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•U.S. Department of Transportation
•ITS Joint Program Office
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Program Categories
§Connected Vehicles program category will be primarily
focused on adoption and eventual deployment of the system.
§Automation research will focus on topics related to
automated road-vehicle systems and related technologies
that transfer some amount of vehicle control from the driver
to the vehicle.
§Emerging Capabilities will focus on future generations of
transportation systems.
§Enterprise Data programs will continue existing efforts in
operational data capture from stationary sensors, mobile
devices, and connected vehicles, and expand into research
activities involving the development of mechanisms for housing, sharing, analyzing, transporting, and applying those data for improved safety and mobility across all modes of travel.
§Interoperability focuses on how to ensure effective connectivity among devices and systems.
§Accelerating Deployment advances the work from adoption to wider scale deployment in coordination with several other DOT agencies. 
The ITS Strategic Plan includes program categories to provide the necessary structure for research, development, and adoption of ITS technologies. These categories reflect modal and external stakeholder input about the areas where attention, focus, and resources should be devoted.