ITS Integration of the Future - A Patchwork Quilt

摘要

Future ITS deployments must adhere to a new set of “rules” to take full advantage of the capabilitiesnow emerging from both a systemic and operational perspective; these opportunities cannot beleveraged unless we change the stovepipe deployment mentality currently in vogue. While there willalways be a few justifiable and explainable exceptions, it is safe to say that future ITS deploymentsin any of the major ITS functional areas (Traffic Management, Transit, Traveler Information, Tollingand Connected Vehicle) must address the existence (actual or planned) of other deployments in thesame “vertical” and/or in the other major ITS area(s). This requirement for integrated deploymentswill increase as we move toward the integrated or “Smart City”; our political leadership will demandnothing less. We are seeing the beginning of this migration in the ICM model deployments. Tounderstand the motivation for reaching beyond any one system’s boundaries requires we examinethree basic pressures driving this change. These can be categorized as situational, positional andfinancial. We can no longer deploy ITS in a non-integrated, stovepipe manner. To meet this mandaterequires that we understand data in every aspect and context and clearly identify and support theintra- and inter-system relationships.