the DOD’s approach to allocating and tasking its intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance (ISR) assets considers all availa...

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has released the latest version of its intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and operations research guide.  The guide includes a listing of more than 400 documents, videos, websites, training courses, software tools, and points-of-contact related to ITS and transportation operations.  To order a free printed copy of the resource guid...

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a handbook and a primer on testing programs for transportation management systems.  The handbook is designed to provide direction, guidance, and recommended practices for test planning, test procedures, and test execution for the acquisition, operation, and maintenance of transportation management systems and intelligent transportation ...

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has released a report that explores 15 control systems for unmanned aircraft.  The report examines four levels of horizontal aircraft control, four levels of vertical control, and three levels of speed control.

The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration has released a report that explores the agency’s efforts to transform air traffic control from a ground-based system to a satellite-based system.

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration has released a report that examines a process for creating a regional intelligent transportation systems (ITS) architecture and includes supporting examples of each product.  The report also explores mainstreaming ITS into the planning and project development processes.

The University of Minnesota has created a new website associated with its Center for Excellence in Rural Safety.  The Center is designed to provide citizen-centered research, training, and outreach to enhance rural safety and to meet the online and seminar training needs of rural transportation practitioners and policymakers.  The Center explores policy, behavior, and technology appr...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released a series of leaflets that summarize the benefits, costs, extent of deployment, and lessons learned related to the use of intelligent transportation systems strategies for traffic incident management , traveler information , work zones , and traffic signal control .

The U.S. Department of Transportations’ Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released a report that examines advanced parking management systems in Washington State, Illinois, and Maryland.  The study also explores the benefits and costs of this technology, as well as lessons learned in the areas of policy and planning, design and deployment, and managem...

The U.S. Federal Transit Administration has released a report that examines intelligent transportation systems technologies that are designed to improve transportation for older adults, people with disabilities, and people with lower incomes.

The U.S. Federal Transit Administration has released a report that examines the deployment status of transit intelligent transportation systems technologies, reviews lessons learned from deployment experiences, and explores what the future holds for advanced public transportation systems (APTS).

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute of the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies has released a report that examines macroscopic approaches to contraflow network reconfiguration incorporating road capacity constraints, multiple sources, congestion factor, and scalability.

The Intelligent Transportation Systems Institute of the University of Minnesota's Center for Transportation Studies has released a report that examines how the human processing of motion under the conditions created by blowing snow causes drivers to fail to detect that they are approaching a vehicle ahead.

The U.S. Federal Transit Administration has released a report that explores the current deployment status of transit intelligent transportation system technologies, provides lessons learned based on deployment experiences, and examines future trends in advanced public transportation systems.

The Western Transportation Institute at Montana State University has released a report on intelligent transportation systems installations to alert motorists of dangerously windy conditions automatically. The systems display warnings to drivers at locations where they can stop and wait until the winds die down or where they can decide to take a longer alternate route.

The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office has recently posted to the Internet a report that evaluates the 511 telephone traveler information system "Model Deployment" in Arizona.  The national 511 Model Deployment supported a wide range of enhancements to the existing statewide Arizona 511 system, including the addit...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released a brochure that highlights the use of ITS technologies in coordinating and improving human services transportation.  The brochure focuses on the benefits of ITS technologies to transit passengers and explores how technologies that benefit human services transportation u...

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office has released a brochure that highlights the use of ITS technologies in coordinating and improving human services transportation.  The brochure focuses on the benefits of these ITS technologies to agencies that provide human services transportation such as higher quality service, fle...

The California Department of Transportation has released a report that examines potential synergies between hydrogen energy systems and intelligent transportation systems (ITS).  The report reviews activities in California and in other states and by the U.S. Department of Transportation to investigate and demonstrate the use of hydrogen as a transportation fuel.  In addition, the rep...

The Texas Transportation Institute has released a report that is designed to establish a fundamental level of understanding of wireline communication concepts and technologies associated with Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), convey and explain a comprehensive process for assessing communication needs for ITS deployments, and create a set of workshop materials for future training progr...

The U.S. Federal Highway Administration’s ITS Joint Program Office has added state-specific deployment statistics and information on the benefits, costs, and lessons learned to its intelligent transportation systems (ITS) website.  The new website component is designed to provide quick and easy access to a comprehensive set of information relating to ITS in all 50 states, Puerto Ric...

The U.S. Federal Transit Administration has released a report that defines a system specification for how Intelligent Transportation Systems technologies can be used to help avoid transit vehicle frontal collisions.

The Oregon Department of Transportation (ODOT) has released a report that examines automated vehicle-mounted data collection equipment.

The Federal Highway Administration has released the 2004 version of its ITS/Operations Resource Guide. The guide is a listing of more than 400 documents, videos, websites, training courses, software tools, and points of contact related to intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and transportation operations.

The U.S. Department of Transportation’s ITS Joint Program Office has released its latest in a biennial series of reports that synthesizes the information contained in the ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) Benefits and Costs Database .

The Federal Highway Administration’s Office of Operations and the ITS Joint Program Office have released three case studies examining the use of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in work zones.  The studies highlight work zones in Arizona, Illinois, and Michigan. Each study describes the work zone, how the ITS system was selected, how it worked, the benefits experienced, and ...

The University of Texas at Austin’s Center for Transportation Research has released a report that utilizes the Bayesian Updating and Weighted Average methods to estimate highway speed and travel time by integrating the Automated Vehicle Identification and Inductive Loops Detectors data extracted from San Antonio’s Traffic Management Center (TransGuide).

The Federal Highway Administration has released the 2004 version of its ITS/Operations Resource Guide. The guide is a listing of more than 400 documents, videos, websites, training courses, software tools, and points-of-contact related to intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and transportation operations.

The U.S. Department of TransportationÂ’s ITS (intelligent transportation systems) Joint Program Office has released a report that evaluates the Freight Information Real-time System for Transport (FIRST) intermodal freight ITS prototype system. FIRST is an Internet-based, real-time network that integrates numerous sources of freight location and status into a single Internet portal to allow port...

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) is conducting a project to prepare a user-friendly handbook on currently used intelligent transportation systems (ITS) and transit ITS technologies that have the greatest promise for transit market research.

TRB’s National Cooperative Highway Research Program (NCHRP) is conducting a project to develop a guide to contracting ITS projects and services. The guide will highlight best practices and recommend contracting strategies and contract types, terms, and conditions for the development, integration, system acceptance, warranty, maintenance, and upgrade of ITS.

A study by the U.S. Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office examines the overall effectiveness of Advanced Transportation Information System data fusion - the combining of data to estimate or predict the state of some aspect of the surface transportation world.

TRB's Transit Cooperative Research Program (TCRP) is conducting a project to examine the costs, impacts, and effectiveness of implementing BRT components such as exclusive right-of-ways, limited-stop service, Intelligent Transportation Systems, and advanced technology vehicles.

The U.S. Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office has released results of its 6th annual ITS practitioners survey designed to measure progress towards ITS deployment goals.

Canadian Transport Minister David Collenette has released Innovation Through Partnership, Transport Canada's Intelligent Transportation Systems research and development plan.

A report by the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Institute of the Center for Transportation Studies at the University of Minnesota investigates the use of ITS to monitor vehicle and pedestrian positions, trajectories, velocities, and other data in order to predict and to warn pedestrians and drivers of real-time hazard situations.

A report by the Federal Highway Administration's Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office includes lessons learned from 24 U.S. cities that integrated previously disparate ITS systems.