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21st Century Institutions and Partnership Goal and Focus Areas
Goal
21 st Century Institutions and Partnerships: Foster new institutional relationships to enable better and faster use of technologies in transportation
Focus Area
Institutional and policy research to support elimination of implementation barriers and enhance the use of ITS for performance management
Objectives
1. Identify and eliminate institutional barriers that limit the use of ITS technologies in transportation
Metrics
- Nature, cause, extent, and impact of recognized institutional barriers are well defined
- Wherever possible, institutional barriers are mitigated or eliminated
- Laws, regulations, and policies support technical innovation and robust data sharing
Strategies
- Identify and classify institutional barriers related to technical and societal/political issues
- Promulgate effective policies/practices/tools for overcoming institutional barriers
- Share information about legislative and regulatory barriers and how they can be overcome with state and local authorities
- Assist in commercialization of new technologies
- Facilitate joint funding through public-private initiatives
- Aid states and local governments in overcoming real or perceived constraints on their authority to obtain and utilize ITS related data.
- Explore avenues for innovative financing, develop an innovative ITS financing toolkit and educate agencies on how to pursue and establish such arrangements
2. Enhance transportation system performance measurement capabilities
Metrics
- The link between system performance measurement and ITS is well defined
- ITS data effectively and comprehensively supports the measurement of operational performance
Strategies
- Link ITS capabilities with the support of performance measurement related to systems operations and associated definitions and metrics
- Establish the most appropriate ITS applications/processes/procedures (including the use of innovative financing and partnerships) for gathering and analysis of data in support of performance measurement
- Enable benchmarking among public agencies
Federal Role
- Support necessary research that isn’t going to be accomplished elsewhere
- High-risk
- Not part of responsibilities of other Federal Offices
- Knowledge transfer of lessons learned (institution to institution) – e.g. Outreach, clearinghouse, case studies
- Seeding and transfer of technology for commercialization (NGSIM, Weather Maintenance Decision Support Systems, DSRC)
- Help overcome fragmented institutional environment
- ITS Architecture and Standards
- Researching institutional barriers and provide outreach to overcome these
- Convener – part of other roles
- Market awareness
- Information exchange
- Encourage policies through requirements for federal funding
- Provide expertise in ITS policy, institutional issues (help agencies)
- Seeding innovation (eg. Exploratory advanced research program, Urban partnerships)
Not Needed by the Federal Government
- Do not dictate technology solutions
- Do not need to develop technology
- Don’t displace private industry
- Do not unfairly create or restrict markets through our contract choices
- Do not restrict competitive markets
- Do not lock into technologies prematurely
- Do not restrict markets
- Do not restrict innovation and flexibility at the state and local level (often created by unsound regulations)
Please e-mail your comments to JPO.Director@dot.gov
Updated
April 23, 2008 11:33 AM
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