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Provide written procedures and training for issuing warnings to Regional Transportation Management Center operators for successful weather integration.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 05/09/2011 | Source Date:
Mandatory dynamic automatic controlling Intelligent Speed Assistance (ISA) could reduce fatal crashes over the entire road network by more than 50 percent, whereas static informing ISA could still give a reduction of almost 20 percent.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 05/06/2011 | Source Date:
Implementing an enhanced Automatic Collision Notification (ACN) system in all passenger vehicles in the US could help improve outcomes for over 15,200 drivers each year involved in moderate to high severity crashes.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 05/06/2011 | Source Date:
An enhanced Automatic Collision Notification System enables three quarters (75.9 percent) of injured occupants to be correctly identified as seriously injured, by using only data automatically collected and transmitted by the vehicles.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 05/06/2011 | Source Date:
Weather Notification System issues on time alerts 88.9 percent of time, but message coverage remains incomplete.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 05/06/2011 | Source Date:
An Arterial Service Patrol deployed during the re-construction of I-64 in St. Louis had a benefit-cost ratio of 8.3:1, lowered secondary crashes by 183 per year, and reduced annual congestion costs by $1,034,000.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 04/26/2011 | Source Date:
The St. Louis Motorist Assist program had a benefit-cost ratio of 38.25:1, with annual secondary crashes lowered by 1,082 and annual congestion costs lowered by $1,130,000.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 04/26/2011 | Source Date:
Red light camera enforcement programs in 14 cities in the U.S. reduced the per capita rate of fatal red light running crashes by 24 percent.
Content Type: Benefit | Date Posted: 04/11/2011 | Source Date:
Beware that modeling may not be a suitable substitute for before-after studies of ITS integration projects.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 03/31/2011 | Source Date:
Involve end users and regional stakeholders, follow agency protocol for software development and release, and gain upper management support when designing and developing an Integrated Incident Management System.
Content Type: Lesson | Date Posted: 03/31/2011 | Source Date:
ITS Deployment Evaluation

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