Iteris has won a US$1m (£816,000) contract to update the Florida Department of Transportation’s (FDOT) statewide intelligent transportation systems architecture (SITSA) and seven regional ITS architectures (RITSAs).
Under the five-year agreement, the transportation informatics company will review and evaluate each architecture, and define plans for each FDOT region to address transportation needs with advanced technology, such as CAVs.
Iteris will also highlight opportunities for the capture and use of transportation data to support decision making in Florida. The SITSA and RITSAs will support Florida’s ITS planning and deployment to encourage interoperability and CAV readiness.
At project completion, FDOT will have Federal Highway Administration Rule 940-compliant ITS architectures that support Florida’s transportation systems management and operations, and support ITS and CAV project planning over a 10-year period.
Cliff Heise, vice president, national ITS Architecture lead and federal program project manager, Transportation Systems at Iteris, said: “As Florida’s transportation needs increase and new technologies such as connected and automated vehicles advance and proliferate, it is vital that transportation stakeholders invest in preparations for the new realities and use a common framework to efficiently facilitate their project development and deployment activities across organisational boundaries.”
Iteris will use the latest version of the Architecture Reference for Cooperative and Intelligent Transportation (ARC-IT) and its software tool set, the Regional Architecture Development for Intelligent Transportation, to update the Florida architectures.
