ITS connects users across platforms, raising institutional issues. (Courtesy of the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office)

Sponsor

Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office

Project Highlights

• Planning to surmount institutional obstacles to widespread ITS adoption
• Synthesis of technology and policy analysis

Project Point of Contact

Suzanne Sloan
617.494.3282
suzanne.sloan@dot.gov

Project Overview

The Volpe Center is supporting the US DOT's Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office in the development of standards and policies to allow fast and secure communication across multiple platforms.

The ITS Program is pursuing an aggressive research agenda into the transformative capabilities of wireless communications to significantly improve safety, mobility, and environmental performance of transportation. The program's goal is to research and develop these new technologies with the end goal of adoption and deployment. It is recognized that the most significant challenges may be policy and institutionally related. The ITS Policy research work draws from the Center's capabilities in policy analysis – being able to identify the policy and institutional issues and conduct appropriate analysis to develop policy options. Analytical capabilities include performing: cost-benefit, cost-effectiveness, trade-off, comparative, modeling, and other forms of analysis.