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原文传递 National ITS Program Emphasis: An Essay on ITS Initiatives Requiring National Leadership and Vision

题名：	National ITS Program Emphasis: An Essay on ITS Initiatives Requiring National Leadership and Vision
作者：	Stanley E. Young; Kansas State University
关键词：	National ITS Program; ITS Initiatives Requiring; Leadership and Vision
摘要：	Several initiatives on the national Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) agenda will succeed only with strong central leadership to provide vision and coordination. Such programs typically offer tremendous benefits to the traveling public but for various reasons due to either to economic, legal, or social issues do not attract private capital to drive development and implementation. In contrast many items on the national agenda will succeed simply due to the promised economic benefits and/or cost reduction. For example, implementations of automatic toll collection technology have flourished in recent years because of the direct economic benefits realized by toll authorities. The reduction in required manpower and increased capacity of existing toll stations are both immediate and tangible. Automated toll collection also delivers substantial time savings for travelers and expanded capacity of existing toll facilities, lessening the need for new facilities to be built. However, it is doubtful that automated toll collection technology would have proliferated as quickly without the initial direct economic benefits to the toll authority. In other ITS initiatives the immediate and direct cost savings and economic benefits are not substantial enough to motivate any given institution to take the risk needed to drive implementation even though the benefits to the traveling public may be tremendous. Leadership and continued emphasis from the national ITS program are critical in such areas to help mitigate risk and help these programs succeed. If I were in charge of the national ITS program I would emphasize three particular areas due to the reasons stated above. The three areas are: continued development of a national rural crash notification system (frequently referred to as a Mayday system), continued emphasis and funding of Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS) in order to manage our nation’s freeway and interstate system in and about metropolitan areas, and continued development and research on Automated Vehicle Control Systems (AVCS) to eventually deliver on the ITS promise of additional capacity within the existing highway infrastructure.
总页数：	ITS America. Meeting (11th : 2001 : Miami Beach, Fla.). ITS connecting the Americas : ITS 2001 : conference proceedings. 2001. pp8
报告类型：	科技报告