T3 Webinar:

National ITS Architecture Update: New Features of the Latest Version of the National ITS Architecture (Version 6.0)

August 23, 2007

Text version of Webinar presentation:

"National ITS Architecture Update"

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Slide 1: National ITS Architecture Update

A Primer on Wireless Data Transport Systems:
ITS Joint Program Office
Professional Capacity Building Program
Talking Technology and Transportation (T3) Presentation
August 23, 2007

Slide 2: Agenda

National ITS Architecture

Overview
Version 6.0 update

Turbo Architecture version 4.0 preview
Discussion of deployment support and resources available
Presenters

David Binkley, Lockheed Martin
Mac Lister, FHWA

Slide 3: National ITS Architecture Overview

Slide 4: What is ITS?

Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) include the electronics, communications or information processing used singly or integrated to improve the efficiency or safety of surface transportation
Examples:

Traffic signal controllers
Traffic Management Centers
"511" (traveler information)
Electronic toll-tagging

Slide 5: What is an ITS Architecture?

Framework for Developing Integrated Transportation Systems
Identifies:

Organizations
Systems operated
Functions performed
Communications
Information exchanged

Slide 6: ITS Architectures Provide a Framework for Integration

[This slide is titled "ITS Architectures Provide Framework for Integration." It shows data flows between Traffic, Travelers, Transit, and Emergency Service Providers.]

Slide 7: What is the National ITS Architecture?

HIGH-LEVEL national framework, "blueprint", used to help guide ITS deployment and transportation planning
Based on 33 transportation related ITS User Services:

Physical Entities – Subsystems/Terminators
Logical Architecture – Processes, Data Flow
Interfaces – Information Flows
Deployment oriented Market Packages

Slide 8: Architecture Products

Available on

CD-ROM
Website

Contains

Hypertext
PDF docs
Databases

Slide 9: Subsystems

Part of the overall Intelligent Transportation System
Identify major systems, functionality
Identify major interfaces
Define key standardization points
4 Categories

Centers
Field
Vehicles
Travelers

Slide 10: Subsystem Diagram

[This slide is titled "Subsystem Diagram." This slide displays a top-level Architecture Interconnect diagram. The diagram is sometimes called the "sausage" diagram and shows subsystems in the National ITS Architecture. The subsystems are: travelers; Centers; Vehicles, and; Field.]

Slide 11: Terminators Define the ITS Boundary

Entities outside of ITS
Define interfaces but not functionality
Four types of Terminators

Environment
Human
System
Other System

Slide 12: Market Packages

Architecture
Framework spanning all of ITS

Market Packages
Contain pieces of the architecture that provide a particular transportation service

Slide 13: "Architecture Flows" Define Information Exchanged

[This slide it titled "Architecture Flows Define Information Exchanged." This slide displays an example of an Architecture Flow where information is exchanged. In this example, an Event Promoter sends event plans information to a traffic management center, which in turn sends information to an emergency management center.]

Slide 14: National ITS Architecture Version 6.0 Update

Slide 15: National ITS Architecture is a "Living Document"

Continuing evolution of the architecture over 10 years
Version 6.0 continues support for ITS technical evolution and deployment

Slide 16: Architecture Evolution in Step with Industry

Research and Federal Programs

DOT Initiatives
Border Information Flow Architecture (BIFA)
Commercial Vehicle Information and System Networks (CVISN)

ITS Standards
Deployment Lessons Learned

Slide 17: Version 6.0 Changes.Subsystems, Terminators, Flows

[This slide is titled Version 6.0 Changes, Subsystems, Terminators, Flows. It lists three new terminators: Border Inspection Systems; Driver Identification Card; Public Health Systems. It lists two renamed terminators: Trade Regulatory Agency is now Boarder Inspection Administration; Transit System Operators is now Transit Operations Personnel. The slide reads no changes to Subsystems. Finally, a bar graph shows that there were 838 Architecture Flows is v5.0 of the National ITS Architecture; in v6.0 the total is 926.]

Slide 18: Market Package Changes

91 Total in V6.0 vs. 85 in V5.0
New MPs

APTS09 Transit Signal Priority
APTS10 Transit Passenger Counting
ATIS06 Transportation Operations Data Sharing

replaced Integrated Transportation Management/Route Guidance

ATIS10 VII Traveler Information
ATMS12 Roadside Lighting System Control

replaced Virtual TMC and Smart Probe Data

AVSS12 Cooperative Vehicle Safety Systems
MC11 Environmental Probe Surveillance
MC12 Infrastructure Monitoring

Slide 19: Architecture & the Initiatives

National ITS Architecture evolving as DOT initiatives are developed and tested
Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII)

Modify existing services (probe surveillance), interfaces between Vehicles and Roadway / Infrastructure
New probe-based services: traveler information, environmental probe surveillance, infrastructure monitoring

Slide 20: New VII Market Package

[This slide is titled "New VII Market Package." It displays the VII Market Packages and shows the different subsystems, equipment packages, terminators, and architecture flows that provide the VII service.]

Slide 21: Architecture & the Initiatives

[This slide it titled "Architecture & the Initiatives." It displays an image that shows a portion of a market package that addresses the Clarus initiative. ]

Slide 22: Architecture & Other Federal Activities

Expanded CVISN Capabilities

Sync National ITS Architecture with CVISN V3

Support Smart Roadside
New Driver Identification Card terminator

Border Information Flow Architecture (BIFA)

Modified International Border Electronic Clearance MP

New terminators: Border Inspection Administration, Border Inspection Systems

Slide 23: Other Changes

Support use of ATIS in No-Notice Disasters, ITS role in BioHazard situations

Interfaces for Reverse 911
New Public Health System terminator

Presentation, user access changes:

Functional requirements added to Equipment Package pages
Short user service descriptions added to top of each User Service Requirements page
Documents Page, added:

User Service Document
Regional ITS Architecture Guidance Document, V2
Systems Engineering for ITS

Slide 24: Other Changes

Rehosted Logical Architecture to Telelogic System Architect^TM

New look-and-feel in Data Flow Diagrams (DFDs)

Databases, documents, hypertext updated
Standards mapping updated

Sync with ITS Standards program web site
Map latest Standards activities to Architecture: TCIP V3, TMDD, DSRC/WAVE
Application Areas

Flows, standards support key areas of deployment

Slide 25: Other Changes—Standards Support

[This slide it titled "Other Changes—Standards Support." This slide displays an example of an Architecture Flow where information is exchanged. In this example, Traffic Operations Personnel send information to a traffic management center, which in turn sends information to the roadway.]

Slide 26: Version 6.0 Available Now

[This slide is titled "Version 6.0 Available Now" and shows an image of the National ITS Architecture Version 6.0 homepage. ]

Slide 27: Turbo Architecture Version 4.0 Update

Slide 28: What Turbo Does

[This slide is titled "What Turbo Does," referring to Turbo Architecture software program. The slide shows an example of how the software approaches creating a regional architecture by personalizes it and customizes it for a specific region or project. In this example, the slide shows an image of a general interface between a traffic management subsystem and a transit management subsystem and use that as a template to define the interface between a city PWD and city Transit. ]

Slide 29: Turbo Version 4.0

Comprehensive Upgrade will include

Support for Version 6.0 of the National ITS Architecture
Enhancements that focus on improving project definition based on a regional ITS architecture
Bug fixes to ensure trouble-free operation

Slide 30: Version 4.0 Project Enhancements

Version 4.0 is the first Turbo upgrade to focus on project definition capabilities

Focus on Regional ITS Architectures until now

Project definition interface will be revamped to make it more intuitive
New features will be added to make project definition more useful and powerful

Slide 31: Improved Project Interface

[This slide is titled "Improved Project Interface," referring to the improved Turbo interface. The slide shows an example of the Turbo interface. ]

Slide 32: Improved Project Interface

[This slide is titled "Improved Project Interface," referring to the improved Turbo interface. The slide shows an example of the Turbo interface. ]

Slide 33: Improved Project Interface

[This slide is titled "Improved Project Interface," referring to the improved Turbo interface. The slide shows an example of the Turbo interface. ]

Slide 34: Project Definition Challenge

[This slide it titled "Project Definition Challenge" and graphically displays the challenge of moving from a high–level regional architecture to specific, technology– and location-specific projects. ]

Slide 35: Project Definition Challenge (2)

[This slide it titled "Project Definition Challenge (2)" and graphically displays the challenge of moving from a high–level regional architecture to specific, technology– and location–specific projects. ]

Slide 36: Turbo V4.0 Solution (1)

[This slide is titled "Turbo V4.0 Solution (1)" and displays how Turbo Architecture V4.0 relates elements in different architectures. ]

Slide 37: Turbo V4.0 Solution (2)

[This slide is titled "Turbo V4.0 Solution (2)" and displays how Turbo Architecture V4.0 relates elements in different architectures. ]

Slide 38: Turbo V4.0 Solution (3)

Support User Defined Flow Names

Pick flow names that make sense for your project
Relate flows to National ITS Architecture flows

Slide 39: Turbo Release Schedule

Version 4.0 Available October 2007

Slide 40: Turbo User Support

800 Number (800-260-1001)
E-Mail (turbo@iteris.com)
Web (www.iteris.com/itsarch)

http://www.pcb.its.dot.gov/res_t3_archive.asp