ITS

ITS (Intelligent Transportation Systems) involves the use of computer and electronic technology to improve the safety and efficiency of our transportation system. The use of ITS in Southeast Michigan is not new. Examples currently in use are the changeable freeway message signs, coordinated signal system of the Road Commission for Oakland County, and automated toll collection for commercial vehicles at the American and Canadian border crossings.

An essential next step in using ITS technology is linking the systems together so that information from one system can be passed along to another. The Regional ITS Architecture for Southeast Michigan is the blueprint providing for orderly, timely, and cost-efficient integration of ITS technologies over the next 20 years. It is also an overarching framework for discussing transportation needs and how these needs might be met by ITS. The stakeholders involved in developing the architecture include traffic, transit, public safety, customs, and other operating agencies at the local, county, state, and national levels, including public and private.

Southeast Michigan Regional ITS Architecture.