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原文传递 Acadia National Park ITS Field Operational Test: Evaluation Plan

题名：	Acadia National Park ITS Field Operational Test: Evaluation Plan
关键词：	Rural transportation; Public transportation management; National parks; Field tests; Traffic management; Tourists; Traffic congestion; Program evaluation; Information systems; National resources management; Tourism; Recreation; Implementation; Maine; Surveys
摘要：	This document presents the plan for evaluating technologies known as Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) that will be implemented in Acadia National Park and Mount Desert Island, Maine. Acadia National Park was selected as a site for an ITS Field Operational Test (FOT) through collaboration of the U.S. Department of Interior and the U.S. Department of Transportation. As in Acadia, many National Parks are experiencing severe transportation problems, which frustrates their dual mission of preserving natural and cultural resources while providing visitors with a meaningful and pleasant experience. Intelligent Transportation Systems may help provide solutions to some of these problems. Battelle Memorial Institute was selected by U.S. DOT to conduct an independent evaluation of the efficacy of the ITS technologies at Acadia and to document the lessons offered by the FOT so that other National Parks or locations with similar transportation problems can learn from the experience. The plan contained in this report represents the second stage of a multi-stage process for conducting the evaluation. Based on the results of a strategy workshop at Acadia National Park on May 24, 2000 with representatives of stakeholder organizations, the evaluation plan was guided by priorities in six evaluation goal areas: customer satisfaction, mobility, safety, efficiency, productivity and economic vitality, and environment and energy. Hypotheses are presented on the expected impact from ITS in each goal area, and measurements are identified that can be used to test those hypotheses. Several approaches to collecting data will be used, including surveys, personal interviews, focus groups, system data from the ITS components, agency records, and direct observation.
总页数：	pp29
报告类型：	科技报告