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U.S.
Department of Transportation
20-Year Look Back: ISTEA
Highlights
§New innovative technology research
for transportation
§Organize & categorize functional
areas – establish a common language
§Find out what works and what does
not work – identify barriers to deployment
§Operational Tests
§Deployment
ISTEA was the era of:
□Field Operational Tests – deployment in an operational setting, bridge between R&D and Deployment – and evaluate deployment impacts
□Priority Corridor Program
□Early Deployment Planning Studies – planning
for deployment at the local level
□Architecture Development Initiated (1994) –
private sector firms partnering to develop
□CVISN
Initiated
□Metropolitan Model Deployment Initiatives
□Standards Program
starts up (1996) with a list
of critical interfaces
□Sec. Peña Operation
Timesaver (1996) – 75 metro areas (expanded to 78)
□Deployment Tracking
– Definition of metrics
for evaluation
□AHS Demonstration
– Possibilities of vehicle-infrastructure
cooperation