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The ITS Office, each of the seven District Offices and the Turnpike Enterprise are cooperatively developing ITS Corridor Concept Plans for Florida’s five principal corridors on the Florida Intrastate Highway System (FIHS): Interstate 95, Interstate 75, Interstate 4, Interstate 10 and Florida’s Turnpike.
The ITS Corridor Plans will define the needs, alternatives and recommended implementation of ITS along each of the corridors and, as appropriate, the associated diversion or bypass routes. The results of these ITS Corridor Plans will be combined into a statewide ITS Program Plan for the deployment of a coordinated, integrated, and interoperable system. This ITS Program Plan will identify the anticipated ITS needs, funding and recommended sequence of projects for programming on a statewide basis along these key corridors.
The ITS Office’s General Consultant, PBS&J, is currently developing these plans. A draft inventory, needs statement and straw architecture have been developed. The consultant is currently working towards completion of ITS architectures for each corridor, a concept of operations, and deployment plan for each corridor. The deployments outlined in these plans will be based on existing ITS plans along the corridor.
Additional needs will be identified for system integration, continuity and rural applications to support incident management and evacuation coordination.
The Corridor Concept Plans are scheduled to be complete in September 2001 and the ITS Program Plan will be complete by November 2001. Please contact Mr. Gene Glotzbach at (850) 410-5616 or gene.glotzbach@dot.state.fl.us for additional information.