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Intelligent Transportation Systems Benefits, Costs, Deployment, and Lessons Learned Desk Reference: 2011 Update - Your comprehensive source for informed decision making - with over 15 years of information about ITS deployments.

Benefits measure the effects of ITS on transportation operations according to the six goals identified by the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT): safety, mobility, efficiency, productivity, energy and environmental impacts, and customer satisfaction.

ITS Benefit of the Month - January 2012  Archives

Use of Navigation systems combined with traveler information can reduce Vehicle Miles Traveled by 16 percent, and drivers can save up to 30 percent in mileage when searching for a parking space.  Read more...

The Costs database is a national resource of cost estimates for ITS deployments. Use Costs to develop project cost estimates during the planning or preliminary design phase, and for policy studies and cost-benefit analyses. Both capital and operating and maintenance costs are provided where possible.

Lessons Learned capture the real life experience of practitioners in their planning, deployment, operations, maintenance, and evaluation of ITS. It is a reflection on what was done right, what one would do differently, and how one could be more effective in the future.

ITS Lesson of the Month - January 2012  Archives

When developing transit signal priority (TSP) systems, consider using traffic simulation models as a cost-effective means of comparing the impacts of different TSP strategies on transit and non-transit vehicle travel time.
Guidance emerging from a TSP literature review and from an evaluation of TSP in Burlington, Vermont.  Read more...

Deployment Statistics provide measures of the level of ITS deployment in 108 metropolitan areas and the 50 states. Results were drawn from the national ITS Deployment Tracking surveys conducted in 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Click on an ITS application area to see the survey results.

The ITS Applications Overview integrates the Knowledge Resource databases, providing access to a broad selection of information tied to a particular application area.

Click on an application area to view what knowledge is available about that ITS application. Users can obtain information on any one of more than 170 ITS application areas, grouped into 16 major areas.