Establishing an intelligent transportation systems (ITS) lab at LTRC : tech summary.

682161221Tech summary.PDFTech ReportFHWA/LA.08/456Intelligent transportation systemsData processingTraffic surveysTraffic surveillanceLouisianaLouisiana Transportation Research CenterIshak, Sherif S.Louisiana State University (Baton Rouge, La.). Dept. of Civil and Environmental EngineeringNTL-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS-INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMSNTL-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLS-OPERATIONS AND TRAFFIC CONTROLSNTL-PLANNING AND POLICY-PLANNING AND POLICYUS Transportation CollectionThe U.S. Department of Transportation (DOT) depicts Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) as an integrated systemto improve safety and mobility and enhance productivity through the use of advanced information and communicationtechnologies. Traffi c surveillance and monitoring systems are key components of existing architectures of ITS, whichprimarily rely on an array of information and communication technologies. In the state of Louisiana, the ITS programhas been rapidly evolving in the past few years. Major ITS instrumentation eff orts have been made on highways in orderto allow state transportation authorities to better serve the traveling public. In order to achieve this goal, there is apressing need to use current and future ITS data to improve various operational and management functions at the traffi cmanagement center and other state agencies. This requires state agencies to collect, store, and analyze as much ITSdata as possible to maximize the effi ciency of existing transportation networks. This has raised a need for a permanentfacility to house and process ITS data collected from remote locations within the state of Louisiana. Such a facility isenvisioned to serve academics, researchers, and practitioners in diff erent capacities as well as lend itself as a tool toinspire interest in the fi eld of advanced traffi c management systems among students from within and outside Louisiana