| Featured Resources |
 | ITS Joint Program Office Website |
| This site is the official website of the U.S. Department of Transportation's ITS Joint Program Office. The website links to pages relating to all aspects of the National ITS Program, including ten major ITS initiatives. Sections of the website cover special topics, such as architecture, standards, and telecommunications. Technical assistance is available from the ITS Benefits Database, ITS Costs Database, ITS Lessons Learned Knowledge Resource (LLKR), and ITS Deployment Statistics Database, as well as the ITS Professional Capacity Building (PCB) Program. The website also includes a list of contacts (in the area titled "About ITS") and related links, including other Federal agencies, associations, working groups and universities. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.its.dot.gov. | |
| IntelliDriveSM Coalition Website |
| This website is the official site of the IntelliDriveSM Coalition, formerly known as the Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) Coalition. IntelliDriveSM combines advanced wireless communications and on-board sensors to enable to identify and warn drivers about roadway safety hazards. This website contains an overview of the program, a library of key program documents, a list of IntelliDriveSM Coalition members, a database of U.S. and international IntelliDriveSM-related projects, and related links. Through the website, users can sign up to receive e-mail updates about the program. A companion website hosted by the U.S. DOT (http://www.its.dot.gov/intellidrive/index.htm) presents an overview of the program, work plan, list of current activities and U.S. DOT points-of-contact. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.intellidriveusa.org. | |
| National Transportation Operations Coalition Website |
| This website is a compilation of resources provided by the National Transportation Operations Coalition (NTOC). The Coalition is a partnership among traditional stakeholders, such as transportation professionals, and nontraditional stakeholders, such as public safety agencies. This alliance of national associations, practitioners, and private sector groups allows stakeholders to work collectively to identify barriers and opportunities for improving the management and operations of the nation's transportation system. The site contains the history of the Coalition, current action plan, vision, and mission. The site also contains resource documents that present a number of transportation operations issues and improvement strategies, links to other operations and ITS resources (including electronic forums for transportation operations, and the Talking Operations webcast series), proceedings from Coalition events, and a list of Coalition members and key partner organizations. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.ntoctalks.com. | |
| NTOC Talks E-Newsletter |
| NTOC Talks, a newsletter of the National Transportation Operation Coalition (NTOC), is a repository of up-to-date news, insight, and resources related to ITS deployment. The newsletter contains brief summaries of news articles and is updated every few days. The database-driven newsletter features a search engine that allows users to find relevant articles by topic, category, or date going back to 1998. Every month, all articles posted over the past month are compiled into a newsletter that is sent via e-mail to newsletter subscribers. Readers can also have back issues e-mailed to them using a convenient online form. Subscription to the monthly newsletter is free, and the website features online sign-up. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.ntoctalks.com/icdn/index.php3. | |
| University Transportation Research Centers (UTC) Website |
| This site is the official website of the University Transportation Centers (UTC) program. The UTC program was created in 1987 to advance state-of-the-art in transportation research and develop the next generation of transportation professionals. Currently, about 60 universities have been designated as participants in the program, each of which has a defined research theme. With funding from the UTC program, these universities offer multidisciplinary coursework, conduct basic and applied research, and make the research results available to potential users through technology transfer activities. The website presents the history, vision, mission and goals of the UTC program, as well as lists of participating universities, their research themes, contact information, and Web links. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://utc.dot.gov. | |
 | Operations/ITS HelpLine |
| The Operations/ITS HelpLine provides reliable, personalized assistance, helping members of the transportation community quickly identify appropriate resources or other technical assistance. The HelpLine functions as a telephone-based gateway to the U.S. DOT National ITS Program, offering callers access to documents, information on the status of research and development programs, and the ability to identify U.S. DOT personnel with the capabilities to provide additional technical assistance. The HelpLine is also the gateway to the ITS Peer-to-Peer Program that provides public sector transportation stakeholders with a convenient way to tap into the growing knowledge base of ITS experience. Through the program, public sector staff can request short-term assistance to address specific technical issues. The program matches callers with the appropriate individual from a pool of more than 100 "peers" – experts in various topic areas of ITS. The program is free and confidential. For more information about the program, access the website address http://www.its.dot.gov/peer/index.htm or call (888) 700-PEER, (888) 700-7337. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Call the HelpLine at (866) 367-7487. | |
 | ITS Library |
| The ITS Library is a repository of documents produced under the sponsorship of the National ITS Program, as well as contributions from outside sources. Types of documents posted on the website include technical reports, policy reports, presentations, conference proceedings, brochures, and legislation. Users can search the library's 2,000 documents by document number, title, publication number, author, or state, as well as conduct a full text search of selected documents. The ITS Library provides a more focused search of ITS-related material than the larger National Transportation Library (NTL). Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://www.its.dot.gov/library.htm. | |
| National Transportation Library |
| The National Transportation Library (NTL) is a repository of materials – documents, statistics, current research activities, technical terms, and legislative and regulatory resources – accessible using several interactive search tools. The NTL Integrated Search searches both NTL's own catalog as well as the Transportation Research Board's Transportation Research Information Service (TRIS Online). The NTL website links to the departments of transportation in all 50 states, as well as dozens of transportation libraries, trade unions and professional associations. NTL's extensive legislative and regulatory resources include Federal Register notices, the Code of Federal Regulations (CFR), the U.S. Code (USC), U.S. DOT Docket Management System, U.S. DOT Office of the Inspector General (OIG) reports, and the THOMAS Federal Legislative Information system. Technical support is available from the NTL librarians by e-mail or by telephone during business hours Eastern Time. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the website address http://ntl.bts.gov. | |
 | Guidance for Implementation of the AASHTO Strategic Highway Safety Plan (NCHRP# 500 Volumes 1 through 23) (2003-2009) |
| In 1998, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO) approved its Strategic Highway Safety Plan, which was developed by the AASHTO Standing Committee for Highway Traffic Safety with the assistance of the FHWA, NHTSA and the Transportation Research Board (TRB) Committee on Transportation Safety Management. (The plan was updated in 2004 to use fatal crash data from 2003 and discuss the Lead States program and levels of funding that would be needed to implement the plan.) The plan's goal is to cut the number of highway deaths almost in half to 7,000 annually. The plan outlines almost two dozen key emphasis areas that touch upon all aspects of highway safety, including aggressive driving, older drivers, signalized intersections and work zones. An implementation guidance report has been developed for each of the 23 key emphasis areas. Cost: $20-$57 for the hardcopy versions; the online versions are free. To Access This Resource: Accesses the website addresses:
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| Intelligent Transportation Systems Benefits, Costs, Deployment, and Lessons Learned: 2008 Update (FHWA-JPO-08-032) (2008) |
| Many questions must be asked when considering investment in intelligent transportation systems, such as "What are the benefits?", "What are the costs?", "Who else is doing this?", and "What are the lessons learned?" For the past several years, the ITS Joint Program Office has commissioned researchers to conduct scans across the country and around the world to answer these questions by identifying the documented benefits, costs, extent of deployment, and lessons learned about ITS. These researchers have compiled their findings in several online databases known as the ITS Knowledge Resources (http://www.itsoverview.its.dot.gov). The 2008 Update is the latest in a decade-long series of encyclopedic reports that synthesize the information contained in the ITS Knowledge Resources. Cost: Free To Access This Resource: To order a hardcopy, contact the Operations/ITS HelpLine, (866) 367-7487 or itspubs@dot.gov. For the online version, access the following website addresses:
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| ITS Research Results: ITS Program Plan 2008 (FHWA-JPO-09-018) (2008) |
| This document is the latest in a series of reports that document the history, current status, and future plans for the National ITS Program. Last updated in 2006, the 2008 edition examines the history, status and progress of the National ITS Program and summarizes the research findings of the nine Major ITS Initiatives. This report also reviews the progress, accomplishments and changes to the National ITS Program since publication of the previous edition. Finally, this examines how past accomplishments and future plans have met and will meet requirements of the Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU). Cost: Free To Access This Resource: Access the following website address http://www.its.dot.gov/its_plan. | |