As part of the Tampa Bay Regional ITS Architecture (TBRIA) Update project currently being administered by the Florida Department of Transportation (FDOT), PB Farradyne, a Division of Parsons Brinckerhoff Quade & Douglas Inc., developed a customized market package named Pedestrian Safety and Access to enhance pedestrian safety in the Tampa Bay region. The project Team is currently interacting with the National ITS Architecture (NITSA) committee members and the ITS community at large for addition of this market package to the NITSA so that other regions could benefit from this research. The Pedestrian Safety and Access market package development process included the following tasks: (1) an outreach process to assess pedestrian safety problems in the region; (2) a literature review and interviews with various public agencies with experience in pedestrian ITS technologies to define pros and cons of each technology and classify technologies under broad functional areas; (3) develop pedestrian safety functional areas and associated requirements; (4) review the Version 3.0 of the NITSA to examine "what's out there" in terms of pedestrian related data flows; (5) develop an equipment package to deliver the identified advanced pedestrian functions and a top-level market package based on data-flows to and from various ITS subsystems and terminators; and (6) interact/coordinate with the NITSA committee and the other members of the ITS community for addition of this market package under the NITSA. In essence, this paper provides conceptual details of a customized Pedestrian Safety and Access market package, developed for the Tampa Bay region with a potential for broader applications in many other regions with pedestrian safety problems. Further research work is needed to add and/or refine functional areas, specify requirements, and develop on the pedestrian safety market package concepts outlined in this paper.
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