Title: INTEGRATION CHALLENGES OF INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS IMPLEMENTATION IN TRANSIT AGENCIES
Abstract: This paper examines the goals and benefits of ITS integration and discusses the institutional, operational and technical barriers in achieving them. It attempts to balance the often-competing project goals of cost and schedule efficiency with broad organizational goals of ease of maintenance and coordinated management. It uses data obtained from interviews of ITS project managers in large systems such as Chicago Transit Authority, Kings County (Seattle) Metro, New Jersey Transit, and New York City Transit and medium and small-sized systems such as Montgomery County, Maryland and Ann Arbor, Michigan. The paper provides lessons for project managers as well as the transit industry as the ITS community is approaching widespread testing and implementation of data and communication standards that enable open exchange of information between and among transit and traffic institutions. This contributes to the debate of mandating ITS standards and/or requiring ITS projects to demonstrate consistency with the national system architecture
Publication Year: 2001
Publication Date: 2001-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
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