CCIT Projects

EDAPTS, which stands for Efficient Deployment of Advanced Public Transit Systems, is a project aimed at enabling small urban and rural transit agencies in California to provide better services using Advanced Public Transportation Systems (APTS) at a lower life-cycle cost.

This collaborative effort will enable agencies in California to provide their customers real-time parking information and reservation capabilities.

The main purpose of this project is to initiate, facilitate, and actively steer collaboration opportunities and partnership programs between California researchers and practitioners and their French or other international counterparts. Sharing knowledge and resources is susceptible to leverage existing and future investments, and result in outcomes greater than the sum of individual contributions.

This project examines structural and organizational issues that slow down the adoption of innovative transportation technologies by public agencies, and formulates recommendations accordingly. We look at selected case studies to highlight typical hurdles and best practices.

The focus of this Caltrans-sponsored effort is advancing current practices and enabling Caltrans Districts to deploy Portable ATIS as needed to effectively manage non-recurring congestion system wide.

This project studies the effectiveness of ITS field elements (i.e. changeable message signs, highway advisory radio, 511 as well as ramp meters) and assesses the associated tangible/intangible benefits for commuters in order to justify further deployment of additional field elements in the state of California.

This collaborative effort will enable HOV Facility Managers in California to ensure effective operations of High-Occupancy Vehicle (HOV) and High-Occupancy Toll (HOT) facilities using Automated Vehicle Occupancy Verification and Enforcement Systems.

The California-based consortium of Telesaurus LLCs and the related Skybridge nonprofit foundation have acquired FCC radio spectrum licenses throughout the United States for wide-area high-accuracy location, data, voice, and other intelligent transportation systems (ITS) services. CCIT investigated the business case for such wide-area wireless ITS services from a public-policy, technical, and economic perspective.

The potential of cell phones to operate as traffic data collection devices has been considered by the Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) community for several years. With the Mobile Millennium project, researchers have constructed an unprecedented traffic monitoring system capable of fusing GPS data from cell phones with data from existing traffic sensors. It will be accessible to the public via free software that is compatible with Nokia and non-Nokia smartphones.

California Center for Innovative Transportation (CCIT) has implemented a system that provides travelers with travel time messages on Changeable Message Signs (CMS). This system is able to calculate real-time highway driving time as well as train trip time for pre-defined trip itineraries and displays related messages on a network of signs.

This project, nicknamed Mobile Century, tested a novel approach to traffic data collection. Enabled by recent advances in telecommunication technologies, data was collected from GPS-equipped cell phones and turned into relevant traffic information, i.e. travel time.

This project aims to provide technology transfer and deployment support for a mobile barrier device called the Balsi Beam. This barrier was originally designed by Caltrans to protect workers in a closed lane adjacent to traffic.