About
The Intelligent Transportations Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO)
OUR VISION:
Accelerate the use of ITS to transform the way society moves.
OUR MISSION:
Lead collaborative and innovative research, development, and implementation of ITS to improve the safety and mobility of people and goods.
Planning for the Future of ITS
The ITS Joint Program Office’s 2020-2025 ITS Strategic Plan
About ITS JPO
Current Research
The U.S. Department of Transportation’s ITS research focuses on several high-priority areas including Emerging and Enabling Technologies, Data Access and Exchanges, ITS Cybersecurity Research, Automation, ITS4US, and Accelerating ITS Deployment. The ITS Strategic Plan includes in-depth discussion of the ITS Program’s strategic goals, these research areas, and four technology transfer programs.
Learn more in the 2020-2025 ITS Strategic Plan.
Research Areas
Intelligent Transportation Systems Deployment
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ITS Deployment
- ITS4US
- Vehicle-to-Infrastructure Resources
- Connected Vehicle Pilots
- Connected Vehicle News and Events
- Connected Vehicle Deployer Resources
- Connected Vehicle Deployment Assistance
- Connected Vehicle Applications
- Sample Deployment Concepts
- Connected Vehicle Publications
- National ITS Architecture
- Smart City Challenge
Technology Transfer
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Technology Transfer
Research Archive
International Collaboration on ITS Research
Program Plan
In seeking to establish a coordinated, global market for connected vehicle systems, the ITS Program has reached out to nations around the world to establish a basis for joint research and exchange. Two important efforts have resulted in formal agreements:
- In January 2009, RITA and the European Commission Directorate General for Information Society and Media (DG INFSO) signed an Implementing Arrangement to develop coordinated research programs specifically focusing on cooperative vehicle systems. The commitment was further affirmed in an EU-US Joint Declaration of Intent on Research Cooperation in Cooperative Systems, signed in November 2009. The goals of this declaration are:
- Support, wherever possible, global open standards to ensure interoperability of cooperative systems worldwide and to preclude the development and adoption of redundant standards;
- Identify research areas that would benefit from a harmonized approach and that could be addressed by coordinated or joint research; and
- Avoid duplication of research efforts.
- In 2010, the Office of the Assistant Secretary for Research and Technology and the Road Bureau of the Ministry of Land, Infrastructure, Transport, and Tourism (MLIT) of Japan signed an Implementing Arrangement to cooperate in transportation science and technology. The arrangement formalizes and advances the existing technical cooperation and information exchange on ITS that exists between the two nations.