Surface transportation systems in the United States today face a number of significant challenges. Congestion and safety continue to present serious problems in spite of the nation's superb roadway systems. Congestion imposes an exorbitant cost on productivity, costing the nation an estimated $40 billion per year. Vehicle crashes cause another $150 billion burden to the economy, and result in the loss of 41,000 lives annually. Inefficient surface transportation, whether in privately owned vehicles, commercial motor carriers, or public transit vehicles, constitutes a burden on the nation's quality of life through wasted energy, increased emissions and serious threats to public safety. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), formerly Intelligent Vehicle-Highway Systems (IVHS), offer technology-based solutions to the compelling challenges confronting the nation's surface transportation systems, while concurrently establishing the basis for dealing with future demands through a strategic, intermodal view of transportation. ITS applications offer proven and emerging technologies in fields such as data processing, communications, control, navigation, electronics and the supporting hardware and software systems capable of addressing transportation challenges. While ITS technology applications alone cannot completely satisfy growing transportation needs, they provide the means to revise current approaches to problem solving, and they improve the efficiency and effectiveness of existing systems. When deployed and integrated effectively, ITS technologies will enable the surface transportation system to operate as multimodal, multi-jurisdictional entities providing meaningful benefits, including more efficient use of infrastructure and energy resources, complemented by measurable improvements in safety, mobility, productivity and accessibility.


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    Title :

    Department of Transportation's Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Projects Book (January, 2002)


    Publication date :

    2002


    Size :

    786 pages


    Type of media :

    Report


    Type of material :

    No indication


    Language :

    English





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