Opportunities for Progressive Deployment of Intelligent Transportation Systems/Automated Highway System Technologies in Support of Commercial Vehicle Operations

1998 ◽  
Vol 1651 (1) ◽  
pp. 107-110 ◽  
Author(s):  
Bjorn Klingenberg
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Commercial Vehicle ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Transportation Safety ◽  
Operating Efficiency ◽  
Department Of Transportation ◽  
Great Progress ◽  
Automated Highway ◽  
Highway System

The U.S. Department of Transportation has undertaken the Intelligent Vehicle Initiative (IVI) to improve transportation safety and productivity by accelerating the progressive deployment of intelligent transportation systems/automated highway system (ITS/AHS) technologies. Commercial vehicle operations (CVO) stand a unique chance to benefit from this initiative. Truck manufacturers and the trucking industry have made great progress in raising the standards of safety and operating efficiency over the past few years, but further significant advancements can be accomplished only by increased automation of vehicle controls and operations. That opportunity is addressed.

scholarly journals Addressing the Safety of Transportation Cyber-Physical Systems: Development and Validation of a Verbal Warning Utility Scale for Intelligent Transportation Systems

2015 ◽  
Vol 2015 ◽  
pp. 1-13
Author(s):  
Yiqi Zhang ◽  
Changxu Wu ◽  
Chunming Qiao ◽  
Adel Sadek ◽  
Kevin F. Hulme
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Driving Simulator ◽  
Experimental Studies ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Cyber Physical Systems ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Driving Safety ◽  
Transportation Safety ◽  
Physical Systems ◽  
Utility Scale

As an important application of Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), advances in intelligent transportation systems (ITS) improve driving safety by informing drivers of hazards with warnings in advance. The evaluation of the warning effectiveness is an important issue in facilitating communication of ITS. The goal of the present study was to develop a scale to evaluate the warning utility, namely, the effectiveness of a warning in preventing accidents in general. A driving simulator study was conducted to validate the Verbal Warning Utility Scale (VWUS) in a simulated driving environment. The reliability analysis indicated a good split-half reliability for the VWUS with a Spearman-Brown Coefficient of 0.873. The predictive validity of VWUS in measuring the effectiveness of the verbal warnings was verified by the significant prediction of safety benefits indicated by variables, including reduced kinetic energy and collision rate. Compared to conducting experimental studies, this scale provides a simpler way to evaluate overall utility of verbal warnings in communicating associated hazards in intelligent transportation systems. This scale can be further applied to improve the design of warnings of ITS in order to improve transportation safety. The applications of the scale in nonverbal warning situations and limitations of the current scale are also discussed.

Virtual Automated Transit System (VATS) and Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Application to Intermodal Freight Movements in Northeastern Illinois

2004 ◽  
Author(s):  
Farid Amirouche ◽  
Khurram Mahmudi ◽  
David Zavattero
Keyword(s):  
Traffic Safety ◽  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Easy Access ◽  
State Governments ◽  
Transit System ◽  
Interstate Highway System ◽  
Roadway Design ◽  
Highway System

This paper addresses the issues faced by local and state governments concerning increasing traffic congestions, inadequate roadway design and traffic safety problems caused by the freight truck traffic; on the other hand, the freight industry is seeking to improve productivity by having easy access and direct routes between the intermodal facilities and the interstate highway system.

Using the Canadian ITS architecture for evaluating the safety benefits of intelligent transportation systems

2003 ◽  
Vol 30 (6) ◽  
pp. 970-980 ◽  
Author(s):  
Homayoun Vahidi ◽  
Tarek Sayed
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Safety Evaluation ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
World Market ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Evaluation Framework ◽  
Transportation Safety ◽  
Unique Framework ◽  
Annual World

The benefits of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) are indirectly represented by the annual world market for ITS, which according to ITS Canada (2002) will be $90 billion CAN by 2011. Improved safety is often cited as the top goal of implementing ITS. Despite the magnitude of these investments and their underlying goal to improve transportation safety, there are deficiencies in the quantity and quality of reported ITS safety benefits. Many of the benefits reported to date suffer from poor data, lack of an evaluation framework, and inconsistent terminology used to attribute benefits to ITS application areas. This paper explores these issues, while attempting to address one of them, namely the lack of an evaluation framework for assessing the safety benefits of ITS. Accordingly, a unique framework is developed based on the Canadian ITS architecture. The framework includes the identification of evaluation metrics that are mapped to the market packages in the Canadian ITS architecture and correlated with each other to capture the "cause" and "effect" flow of benefits. This framework will benefit future ITS safety evaluations by providing a structure for undertaking evaluations using terminology consistent with the Canadian ITS architecture.Key words: intelligent transportation systems, ITS architecture, safety benefits, safety evaluation.

scholarly journals Exploring Critical Success Factors for Blockchain-based Intelligent Transportation Systems

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 ◽  
pp. 27-44
Author(s):  
Murat Tahir Çaldağ ◽  
Ebru Gökalp
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Critical Success Factors ◽  
Success Factors ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Transportation Safety ◽  
Critical Success ◽  
Blockchain Technology ◽  
Transportation Capacity

Utilization of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) provides increasing demands on decreasing traffic congestions, transportation safety, and environmental problems as well as increasing transportation capacity. Over the past few years, one of the most disruptive and transformational technologies, blockchain technology, has emerged. As a result of offering more security, privacy, traceability, transparency, and decentralized authority, the utilization of blockchain technology in ITS have increased drastically. Despite this increase, there is a lack of a good understanding of what are the Critical Success Factors (CSF) to support IT providers for designing their products properly, and to provide industry leaders to focus on the main drivers of their outstanding projects. This study aims to explore and analyze CSFs that can facilitate the success of blockchain-based ITS, which has so far been neglected despite its remarkable relevance. In doing so, eleven primary studies, identified as a result of conducting a systematic literature review (SLR), were taken as a baseline to develop the model of CSFs. Additionally, since the number of existing studies related to CSFs for blockchain and ITS are limited, an expert panel was formed to evaluate and contribute to the model. The developed model of CSF for blockchain-based ITS, having a comprehensive approach, consists of 29 CSFs defined under five main contexts, namely technical, management, governance, quality of service, and quality of life. Doi: 10.28991/esj-2020-SP1-03 Full Text: PDF

Ohio Motor-Carrier Preferences for Intelligent Transportation Systems/Commercial Vehicle Operations Innovations

1996 ◽  
Vol 1522 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-76
Author(s):  
Mark R. McCord ◽  
Dario Hidalgo
Keyword(s):  
Intelligent Transportation Systems ◽  
Rating Scale ◽  
Commercial Vehicle ◽  
Intelligent Transportation ◽  
Electronic Data Interchange ◽  
Transportation Systems ◽  
Government Agencies ◽  
Institutional Perspective ◽  
Motor Carrier ◽  
One Stop

The results of a survey sent to 400 motor carriers registered with the Ohio Trucking Association are reported. The survey was designed to lend insight on motor-carrier preferences for seven innovations of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) that deal with the interface between government agencies and commercial vehicle operators. A rating scale was used and interpreted in such a way that it allowed for more meaningful and theoretically acceptable analyses than have been seen to date in the field of ITS/commercial vehicle operations (CVO). The 93 responses to the survey showed a marked preference for the innovations. The respondents preferred innovations facilitating application processes to those reducing en route time. Within the category of application processes they preferred one-stop operations to electronic data interchange concepts. Within the one-stop operations category they preferred the model most difficult to implement from an institutional perspective, one in which the government agencies would consolidate their authority in a single motor-carrier agency. The results did not depend on the size of the carrier or on the carrier's status as private or for-hire. The importance and limitations of these findings are discussed, as well as why they are surprising.

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