- Author
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Transportation Research Board
- Title
- Emerging Concepts and Products for Intelligent Transportation Systems. Annual Progress Report 2. Second Program Year.
- Coporate
- Transportation Research Board, Washington, DC
- Report
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Annual Progress Report 2; Second Program Year
December 1995
118 p.
- Keywords
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transportation
- Identifiers
- Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Project; Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS); IDEA projects continuing from first program year; IDEA projects initiated in second program year
- Abstract
- This report presents a summary of technical projects conducted during the second program year of the Innovations Deserving Exploratory Analysis (IDEA) Program for Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). The ITS-IDEA Program fosters functional concepts and discoveries that result in new approaches, innovative tools, and advanced systems for application to ITS and that accelerate ITS deployment. The ITS-IDEA Program is jointly supported by the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), and Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) and is managed by the National Research Council's Transportation Research Board (TRB). ITS-IDEA is part of broader IDEA programs for advancing surface and intermodal transportation systems, including highway systems (NCHRP-IDEA) and transit systems (TRANSIT-IDEA). A summary of awards in all three IDEA programs appears in Appendix 1 of this report. The IDEA program is open to all individuals, including entrepreneurs, small and large business, and institutions involved with products needed for ITS applications in the United States. An ITS-IDEA Program announcement appears in Appendix 2. The ITS-IDEA Program provides an opportunity for investigating new and unproven ITS concepts and for evaluating novel applications of defense, aerospace, and other high technology to ITS. This report describes several emerging ITS-IDEA products that support ITS user services. Because effective implementation of ITS user services requires innovative approaches in technology areas as well as nontechnology areas, the 1996 program announcement includes priority nontechnology areas related to novel applications of social, behavioral, institutional, and management practices that could accelerate ITS deployment.