ITS PCB Update

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June 12, 2018
U.S. Department of Transportation

Update:

Transportation Technology Tournament – Finalist Presentations

June 28, 2:00-3:00 PM ET– Nine student teams from eight universities have entered the Transportation Technology Tournament, which has been organized by the ITS PCB Program and the National Operations Center of Excellence (NOCoE). The students completed their training requirements for the tournament in April and submitted their ITS solutions to the judging panel at the end of May. Solutions address a variety of issues such as pedestrian safety and reversible lane operation. Join the six finalists in their six-minute pitch for their ITS solutions in a public webinar on June 28. The finalist teams will follow up their webinar presentations with in-person presentations at the Annual Meeting of the Institute of Transportation Engineers in Minneapolis in August.  

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More FREE ITS Training Opportunities

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Report Released: 

Rural Connected Vehicle Gap Analysis

The ITS Joint Program Office released a report entitled "Rural Connected Vehicle Gap Analysis: Factors Impeding Deployment and Recommendations for Moving Forward." The report identifies potential challenges pertaining to the deployment of connected vehicles across rural areas and offers potential solutions that address those challenges. 

 

 
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From Our Partners:

The Impact of Automated Traffic Signal Performance Measures (ATSPM) on the Design and Operation of Signalized Intersections

June 21, 1:00-2:30 PM ET– This webinar will discuss topics in traffic signal design and operations that agencies should consider when approaching an ATSPM deployment. Decisions made during the traffic signal design process, such as the use and placement of advance detection, can determine the ultimate capabilities of an ATSPM system and help to improve an agency’s traffic operations and signal maintenance.
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From the T3e Archive: 

Advances in Modeling Transportation Supply and Demand (12/12/17)

The University of California at Berkeley’s Smart Cities Research Center and Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory share findings from their work to develop new capabilities to synthesize activity-based travel demand and to model the supply of the transportation system through agent-based modeling. They applied machine learning techniques to cellular data to extract statistically representative mobility patterns, allowing them to generate synthetic populations from any urban region. 
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From Our Partners:

The Federal Transit Administration (FTA) Strategic Transit Automation Research (STAR) Plan 

The STAR plan provides a framework for the transit industry to pursue transit bus automation in a safe, efficient, and economically sound manner. Built on a foundation of stakeholder engagement, use case analysis, and an extensive literature review, the plan defines activities in the areas of enabling research, integrated demonstrations, and strategic partnerships.