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ITS Community College Workshop #1
September 20-21, 2017 | ITS America Headquarters in Washington, D.C.

Day 1 Presentation | September 20, 2017

Overview and Opportunities | Transportation Systems

Presenter: Glenn Havinovinski
Presenter’s Org: Iteris

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Slide 1: Overview and Opportunities | Transportation Systems

U.S. DOT - ITS Community College
September 2017

[This slide contains a strip of four images: (1) a photo of a person standing in a field using a tablet computer; (2) a Doppler weather map of the Ohio-Virginia area; (3) a photo of a man in a Transportation Management Center (TMC); and (4) a photo of bicyclists riding along a city street.]

Slide 2: Who is Iteris?

Transportation: Making roads safer and travel more efficient.

  • Leader in transportation informatics
  • $90+ M annual revenue
  • 425 employees
  • Over 12,000 customers
  • NYSE: ITI

Safe roads. Sustainable systems. Smart decisions.
Iteris is leading the world in applied informatics—turning big data into smart insights for transportation. By using machine learning to extract the information engineers and data scientists need to solve complex problems, we’re making our roads safer and enhancing mobility. Building better communities today means we’re creating a better world tomorrow.

[This slide contains an aerial photo of a busy city intersection with vehicles traveling through the intersection and pedestrians using a crosswalk.]

Slide 3: Iteris Smart Transportation Solutions

[This slide contains a flowchart of the analytics offered by Iteris: Iteris Sensors and Third Party Sources are inputs to Iteris Software Analytics and Iteris Consulting Services which result in Informatics: Optimize Routes, Reduce Accidents/Incidents, Reduce Congestion, Reduce Carbon Emission, Monitor Commercial Vehicle Compliance, and Optimize Road Maintenance.]

Slide 4: Iteris Smart Transportation Ecosystem

  • Markets
    • Local Agencies
    • Regional
    • State
    • Federal/National
    • International
    • Commercial
  • Partners
    • Distribution Partners
    • Construction Partners
    • Communication Service Providers
    • System Integrators
    • Hardware Suppliers
    • Data Suppliers

Slide 5: Pioneering Transformative Technologies for Over 2 Decades

  • 1990s
    • 1st National Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) Architecture
    • 1st Statewide 511 system
    • 1st 511 system with weather overlay
  • 2000s
    • 1st Personalized Traveler Information System deployed
    • 1st h.264 video streaming
  • 2010
    • 1st Wide Dynamic Range camera
  • 2011
    • 1st Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture (CVRIA)
  • 2012
    • 1st Hybrid Video/Radar detection system (patent)
  • 2013
    • 1st Advanced Weather/Pavement Treatment Advisor - ClearPath®
  • 2015
    • 1st Bicycle detection (patent)
  • 2016
    • 1st Integrated Pedestrian Counting (patent)
  • 2017
    • 1st Comprehensive SaaS Traffic Analytics system (patent)

[This slide contains a timeline of Transformative Technology milestones from the 1990s to 2020, which are listed above. The timeline includes the Smart Cities logo, which is a globe with city buildings around its perimeter.]

Slide 6: Key Investment Activities Involving ITS

  • Integrated Corridor Management (ICM)
  • Preparing for Connected and Autonomous Vehicles (CAV)
  • Transportation System Management and Operations (TSMO)
  • Road Pricing Solutions/Managed Lanes (ML)
  • Traveler Information and Data Sharing

[This slide contains two images: (1) a photo of a yellow “Share the Road” yield sign displaying a car and a bicyclist side by side, and (2) a photo of vehicles traveling a major highway through a city with tall buildings on both sides and in the distance.]

Slide 7: Making the Connection for Smarter Mobility

[This slide contains a header with an image as a background: a photo of a city intersection at night. It also contains six digitally-enhanced, labeled images: (1) Traveler Information: a photo of a highway marked with Google map markers containing speed limit, emergency vehicles, and transit vehicles icons; (2) Connected/Autonomous Vehicles: an aerial photo of a section of a city with four icons (auto, bus, transit, and motorcycle) connected via a grid above the city; (3) ITS & Engineering: a close-up photo of a green traffic light with blurred vehicle headlights in the background; (4) Goods Movement: a photo of a freight truck; (5) Integration/Operations/Maintenance: a photo of a man working on a computer server in a server farm room; and (6) Mobility & Analytics: a blurred photo of a city street with 0s and 1s superimposed over it.]

Slide 8: Traveler Information

  • Design/operation of fourteen 511 systems across the US
    • Mobile and web apps including live traffic data, advisories and video
    • Interactive voice response
    • Multimodal real-time corridor information (example: I-95, No. Virginia)
    • Crowd-sourcing data (including cooperative agreements with Waze and other vendors in several states)
    • Welcome center and public access points

[This slide contains a header with a collage of two images as a background: (1) a photo of a highway marked with Google map markers containing speed limit, emergency vehicles, and transit vehicles icons, and (2) a smartphone displaying a map.]

Slide 9: Connected/Autonomous Vehicles

  • Development of U.S. DOT’s Connected Vehicle Reference Implementation Architecture and integration into National ITS Architecture, now known as ARC-IT
  • Development and maintenance of vehicle-to-infrastructure/vehicle-to-vehicle (V2I/V2V) test beds including installation and testing of roadside units
  • Trusted advisor to state and local agencies on implementation and deployment of CAV solutions
  • Development of real-time data portals for CAV service providers (e.g., VDOT SmarterRoads)

[This slide contains a header with an image as a background: an aerial photo of a section of a city with two icons (bus and transit) connected via a grid above the city.]

Slide 10: ITS & Engineering

  • Trusted expertise through full life cycle of ITS projects
  • User-driven system design follows systems engineering process
  • Focus on effective operations and maintenance of systems
  • Mobility, technology, deployment assessment
    • State and Regional ITS Architectures
    • ITS Strategic Planning
    • Concepts of Operation
  • Design-build and turn-key design/deployment
  • Over 150,000 ITS devices integrated
  • Timing of over 1000 traffic signals annually

[This slide contains a header with an image as a background: a close-up photo of a green traffic light with blurred vehicle headlights in the background. It also contains a photo of a man in a TMC.]

Slide 11: Goods Movement

  • Support to states on Core and Expanded Innovative Technology Deployment (ITD) programs for commercial vehicle compliance/violation checking
    • CVIEW+
    • Inspect
    • Checkpoint
  • inspect
    • 3032 total users
    • current inspect contracts in 8 states
    • product support: 15 minute response time
    • total inspections completed in 2016 with inspect: 654,311
  • CVIEWplus+
    • customer request to production: 40 days
    • user sessions (January 2017): 20,782
    • carrier and vehicle queries completed in 2016: 1,442,053
    • total users: 7,972 in 21 states

[This slide contains a header with an image as a background: a photo of a freight truck on a highway. It also contains an Iteris infographic of statistics which are listed above.]

Slide 12: Integration/Operations/Maintenance

  • Central, field and Cloud integration of technologies and software apps
  • Convergence of traffic operations and data analytics
  • TMC operations and ITS device/coms network management
    • Managing Virginia DOT’s 5 TMCs and operations program since 2015
    • Equipped video-based traffic sensors for over 1/3 of signalized intersections in U.S.
    • Deployed 900 miles of wireless network coverage
  • Designed and integrated 23 TMC facilities since 2005

[This slide contains a header with an image as a background: a close-up photo of a computer server farm.]

Slide 13: Mobility & Analysis

  • Mobility
    • Regional and Local Systems Operations Planning
    • Transportation Planning (multi-modal, vulnerable users, community)
  • Analytics
    • Leading developer of performance measurement and analysis systems and services

[This slide contains a header with an image as a background: a close-up, blurred photo of a city street with 0s and 1s superimposed over it.]

Slide 14: Trusted Expertise Throughout the Full Life Cycle of Transportation Projects

User-Driven System Design → Hands-On Implementation → Pro-Active Operations → High-Level Mobility and Technology Assessment

  • Planning for Operations
  • Systems Engineering
  • Data Analytics
  • Traveler Information
  • Connected Mobility
  • 5000+ ITS/Engineering and Planning projects completed
  • Advisors to 50 State DOTs, 1000+ county agencies, 10,000+ municipalities
  • Timed over 15,000 Traffic signals
  • Operating over 30 Traffic Management Centers
  • 14 U.S. States utilize Iteris Advanced Traveler Information Systems

[This slide contains a circular flowchart and statistics that are reproduced above.]

Slide 15: The Skills We Look For

[This slide contains a background photo of a futuristic concept car.]

Slide 16: Skill Areas

  • Engineering (civil, electrical, computer science, systems)
  • Computer Science (programming, integration, system design)
    • Includes user interface design, mobile applications, analytics
  • Transportation and urban planning
  • Other specialties
    • Meteorology
    • Mathematics/statistics
    • Control room operations (monitoring services, supervision, coordination with other agencies/first responders)
    • Central and field integration technicians and inspection services
    • Product support (engineers and technicians)

Slide 17: General Experience Needed

  • BS in Engineering for key professional positions
    • PE, PTOE certifications
    • Some clients require PMP for many project management roles
  • Masters degrees useful for planning/analytics/research-related activities/specialties
  • IT activities: Mix of collegiate and hands-on experience
  • Operations staff may have more eclectic backgrounds
    • Traffic engineering technicians
    • Military
    • SCADA
    • Air Traffic Control
  • Integration activities may involve various certifications (MCSE, IMSA)

Slide 18: Iteris Smart Community Vision

  • Transportation & Network Operating Centers
  • Location-Specific Weather Data
  • Multimodal
  • Detection Equipment
  • Commercial Vehicle Operations
  • SCADA
  • Signal Operations
  • Traveler Information
  • Performance Measurement Software
  • Network Management Software
  • Transportation Management Centers

[This slide contains a 3D model of a “Smart Community” city block as designed by Iteris. Icons of highlighted Smart Community features surround the model and are connected to it via lines. These features are listed above.]

Slide 19: Thank You!

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