ITS Professional Capacity Building Program

T3 Webinars

Webinar Overview

Description

The purpose of this Wireless T3 webinar is to provide background information concerning the use wireless data transport systems. The availability of unlicensed radio spectrum has fostered tremendous growth in wireless data networking and the use of wireless technologies in support of transportation networks. That growth in the use of unlicensed radio devices presents us with challenges. This session will explore the reasons for the growth and introduce information concerning unlicensed spectrum, architectures and wireless data transport standards.

Background

This session is the first in a series of T3s that will focus on Wireless Data Transport for Traffic and ITS. Proposed upcoming topics include:

• Coding Methods; Radio Link Engineering
• The Loss Budget
• Managing Interference; Antennas
• Application Engineering; Rule of Thumb

Intended Audience

This Wireless Data Transport T3 is for traffic and ITS professionals that desire to develop or refresh their knowledge of wireless systems. This includes transportation engineers, transportation planners, traffic operations engineers and managers, transit operations managers, and emergency management agency managers. The information presented will create a foundation for additional discussion.

Host:

Paul Olson, FHWA Resource Center, Lakewood, CO

Biography

Presenter:

Patrick (Pat) Clair PMP, Senior Technical Specialist, Southwest Research Institute®

Pat Clair is a Senior Technical Specialist with Southwest Research Institute® (SwRI®) in San Antonio, Texas. In that position he is responsible for developing and deploying Intelligent Transportations Systems hardware and software solutions and performing multi-vendor product evaluations in support of SwRI clients. In his role at the Institute, Pat provides engineering consulting, education and training to SwRI clients worldwide.

Before joining SwRI, Pat developed an in-depth background in new telecommunications product introduction, project delivery, software creation environment management, and professional training and development in numerous professional positions with AT&T and Lucent Technologies. Additionally, Mr. Clair teaches a variety of professional development, business analysis, ecommerce, and project management courses at the university level.

While a senior project manager and systems engineer at AT&T and Lucent Technologies, he was responsible for telecommunications system development, design, reliability, and implementation for a number of projects. These projects included the computer network design and engineering for numerous E9-1-1 dispatch centers.

Pat has an extensive background in digital video having deployed switched digital video in a fiber/twisted pair environment and CATV systems over fiber/coax. As a director with Lucent Technologies, Mr. Clair was responsible for successful completion of major wireless and media-based hardware and software projects in the U.S., the Caribbean, and Latin America region.

Mr. Clair has provided technical and management presentations concerning the use of telecommunications value engineering and project management tools to achieve world-class results since 1993. The focus of his work has been to increase the quality and velocity of projects in support of customer goals.