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原文传递 Northern Virginia’s Planning Path to the Development of a Regional VDOT NOVA Centric ITS Architecture

题名：	Northern Virginia’s Planning Path to the Development of a Regional VDOT NOVA Centric ITS Architecture
作者：	Tzung-Wen (Amy) Tang
关键词：	Northern Virginia; Path; VDOT NOVA Centric ITS; Regional
摘要：	The Virginia Department of Transportation (VDOT) divided the Commonwealth geographically into nine districts under the direction of the Central Office located in Richmond, Virginia. The Northern Virginia District, known as NOVA, located within the Metropolitan Washington area, abuts the Potomac River and the District of Columbia to the northeast, the Blue Ridge Mountains to the west, and the Quantico Marine Corps Base to the south. The VDOT Smart Travel Program unifies the ITS applications of all transportation modes and levels of government under one umbrella concept – Smart Travel. The NOVA Smart Travel Program planning process anticipates future transportation service needs, including the geographic and functional needs, and envisions complete Smart Travel systems to meet those needs. It directly addresses the need for planning and coordination in system development, and also provides a solid foundation for the development of a VDOT centric Northern Virginia ITS architecture. While a Metropolitan Washington regional ITS architecture and Maryland Statewide ITS architecture are undertaken at the same time, it provides an unique opportunity for three architecture teams to work cooperatively in producing architectures in a consistent manner. Due to the development of the Metropolitan Washington regional ITS architecture that will address regional stakeholders’ interconnects, VDOT could therefore focus on a VDOT NOVA Centric ITS architecture development. This paper is constructed in two sections, first it illustrates the NOVA Smart Travel program plan development process and methodology that provides the first step toward the development of the architecture and secondly it describes the avenue that VDOT will adopt in developing a VDOT NOVA centric architecture. The architecture development includes three major tasks – architecture development, a center-to-center communication plan recommendation, and outreach. Three tasks are headed by three consulting teams under VDOT’s direction and management while coordinating with two aforementioned regional ITS architecture development efforts. Due to the complexity of the project, a strong management is a necessity; therefore this paper also briefly describes the project management technique that the team adopted. The development of such an architecture is a result-oriented process. This architecture would be used to guide Smart Travel infrastructure and integration deployment, identify Smart Travel deployment priorities, define project architecture flows and subsystems, generate annual funding program, and track Smart Travel deployment progress systematically.
总页数：	ITS America. Meeting (11th : 2001 : Miami Beach, Fla.). ITS connecting the Americas : ITS 2001 : conference proceedings. 2001. pp12
报告类型：	科技报告