Overview
This document is a guide for transportation professionals who are involved in the development, use, or maintenance of regional ITS architectures. The document describes a process for creating a regional ITS architecture with supporting examples of each architecture product. In its discussion of the uses of the regional ITS architecture, the document presents an approach for mainstreaming ITS into the transportation planning and project development processes.
The guidance is structured around the process shown in Figure ES-1. Within the document, section 2 provides an overview of the process and sections 3 through 6 describe the regional ITS architecture development process in detail. Regional ITS architecture use is discussed in section 7 and maintenance of the architecture is discussed in section 8.