| Featured Resources |
 | ITS Joint Program Office Website |
| This site is the official website of the U.S. Department of Transportation's ITS Joint Program Office. The website links to pages relating to all aspects of the National ITS Program, including ten major ITS initiatives. Sections of the website cover special topics, such as architecture, standards, and telecommunications. Technical assistance is available from the ITS Benefits Database, ITS Costs Database, ITS Lessons Learned Knowledge Resource (LLKR), and ITS Deployment Statistics Database, as well as the ITS Learning Center. The website also includes a list of contacts (in the area titled "About Us") and related links, including the ITS Library and National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC). Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.its.dot.gov. | |
| FHWA Office of Operations Website |
| This site is the official website of the Federal Highway Administration's Office of Operations. The website contains pages relating to all aspects of transportation operations, grouped into program areas or themes: reducing non-recurring congestion, reducing recurring congestion, improving day-to-day operations, fostering regional collaboration, measuring operations performance, improving freight operations, enhancing emergency transportation response, and facilitating integrated ITS deployment. The site also contains news briefs, speeches by Office of Operations staff, press releases, publications, and related links. A very helpful feature is the office directory, which lists featured transportation operations topic areas along with links to corresponding web pages and the point-of-contact for each topic. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://ops.fhwa.dot.gov. | |
| National Transportation Operations Coalition Website |
| This website is a compilation of resources provided by the National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC). The Coalition is a partnership among traditional stakeholders, such as transportation professionals, and nontraditional stakeholders, such as public safety agencies. This alliance of national associations, practitioners, and private sector groups allows stakeholders to work collectively to identify barriers and opportunities for improving the management and operations of the nation's transportation system. The site contains the history of the Coalition, current action plan, vision, and mission. The site also contains resource documents that present a number of transportation operations issues and improvement strategies, links to other operations and ITS resources (including electronic forums for transportation operations, and the Talking Operations webcast series), proceedings from Coalition events, and a list of Coalition members and key partner organizations. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.ntoctalks.com. | |
| NTOC Talks E-Newsletter |
| NTOC Talks, a newsletter of the National Transportation Operation Coalition (NTOC), is a repository of up-to-date news, insight, and resources related to ITS deployment. The newsletter contains brief summaries of news articles and is updated every few days. The database-driven newsletter features a search engine that allows users to find relevant articles by topic, category, or date going back to 1998. Every month, all articles posted over the past month are compiled into a newsletter that is sent via e-mail to newsletter subscribers. Readers can also have back issues e-mailed to them using a convenient online form. Subscription to the monthly newsletter is free, and the website features online sign-up. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.ntoctalks.com/icdn/index.php3. | |
| Moving the American Economy: National Strategy to Reduce Congestion Website |
| This website is a compilation of resources related to the U.S. Department of Transportation's Congestion Initiative, a six-part national strategy to reduce congestion on the country's roads, in its airspace and at its intermodal ports. The website contains the current status of U.S. DOT solicitations related to the Congestion Initiative, including those for urban partnership agreements, participation in a value pricing pilot program, and an ITS operational test. The website also contains helpful resources, including documents, presentations and related links. Documents posted on the site include the May 2006 report National Strategy to Reduce Congestion on America's Transportation Network, which outlines the U.S. DOT's six-part congestion reduction plan. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.fightgridlocknow.gov. | |
| Transportation Communication Newsletter |
| Transportation Communications is a free, daily e-mail newsletter which provides news and information related to all aspects of communications in the transportation field, including such topics as public and community relations, ITS, traveler information, outreach, and transportation operations. The newsletter covers all travel modes, including highways, transit, rail, air, and maritime. Now in its eighth year, the newsletter is distributed using Yahoo(R) Groups and has over 5,400 subscribers. Subscribers can use tools available in Yahoo(R) Groups to search back issues. The website has instructions on how to sign up. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://groups.yahoo.com/group/transport-communications. | |
 | Operations/ITS HelpLine |
| The Operations/ITS HelpLine provides reliable, personalized assistance, helping members of the transportation community quickly identify appropriate resources or other technical assistance. The HelpLine functions as a telephone-based gateway to the U.S. DOT National ITS Program, offering callers access to documents, information on the status of research and development programs, and the ability to identify U.S. DOT personnel with the capabilities to provide additional technical assistance. The HelpLine is also the gateway to the ITS Peer-to-Peer Program that provides public sector transportation stakeholders with a convenient way to tap into the growing knowledge base of ITS experience. Through the program, public sector staff can request short-term assistance to address specific technical issues. The program matches callers with the appropriate individual from a pool of more than 100 "peers" – experts in various topic areas of ITS. The program is free and confidential. For more information about the program, access the website address http://www.its.dot.gov/peer/index.htm or call (888) 700-PEER, (888) 700-7337. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Call the HelpLine at (866) 367-7487. | |
 | ITS Library |
| The Electronic Document Library (EDL) contains an electronic copy of all documents produced under the sponsorship of the National ITS Program, as well as contributions from outside sources. Types of documents posted on the website include technical reports, policy reports, presentations, conference proceedings, brochures, and legislation. The library currently contains almost 2,000 documents. Users can search the EDL by using the U.S. DOT search engine or by accessing the browse list (showing the title, publication date, and EDL number of every document, listed alphabetically by title) and using the "Find in Page" function of their Internet browser. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.its.dot.gov/welcome.htm. | |
 | Intelligent Transportation Systems Benefits, Costs, and Lessons Learned: 2005 Update (FHWA-JPO-05-002) (2005) |
| This report is the latest in a biennial series that provides a synthesis of the information collected by U.S. DOT on the impact of ITS projects on the operation of the surface transportation network. The report presents ITS impacts according to program areas within the intelligent infrastructure and intelligent vehicle applications. ITS benefits are classified by performance measures associated with National ITS Program goals, i.e., the improvement of safety, efficiency, mobility, productivity, and energy/environmental impacts. The report also presents unit cost figures for selected ITS deployments, as well as sample system cost information. New in the 2005 edition is a discussion of the ITS Lessons Learned Knowledge Resource, a repository of experience on how to plan, design, deploy, operate, and maintain ITS. Information in the report is drawn from the ITS Benefits and Costs Databases, available online at http://www.benefitcost.its.dot.gov. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: To order a hardcopy, contact the Operations/ITS HelpLine, (866) 367-7487 or itspubs@dot.gov. For the online version, access the following website addresses:
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| Traffic Congestion and Reliability: Trends and Advanced Strategies for Congestion Mitigation (2005) |
| This document is the second in a series of annual reports that provide a snapshot of congestion in the U.S. The report summarizes recent trends in congestion and analyzes the sources of congestion and other unreliable travel. In particular, the report examines travel time and travel time reliability as measures of congestion. The report concludes that available solutions – adding capacity, operating capacity more efficiently, and reducing demand – must be used in concert to achieve realistic results. The 2004 report Traffic Congestion and Reliability: Linking Solutions to Problems is also available. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website addresses:
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