More and more traffic management agencies are asking these questions as deployment of Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) technologies mature. The management requirements agencies face on a daily basis has become even more entangled due to threats of terrorism and pressure to develop inter-agency and regional responses to large disruptions of personal daily routines. The advent of ITS has provided a means to go beyond traditional concepts of managing the transportation infrastructure. Now transportation management systems provide an ability to actively "operate" the infrastructure to provide a higher level of service, safety and responsiveness to all "users" both public and private. As an outgrowth of this demand for coordinated action there has been a parallel growth in the focus on establishing "co-located" centers. These centers would house not only all of the transportation management agencies within a region (or potentially even a state) but would also include the Public Safety, Public Service and Emergency Management agencies from that same geographic zone. This has then raised the issue of physical versus virtual co-location of operations centers. This paper highlights the concerns to be addressed before adopting one of these paths to the future. For the covering abstract see ITRD E134653.
Samenvatting