National ITS Architecture Evolution and Support

Added: Jul 29, 2011 1:49 pm

The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has a requirement (National ITS Architecture Evolution and Support), to support the National Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Architecture evolution and a portion of the ITS research program administered by the ITS Joint Program Office (JPO). 

The contractor will provide support to the U.S. DOT by ensuring that the National ITS Architecture is maintained and updated to reflect all changes, additions, modifications, and corrections required for sustaining the National ITS Architecture.  The contractor will ensure the National ITS Architecture remains current and inclusive throughout the development of new research programs and will ensure appropriate elements are integrated into the National ITS Architecture.  The contractor will ensure appropriate changes from the ITS Standards Program are integrated into the National ITS Architecture.

The overall objectives of this contract is to:

 1.      Support and manage the evolution of the National ITS Architecture to include changes due to deployment experiences, changes in requirements, and changes due to results from public and private sector ITS research programs and initiatives that will be integrated into the national transportation system and the National ITS Architecture.

2.      Assist the U.S. DOT policymakers in defining policy consistent with the National ITS Architecture  and in compliance with applicable surface transportation legislation (currently "SAFETEA-LU") and applicable regulations including but not limited to 23CFR part 940 ("The Architecture Rule").  Ensure that the National ITS Architecture reflects any new federal policies that may be put into effect.

3.      Maintain and upgrade the Turbo Architecture software tool and ensure that it conforms to the latest version of the National ITS Architecture.

4.      Support the mapping of ITS standards to the National ITS Architecture and appropriately support elements of the ITS Standards program to assure that this linkage remains consistent and robust.

5.      Provide ITS deployment support in the transportation planning process at the state, region, and MPO and on occasion, local levels.

6.      Provide technical support in the maintenance and use of regional ITS architectures, and training support in the architecture and systems engineering process to users at the state and local level.

7.      Participate in outreach and training efforts to explain and promote the use of the National ITS Architecture to Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) Resource Centers and division offices; and assist efforts to facilitate the use of the Architecture among state and local planners, implementers, integrators, and manufacturers.

8.      Provide technical support to ITS architecture activities along the United States-Canada border and, to the extent possible, future ITS architecture activities along the United States-Mexico border.  This may be expanded to include other surface transportation and air entry points, including ports.

9.      Support the ITS cooperative systems Engineering Program currently working to define a detailed level ITS architecture for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications-centric ITS, collectively referred to as "V2x cooperative systems" in this document.

10.  Integrate the detailed-level V2x cooperative systems architecture developed as part the ITS cooperative systems Systems Engineering Program into the National ITS Architecture Program; and maintain, upgrade, and enhance the functionality of that ITS architecture in the same manner as the National ITS Architecture.

11.  Participate in international ITS standards and ITS architecture harmonization activities as appropriate to the maintenance and evolution of the National ITS and V2x cooperative systems architectures.