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Traffic Engineering and Operations Office

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Intelligent Transportation Systems

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The Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Program endeavors to provide a safe transportation system that ensures the mobility of people and goods, enhances economic prosperity, and preserves the quality of our environment and communities.


The ITS Program is divided into three areas and a new initiative:


The connected vehicle initiative uses leading edge technologies to quickly identify roadway hazards and alert drivers. Among others, these technologies include:
  • Wireless communications
  • Vehicle sensors
  • Global positioning system navigation


Management/Deployments


  • Promote ITS deployments on Florida's roadways, develop standards, maintain the ITS Strategic Plan, and implement a systems engineering process to support procurement and deployment of ITS
  • Deploy advanced traveler information systems and 511
  • Develop and update the ITS standards and specifications
  • Provide technical support and assistance to FDOT's District Offices and other partners
  • Promote and coordinate the statewide use of robust, non-proprietary ITS standards.

Keyword Links:
Customer Satisfaction Tracking Survey — Cost Feasible Plan — 511 — RTMCs — ITS Strategic Plan — ITS Performance Measures — Amber Alert — Silver Alert — Transit — SunGuide ®Disseminator — Annual Report Awards/Achievements — Probes — Special Projects— Standards/Specifications




Telecommunications Program Management


  • Guide deployment of a communications backbone to serve ITS deployments on major corridors
  • Manage and update the Statewide ITS Wide Area Network (WAN) to support ITS deployments
  • Manage the maintenance program for the Statewide ITS WAN to support ITS deployments, motorist aid call boxes, and various ITS research and development initiatives
  • Manage the Federal Communications Commission statewide radio license database
  • Manage the Wireless General Manager Agreement, a resource sharing public/private partnership which places commercial wireless carriers on FDOT rights-of-way, with SpectraSite

Keyword Links:
Motorist Aid Call Boxes — ITS Wide Area Network (WAN) for Center - to - Center Communications — ITSFM - ITS Facility Management System — Lodestar — Statewide Microwave System — 47 MHz Land Mobile Radios — Licensing and Frequency Coordination — Everglades Radio Network — Highway Advisory Radio (HAR)




ITS Software and Architecture

  • Manage the SunGuide ® Software System for freeway and incident management, transportation management center interoperability, and data archiving.
  • Manage the Statewide ITS Architecture to promote integrated ITS regions, corridors, and projects.
  • Coordinate ITS training to enhance the quality and quantity of the State’s ITS workforce.
  • Unified traffic information and management system for the State of Florida ITS traffic data.

Keyword Links:
Central Data Warehouse — Change Management Board — Statewide ITS Architecture (SITSA) — SunGuide® Software — SunGuide® Software Users Group — Systems Engineering





For additional information on the ITS Program, please contact Elizabeth Birriel at Elizabeth.Birriel@dot.state.fl.us.