A team from the engineering faculty at the University of Massachusetts in Amherst has been involved in ITS related research projects from which ITS topics, concepts, applications, and results will be culled and incorporated into six courses. These courses will be offered primarily to senior undergraduate engineering students and engineering graduate students who are interested in advanced transportation innovations and who are considering the transportation profession. The laboratory will be employed to conduct course exercises for the illustration of ITS concepts and principles and to investigate new applications of ITS methods and technologies by integrating current research with advanced communications and computing capabilities. A major aim of this paper is to present several of these exercises in terms of their objective and scope. These exercises focus on automated video travel time surveys, automated vehicle location systems in public transit, and advanced parking management systems.
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