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Developing and Maintaining Intra- and Inter-Agency Partnerships Can Help Agencies Understand Contacts, Available Resources, and Various Data and Tools Needed to Support Prediction and Response Efforts During a Flood Event.
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Data and models can be useful to predict and prepare for flood events, especially when exceptional conditions occur, and…
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04/30/2021
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Vehicle Emergency Response (PS05),
Incident Scene Pre-Arrival Staging Guidance for Emergency Responders (PS06),
Disaster Response and Recovery (PS12),
Weather Data Collection (WX01),
Spot Weather Impact Warning (WX03)
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Develop partnerships with state and local agencies to help successfully implement intelligent transportation systems (ITS) in rural transit.
Because of limited funding, rural transit agencies are not using new technology to the extent that their larger urban counterparts are; in fact, very few rural transit agencies have plans to…
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Date Posted
02/27/2007
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Use transit intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies in rural areas to save agency staff time and create a more user-friendly system.
A key requirement for many rural transit agencies is reducing the time it takes to schedule trips and streamline the process of planning trips. Manual scheduling and planning of trips requires a…
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Date Posted
02/27/2007
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Transit Traveler Information (PT08),
Transit Pedestrian Indication (PT11),
Transit Vehicle at Station/Stop Warnings (PT12),
Transit Vehicle Tracking (PT01),
Transit Fleet Management (PT06),
Transit Fixed-Route Operations (PT02),
Transit Passenger Counting (PT07)
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Integrate with the state and National Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Architecture and develop systems using open standards and established guidelines.
Communications and interoperability between agencies becomes much easier if all the agencies in one state have the same system or equipment. This permits information to flow between those agencies in…
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Date Posted
02/27/2007
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An Optimization-based Algorithm Can Reduce Deadhead Distance by 13.2 Percent for Winter Road Maintenance Operations in Northwest Iowa.
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Weather data was collected for this study, specifically daily snowfall and daily snow depth. In addition to weather, operational data of each maintenance truck was collected, including…
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Date Posted
03/30/2021
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Iowa DOT estimates that AV adoption could increase freeway lane capacity up to 26 percent on I-80.
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At a 85 percent AV adoption rate, the capacity of a single freeway lane was projected to raise by 26 percent, to 3,000 vehicles per hour. Additionally, the demand-to-capacity ratio was…
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Date Posted
09/12/2018
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Eco-Lanes Management (ST07),
Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (VS14),
Infrastructure Enhanced Cooperative Adaptive Cruise Control (VS15),
Automated Vehicle Operations (VS16)
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INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS JOINT PROGRAM OFFICE
1200 New Jersey Avenue, SE
Washington, DC 20590
