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About this Web Site

The purpose of this Regional ITS Architecture web site is to encourage review of the Regional ITS Architectures under development so the architectures accurately reflect the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) vision for the Region.  

The Northern Ohio Regional ITS Architectures are being developed by Consensus Systems Technologies Corporation (ConSysTec with Ron Ice & Assoc.) under subcontract to HNTB for the following areas of Northern Ohio:

  • Cleveland
  • Akron-Canton
  • Youngstown
  • Toledo

Comments can be sent by email to Northernohio@consystec.com  or by USPS to:

ConSysTec 

PO Box 517, 17 Miller Ave.
Shenorock, NY 10587-0517

 

Each page of the web site includes a "Send Your Comments" link in the left hand menu for your convenience.

 

 

Purpose

Federal regulations require that major Intelligent Transportation Systems projects deployed with federal funding after April 2005 conform to a regional ITS architecture based on the National ITS Architecture, and that the regional ITS architecture of planned and deployed projects be documented.  Beyond the Federal Requirements, a regional ITS architecture represents a coherent plan for efficient deployment of information technology to satisfy local stakeholder surface transportation requirements. 

 

Regional ITS Architecture Development Process

The focus of the Regional ITS Architectures is to identify communication information exchange requirements between specific ITS elements in the Region.

 

Starting in January 2003, interviews were conducted by HNTB staff with agencies operating ITS systems in Northern Ohio to identify existing and planned inventory items and services.  Along with information from previous architecture efforts in the regions, this information was used to begin the process of developing a Regional ITS Architecture with the stakeholders of each Region.

 

Having collected and assimilated information about the Region into the draft Turbo Architecture database, we then conducted a one-day workshop in each Region with stakeholders representing all aspects of ITS.
 
During the workshop the Inventory was reviewed and generic services were identified.  Where stakeholders indicate a need, we customized the National ITS Architecture Market Packages for specific applications identified by the stakeholders.  Following the workshop a draft consensus Regional ITS Architecture was created, which is now available for review on this website. 

Following a comment period and a second stakeholder workshop, a final consensus Regional ITS Architectures for each region will be documented.


Last Updated: 08-19-2006