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Intelligent Transportation Systems
Joint Program Office

Microlearning Videos

ITS and Safety

Clip from video showing the five elements of the Safe System Approach: "Safer People, Safer Vehicles, Safer Speeds, Safer Roads, and Post-Crash Care."

ITS and the Safe System Approach

An overview of how intelligent transportation systems (ITS) align with the Safe System Approach (SSA) - a guiding framework to enhance safety on our surface transportation system.

Clip from video with text that reads: "Speeding is a significant contributor to deaths and serious injury on our roadways and is particularly hazardous to pedestrians."

ITS and Safer Speeds

Exploring how ITS technology can be used to encourage drivers to comply with posted speed limits, dynamically set speed limits based on travel conditions, or enforce posted speed limits.

Clip from video showing the five elements of the Safe System Approach with text below that reads: "Creating redundancy is critical to achieving a safe transportation system."

ITS and Safer Roads

Using intelligent transportation systems (ITS)-driven roadway designs to compensate for human error, encourage safer behaviors, and protect the most vulnerable users.

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ITS and Safer People

Leveraging intelligent transportation systems (ITS) to promote responsible driving behavior and create road conditions that prioritize every traveler's safety.

Clip from video with text that reads: "Traditionally, Emergency Medical Services (EMS) are informed of crashed via 911 calls."

ITS and Post-Crash Care

Enhancing survivability and responder safety by integrating intelligent transportation systems (ITS) into rapid emergency access and comprehensive traffic incident management.

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ITS and Safer Vehicles

Applying intelligent transportation systems (ITS) technologies to broaden in-vehicle safety features that prevent crashes and reduce their severity for occupants and bystanders.

The Principles of Systems Engineering

Clip from video that reads: "Systems Engineering Approach views the problem from the stakeholders' point of view by defining needs from the user's perspective."

Systems Engineering Approach

An overview of systems engineering's foundations, spotlighting concept of operations, requirements management, system architecture, and lifecycle verification.

Clip from video of a speaker, Rick Denney, with text that reads: "Systems engineering is a good engineering approach that allows us to answer those questions and make those demonstrations as clearly and as timely as possible"

Importance of Applying Systems Engineering to ITS Projects

Examining why applying systems engineering accelerates integration, enhances safety, and ensures scalable, resilient intelligent transportation systems (ITS) solutions.

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Systems Engineering Approach Resources

Showcasing essential standards, tools, and learning platforms to build systems engineering expertise for successful intelligent transportation systems (ITS) implementations.