摘要: |
The Multi-jurisdictional Mayday (MJM) Group has succeeded in linking representatives from four state Departments of Transportation, the I-95 Corridor Coalition's Mayday study group and the Dutch Ministry of Transport, Rijkswaterstaat. Each of these entities represent geographically disbursed ITS Mayday projects. Each has been pursuing different technological solutions to the same opportunity - the opportunity to increase the personal safety and security of travelers by reducing the time it takes appropriately trained and equipped emergency service providers to reach them after their involvement in an incident or accident. To date, MJM has succeeded in providing an impressive degree of integration of four separate Mayday projects, each of which involves different public and private partners and each of which started at different times, allowing those less mature projects to benefit from the experience of those that had come before. MJM has also succeeded in involving private sector Mayday service and product providers, representatives of local law enforcement agencies, ambulance services hospital trauma center personnel, and other public sector Mayday projects in its deliberations. In so doing, MJM has surfaced a number of institutional barriers, concerns and conflicting public and private opinions and desires regarding Mayday standards, features, functional requirements, protocols and architecture. MJM is committed to working to address those potential barriers and concerns so as to ease the ultimate deployment of a fully integrated, nationwide system (or systems) of Mayday products and services. This paper describes the evolution of MJM, lists the results of its efforts, and showcases how MJM has added value to several ITS projects that are similar in nature but which are geographically disbursed. |