American Society of Civil Engineers, Educational Outreach section
Description: Introducing children to engineering through fun, hands-on activities is a natural way to increase their understanding of an "invisible" profession, as well as broaden their career options. ASCE's educational outreach programs reach children, their parents and educators all over the country. From the award-winning Building Big miniseries to building towers out of newspapers, ASCE offers the tools to help our members plan and lead outstanding educational outreach programs.
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Applications Overview
Description: This website provides an overview of the technologies addressed by the Federal Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) program and contains links to various information resources that will be useful in the planning and deployment of ITS. Provides resources for sub-topics within 16 ITS application areas: arterial management, freeway management, transit management, incident management, emergency management, electronic payment, traveler information, information management, crash prevention and safety, roadway operations and maintenance, road weather management, commercial vehicle operations, intermodal freight, collision avoidance systems, collision notification systems, and driver assistance systems.
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Aurora Program
Description: Aurora is an international partnership of public agencies who work together to perform joint research activities in the area of road weather information systems (RWIS). This website is designed to introduce the program, the partners, and our collaborative research projects.
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Benefits Database
Description: A database that provides the ITS professional community with quick and easy access to information regarding the impacts of ITS deployments. Used to understand benefits of ITS applications at legislative and technological levels.
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California State Automobile Association "The Otto Club"
Description: Child-level games, stories, sing-a-longs, using great graphics. The site emphasizes safety.
Affiliated with: California State Automobile Association (CSAA)
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Center for Advanced Infrastructure and Transportation (CAIT)
Description: The Center develops "research opportunities through fostering partnerships. The research and development continues to expand into different realms of importance for transportation safety. Reaching out to areas such as highway lighting, emergency management, harbor management, dredging operations, and many more are only some of the ways the Center has been achieving its transportation research goals."
Affiliated with: Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey
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Center for Intelligent Systems Research
Description: ITS-related university research.
Affiliated with: George Washington University
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Center for Intelligent Transportation Research (CITR)
Description: OSU-CITR Center for Intelligent Transportation Research, an organization within the College of Engineering at The Ohio State University, coordinates the efforts of numerous faculty, research scientists and students in areas related to Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS). CITR interacts and forms partnerships with industry, state, and federal organizations in order to contribute to the education, research and service mission of The Ohio State University.
Affiliated with: Ohio State University
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Center for Professional Development, Texas Transportation Institute (TTI)
Description: Continuing education opportunities.
Affiliated with: Texas A&M University
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Center for Transportation Research
Description: CTR is a nationally recognized research institution focusing on transportation research, education, and public service. We invite you to review our programs, facility, and professional research staff. Use website's search function to located ITS-related content.
Affiliated with: University of Texas, Austin
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Center for Transportation Studies
Description: Research areas in information technology for ITS.
Affiliated with: University of Virginia
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Center for Transportation Studies, ITS Institute
Description: A new traffic control game developed by the ITS Institute and Web Courseworks lets high school students try their hand at working in the engineering and transportation field.
“Gridlock Buster” is a traffic control game that incorporates tools and ideas that traffic control engineers use in their everyday work. Players must pass a series of levels while acquiring specific skills in exercising control and fixing situations in a simulated environment.
Affiliated with: University of Minnesota.
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Center for Urban Transportation Research
Description: ITS-related university research.
Affiliated with: University of South Florida
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Center for Urban Transportation Studies (CUTS)
Description: ITS project reports.
Affiliated with: University of Wisconsin, Milwaukee
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Consortium for ITS Training and Education (CITE)
Description: CITE is a unique organization of universities and industry associations focused on providing comprehensive advanced transportation training and education. To date, CITE has developed over thirty interactive web-based courses and offers three advanced transportation certificates. CITE offers courses for transportation technicians, professionals and college students. Courses for Continuing Education Units (CEUs) are available directly through CITE. Courses that will count toward a specific college degree are offered through CITE's University Partners. Also, CITE now offers five of its courses in Spanish responding to the increasing demand for ITS training to Latin-American professionals.
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Costs Database
Description: Database provides the ITS professional community with quick and easy access to costs data to be used in developing cost estimates of ITS deployments.
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Deployment Statistics Database
Description: The Deployment Statistics Web Site provides access to data that were gathered by the United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office (JPO) to measure the level of ITS deployment in 108 metropolitan areas (78 of the Nation's largest metropolitan areas plus 30 of the nation's medium sized metropolitan areas ) and the 50 states. Deployers of new technologies can learn from deployers of similar technologies in similar metropolitan areas.
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ENTERPRISE Program
Description: The ENTERPRISE Program is a pooled-fund study with member agencies from North America and Europe. Its main purpose is to use the pooled resources of its members, private sector partners and the United States federal government to develop, evaluate and deploy Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS).
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FHWA Highway Community Exchange
Description: Online community for discussing transportation topics, including ITS.
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FHWA ITS for Kids
Description: Information about ITS for youngsters and teens.
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