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Florida Department
of Transportation
ITS Office
605 Suwannee Street, MS 90
Tallahassee, Florida 32399-0450
(850) 410-5600
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FDOT Announces the 2002 ITS Training Schedule |
The FDOT ITS Office and the Team of ITS Champions is pleased to announce a 2002 ITS Training Schedule. This training is offered as a continuation of the ITS Outreach, Education and Training Program. Course offerings in this program include:
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Regional ITS Architecture Workshop (May 21-22, 2002)
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| • | Systems Engineering 101 (July
22-23, 2002 This course is an introduction to systems engineering for ITS project managers and project staff. It provides a high-level view of a broad topic area, introducing basic concepts to individuals who are working on ITS projects. |
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The goal is to allow these individuals to understand the benefits of applying systems engineering approaches as a means of developing quality systems. The course covers technical practices, such as modeling, prototyping, trade-off analysis and testing, and management practices, such as risk assessment and mitigation, which make up “best practices” in the systems engineering arena. A combination of lecture and classroom exercises, with transportation systems examples, are used to illustrate the basic concepts and to introduce the topics to students.
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ITS Standards Overview (September 30, 2002)
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| • | ITS Standards: Center-to-Center
Communications (October 1, 2002) In recent years, ITE and its partners have developed a set of Traffic Management Data Dictionary (TMDD) standards for Advanced Traffic Management Systems (ATMS). The TMDD was developed to define traffic-management functional data elements from which messages can be constructed and which in turn can be uniformly interpreted throughout the collection of ITS subsystems. This course will explain the advantages and disadvantages in terms of deployment suitability and the requirements needed to support the two standards (DATEX-ASN and CORBA) used to transmit information across the ITS infrastructure. This module will also include the TMDD, Incident Management and ATIS standards as they become available.
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| • | ITS Standards: Dynamic Message
Signs (October 2, 2002) This course will provide focused information on DMS for transportation professionals who are planning, designing, procuring, deploying and operating these ITS field devices. |
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These devices are used in freeway management systems, traffic control systems and transit systems. The DMS standard covers a wide range of message display signs installed in roadside or in overhead structures, including variable message signs, portable signs and blank-out signs. In order to accommodate different technologies and types of signs, the standards developers introduced new terminology for these devices. Today the DMS Standard is one of the more mature NTCIP standards available.
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| • | ITS Standards: Actuated Traffic
Signals (October 3, 2002) This course will provide focused information on actuated traffic signals for transportation professionals, who are planning, designing, procuring, deploying and operating these ITS field devices. An estimated 270,000 traffic signals in the United States have been provided from various manufacturers. These devices do not share a common communications protocol and pose a serious challenge to integration in an ITS environment. Further, they pose a significant burden to many public agencies because of their lack of interchangeability in existing systems. These conditions provide ample incentive for the public-agency marketplace to move forward with traffic signal ITS standards. This course will also provide the latest information concerning the Advanced Transportation Controller. |
For additional information regarding these training opportunities, please contact Mr. Liang Hsia at the FDOT ITS Office in Tallahassee, (850) 410-5615.
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