Accelerating ITS Deployment Workshop at ITS America Annual Meeting

June 12, 2016, San Jose, CA

Talking vehicles, self-driving vehicles, vehicles that interact with the infrastructure – the future is here. The ITS Joint Program Office's Accelerating ITS Deployment workshop at the 2016 ITS America Annual Meeting focused on accelerating deployment of advanced ITS such as connected vehicles and smart cities. Speakers highlighted the USDOT's ITS program, discussed the "nuts and bolts" of connected vehicles, and provided an overview of ITS funding and the Smart City Challenge and Fixing America's Surface Transportation Act.

ITS Deployment Day Overview

• ITS Joint Program Office Director Introduction 

High-level Connected Vehicle (CV) Summary

• Key Policy Challenges (Security, Privacy, Spectrum) 
• Vehicle-to-Vehicle (V2V) Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) 
• Vehicle-to-Infrastructure (V2I) Guidance and V2I Deployment Coalition 
• How CV Technology Enables Automated Vehicles 

“Nuts and Bolts” of Connected Vehicles

• Decade of Research Highlights
  • Transit Connected Vehicle (CV) Projects Update 
  • Lessons Learned from CV Pilots 
  • Major Stakeholders: CAMP, VIC, OEMs and device makers 
  • Existing & Affiliated Test Beds and Future Pilots 
• ITS Foundation and Technology 
• Standards for CV Deployment 
• Security 
• Certification 
• ITS Data Program 

Funding for ITS

• CV Pilots Update 
• Smart Cities Challenge 
• Wrap-up, Fast Act and ITS Planning Discussion 

Advancing the future ITS environment requires continuous dialogue between internal and external stakeholders and engagement in the planning process. Opportunities for stakeholder involvement will increase in the years ahead, through the V2I Deployment Coalition, Test Beds and Pilots, ITS JPO Professional Capacity Building (PCB) events, and knowledge and technology transfer of results from the CV Pilots and Smart City Challenge deployments.

Contact

Kevin Gay
Chief, Policy, Architecture, & Knowledge Transfer
ITS Joint Program Office
(202) 493-0259
Kevin.Gay@dot.gov

Elina Zlotchenko
Program Manager
ITS Joint Program Office
(202) 366-1697
Elina.Zlotchenko@dot.gov

Additional Resources

• ITS JPO Fact Sheets
• What Public Officials Need to Know About Connected Vehicles
• Planning for the Future of Connected Transportation
• How Connected Vehicles Work
• Connected Vehicle Basics
• ITS Courses and Training
• Vehicle to Infrastructure Guidance
• ITS Standards Program
• Enterprise Data
• Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program
• Smart City Challenge
• Open Source Application Development Portal