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Agenda
  • Recent Activities
  • MAP-21 Overview
  • International Update
  • ITS Strategic Planning
  • Committee Discussion
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Recent Activities
  • Departure of former ITS Director, Shelley Row on October 1, 2012
    • JPO Leadership Team rotation planned until replacement selected
    • ITS Advisory Committee activities to continue under the leadership of Valerie Briggs and Stephen Glasscock
    • Safety Pilot Launch, Ann Arbor Michigan, August 21
    • Senior DOT Leadership, elected officials, and media present
    • Data collection underway
    • Connected Vehicle Public Meeting, Chicago September 25-27
    • Positive stakeholder engagement
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Recent Activities (continued)
    • NTIA studying risks associated with allowing frequency sharing within DSRC 5.9 GHz frequency band
      • DOT provided comments to draft report
      • Final report to be released late this month
      • Study effort will continue over the following year

    •  Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture (CVRIA) development begun
      • Supports connected vehicle standardization plan, policy work
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MAP-21
    • Authorizes program at $100M annual budget level
    • Two-year legislation (FY13-14)
    • Many provisions familiar from SAFETEA-LU legislation:
      • Continues ITS Advisory Committee
      • Continues requirement for a Report to Congress addressing ITS Advisory Committee recommendations
    • New provisions:
      • 2015 Report to Congress on Path to DSRC Implementation
      • Encourages ITS deployment incentives and grant funding
      • Emphasizes ITS adoption “to improve performance of the NHS”
    • Removed provisions:
      • Multi-State Corridor Operations and Management set aside
      • Road Weather set aside



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International Update
  • Recently signed ITS Memorandum of Cooperation with Republic of Korea/Ministry of Land, Transport and Maritime Affairs
  • Research Cooperation meeting with Japan this month
  • International ITS standards harmonization proceeding
    • Harmonization Task Group 1 & 3 (security/management protocols) complete
    • Signal Phase and Timing (SPaT) and further message sets under discussion
    • Further European, Japanese, Korean cooperation envisioned
  • Joint EU-US showcase at ITS World Congress in Vienna, Austria


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ITS Strategic Planning Efforts
  • Recently completed an update to the 2010-2014 Strategic Plan
    • Continues progress on wireless connectivity theme
    • Formalizes the 2013 and 2014 V2V agency decisions
    • Elaborates on ITS research details and progress
  • Initiating new 2014 - 2019 Strategic Planning Effort
    • Required under MAP-21
    • Offers an opportunity to pursue new technological advancements
    • DOT will engage in a formal stakeholder outreach process to collect ideas and input into the new strategic direction over the next year
    • Plan is to publish a new Strategic Plan document in 2014



  • ITS Advisory Committee input will be essential to the success of this effort!
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Committee Discussion