Intelligent Transportation Systems Strategic Deployment Plan for the Tucson Metropolitan Area

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Intelligent Transportation Systems Strategic Deployment Plan for the Tucson Metropolitan Area

In recent years, policy makers in major urban areas have more and more been coming to the conclusion that they cant build their way out of the ever-increasing congestion that results from the demand for auto travel within metropolitan areas. Limited federal, state and local funds, combined with escalating construction and right-of-way costs, are prompting officials at all levels of government to seek ways to make existing transportation networks operate more efficiently. Compounding the problem is that operating and maintenance costs are consuming up to 70% of available transportation dollars. The greater Tucson metropolitan area (eastern Pima County) is no exception. Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS), formerly Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems, offer public officials, in conjunction with the private sector, a unique and imaginative opportunity to respond to the growing mobility management problem by incorporating the most advanced (and emerging) technologies, many of which are an outgrowth of the nations defense industry. This Strategic Deployment Plan for implementing ITS in the greater Tucson metropolitan area is comprehensive in scope in that it recognizes that the effective deployment of these technologies must be an ongoing process.