IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/p/cdl/itsrrp/qt5550v1nr.html
   My bibliography  Save this paper

Lessons From Case Studies Of Advanced Transportation And Information Systems

Author

Listed:
  • Dahlgren, Joy
  • Weissenberger, Stein
  • Hickman, Mark
  • Lo, Hong

Abstract

This paper poses two key questions regarding ATMIS implementation: how are ATMIS services successfully implemented?, in what circumstances are ATMIS strategies cost-effective? The authors attempt to find answers by examining case studies of twelve jurisdictions. The answers should help others judge where and how ATMIS should be implemented. The first section of the paper identifies the requirements for successful ATMIS implementation and operation based on the case study findings. The second describes a diffusion pattern found in the case studies. The final section concludes that more is known about how to implement ATMIS than about whether implementation will be cost-effective and suggests devoting more resources to evaluation. The first requirement for successful ATMIS implementation is a need for improved traffic management. Given this need, there must also be leadership to initiate and organize a project. This leadership is most often found at the staff level. The leaders must have information. Information is obtained from reading, contact with other transportation professionals, and from consultants, who generally participate at some point in the implementation process. Funding is also needed, and many combinations of sources of funding are possible. Given these basic requirements, community support, multi-agency cooperation, and technical resources can be generated. ATMIS is first implemented in large, congested cities, particularly those with frequent surges of traffic due to sports or entertainment events. Smaller, nearby cities, seeing the success of ATMIS in these cities, subsequently implement ATMIS. More evaluation of actual ATMIS implementation is needed to provide a basis for determining the circumstances in which ATMIS is likely to be cost-effective.

Suggested Citation

  • Dahlgren, Joy & Weissenberger, Stein & Hickman, Mark & Lo, Hong, 1996. "Lessons From Case Studies Of Advanced Transportation And Information Systems," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt5550v1nr, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
  • Handle: RePEc:cdl:itsrrp:qt5550v1nr
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/5550v1nr.pdf;origin=repeccitec
    Download Restriction: no
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Tsao, Jacob H.-S., 1999. "A Decision-Oriented Framework for Evaluating Deployment Strategies for Intelligent Transportation Systems," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt7m2445d5, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
    2. Yim, Y. B., 2001. "ATIS -- Alternative Revenue Approaches," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt4w71c1rs, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
    3. Weissenberger, Stein, 1998. "Why Its Projects Should Be Small, Local And Private," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt634959x5, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.
    4. Levinson, David & Gillen, David & Chang, Elva, 1999. "Assessing the Benefits and Costs of Intelligent Transportation Systems: The Value of Advanced Traveler Information Systems," Institute of Transportation Studies, Research Reports, Working Papers, Proceedings qt9m8534tc, Institute of Transportation Studies, UC Berkeley.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:cdl:itsrrp:qt5550v1nr. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Lisa Schiff (email available below). General contact details of provider: https://edirc.repec.org/data/itucbus.html .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.