WYDOT to hold webinar on Wyoming’s proposed Connected Vehicle Pilot Project
Webinar Feb. 5, 2016
by Wyoming Department of Transportation
February 4, 2016
Wyoming is one of three sites chosen by the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) for pilot projects to deploy connected vehicle technology. WYDOT’s proposal focuses on improving safety and freight mobility along the I-80 corridor, with the intent to develop a program that can be applied in other rural states.
During the Feb. 5 webinar, the Wyoming Department of Transportation (WYDOT) will hold a webinar on Friday, February 5th from 11AM to noon in which they will present to U.S. DOT officials its proposal for using connected vehicle technology to improve dissemination of road condition reports through in-vehicle advisories to support speed management, detours, parking and the presence of maintenance and emergency vehicles.
Interested persons can sign up for the webinar here: www.itsa.org/icfwyomingconopswebinar
MORE INFO:
ICF/Wyoming CV Pilot Site Concept of Operations Webinar
Date: Friday, February 5, 2016
Time: 1:00PM - 2:00PM EST
Presenter: Kate Hartman - Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program Manager - ITS JPO, USDOT
Presenter: Deepak Gopalakrishna - ICF/Wyoming Project Manager
Background:
Sponsored by USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO), the Connected Vehicle Pilot Deployment Program seeks to combine connected vehicle and mobile device technologies in innovative and cost-effective ways. Ultimately, this program will improve traveler mobility and system productivity while reducing environmental impacts and enhancing safety. The USDOT has selected three pilot sites, where teams are in the process of conducting Phase 1 Concept Development activities leading to later phases (Phase 2 Design/Build/Test and Phase 3 Operations). The three selected pilot sites are ICF/Wyoming, Tampa (THEA) and New York City.
ICF/Wyoming Site Information:
The ICF/Wyoming Pilot Project is intended to develop a suite of applications that utilize vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) and vehicle to vehicle (V2V) communication technology to reduce the number and severity of adverse weather-related incidents in the I-80 Corridor in order to improve safety and reduce incident-related delays. These applications support a flexible range of services from advisories, roadside alerts, parking notifications and dynamic travel guidance. Information from these applications are made available directly to the equipped fleets or through data connections to fleet management centers (who will then communicate it to their trucks using their own systems). The project is focused on the needs of commercial vehicle operators in the State of Wyoming.
Webinar Details:
During the Concept Development Phase, there will be three public webinars from each pilot site to provide all interested parties a sense of the key issues addressed in each deployment, the conceptual approach, and expected deployment impacts. This Concept of Operations webinar is the first of three webinars focusing on: issues to be addressed at the deployment site, the deployment concept, and insights gained from stakeholder engagement activities during concept development process. The next webinar will discuss how the sites plan to measure and monitor the success of the sites in meeting the performance goals of the deployment with respect to safety, mobility and environmental impacts. The last webinar will be on the comprehensive deployment plan prior to Phase 2, which brings together the deployment concept, the performance measurement plan, and other areas (e.g., safety management, privacy, security, participant training, and application development and integration). Stay tuned for more upcoming public webinars from the three pilot sites by visiting the program’s website at: http://www.its.dot.gov/pilots/.
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