TITLE: Intelligent Transportation Systems

CIS-NO: 2003-H751-34  
SOURCE: Committee on Transportation and Infrastructure. House  
DOC-TYPE: Hearing Retrieve the full text of testimony  
DATE: Sept. 10, 2002  
LENGTH: v+130 p.  
CONG-SESS: 107-2  
ITEM-NO: 1024-A-01; 1024-B-01  
SUDOC: Y4.T68/2:107-94  


SUMMARY:
Committee Serial No. 107-94. Hearing before the Subcom on Highways and Transportation to review the development and deployment of intelligent transportation systems (ITS) using innovative technologies to alleviate traffic congestion and improve highway safety.
 
Hearing was held in light of upcoming reauthorization of surface transportation programs under the Transportation Equity Act for the 21st Century (TEA-21), including provisions authorizing funding for ITS R&D and deployment of ITS technology.
 
Supplementary material (p. 36-130) includes witnesses' written statements, submitted statements, and correspondence.

CONTENT-NOTATION: Intelligent transportation systems dev and deployment review

DESCRIPTORS:  
   SUBCOM ON HIGHWAYS AND TRANSPORTATION. HOUSE;  INFORMATION SERVICES AND SYSTEMS; MOTOR TRANSPORTATION; TECHNOLOGICAL INNOVATIONS; TRAFFIC ACCIDENTS AND SAFETY; TRAFFIC ENGINEERING; TRANSPORTATION EQUITY ACT FOR THE 21ST CENTURY; TRANSPORTATION RESEARCH

03-H751-34 TESTIMONY NO: 1     Sept. 10, 2002 p. 3-20, 55-74, 93-114
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   WALTON, C. MICHAEL (Chair, Department of Civil Engineering, University of Texas, Austin; representing Intelligent Transportation Society)
   MORALES, JEFF (Director, California Department of Transportation)
   SCHMIER, KENNETH J. (CEO and Chairman, NextBus Information Systems)
   LOCKWOOD, STEPHEN C. (Principal Consultant, pb Consult)
   THOMPSON, AVES D. (Director, Division of Measurement Standards and Commercial Vehicle Enforcement, Alaska Department of Transportation)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Perspectives on ITS technology use, including NextBus service providing vehicle arrival information to bus passengers; issues and recommendations relating to TEA-21 reauthorization; description of ITS technology use in represented States.
 
INSERTION:
   -- Lockwood, S. C., "Systems Management and Operations in the 21st Century (As Seen from 2025)" Transportation Quarterly, Summer 2002 (p. 59-70).
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Intelligent transportation systems dev and deployment review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; CALIFORNIA DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION; INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SOCIETY; MOTOR BUS LINES; NEXTBUS INFORMATION SYSTEMS
 
 
03-H751-34 TESTIMONY NO: 2     Sept. 10, 2002 p. 20-53, 79-92, 115-123
 
WITNESSES (and witness notations):
   EDELMAN, MATTHEW (Executive Director, Transportation Operations Coordinating Committee (TRANSCOM))
   JANNETTA, DAVID L. (President, Mobility Technologies, Inc)
   D'ESCOTO, MIGUEL (Director, Chicago Department of Transportation)
   WOLFE, CHRIS (President, Wireless Business Solutions, QUALCOMM, Inc)
   SCAER, ROBERT M. (President, GeoDecisions)
 
STATEMENTS AND DISCUSSION:
   Briefing on regional transportation management in the NYC metropolitan area; overview of and recommendations relating to intelligent transportation infrastructure program established under TEA-21; perspectives on the use of mobile wireless communications in the trucking industry; description of Internet-based intelligent road and rail information service technology.
 
CONTENT NOTATION:
   Intelligent transportation systems dev and deployment review
 
TESTIMONY DESCRIPTORS:
   GEODECISIONS; INTERNET; MOBILITY TECHNOLOGIES, INC.; NEW YORK CITY; QUALCOMM, INC.; TELECOMMUNICATION; TRUCKS AND TRUCKING INDUSTRY

LOAD-DATE: August 29, 2003