[UCI-Calit2] REMINDER: Upcoming Lecture -- ITS Technologies and Institutional Issues: Some Ideas for Accelerating Deployment of Effective Systems

Anna Lynn Spitzer aspitzer at rgs.uci.edu
Tue Jan 10 15:03:46 PST 2006


REMINDER

 

Title:                                       ITS Technologies and
Institutional Issues: Some Ideas for Accelerating Deployment of
Effective Systems

 

Speaker:                               Joseph M. Sussman, JR East
Professor, Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and
Engineering Systems, MIT

 

Time:                                     3 p.m.

 

Date:                                      Thursday, Jan. 12

 

Location:                              Calit2 Building, Room 3008, UCI

 

Abstract:                               The technologies that support
intelligent transportation systems (ITS) including sensing, computing,
communications and advanced algorithms provide enormous opportunity for
enhancing surface transportation in California, the U.S. and the world.
However, the deployment of these technologies has been slower than some
advocates would hope, mainly because of a number of institutional
factors that constrain their adoption and effective use. This talk will
identify some of the key institutional factors constraining ITS
deployment, and explore how a parallel consideration of the
technological opportunities and the institutional context can enable us
to make more progress. The CLIOS Process, as a new way of thinking about
ITS and the strategic alternatives we have before us - both
technological and institutional - will be presented.

 

 

Bio:                                        Dr. Joseph M. Sussman is the
JR East Professor (endowed by the East Japan Railway Co.) in the
Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering and the Engineering
Systems Division at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT),
where he has served as a faculty member for 37 years.   He is the author
of  "Introduction to Transportation Systems," a graduate text, in use at
a number of universities in the U.S. and abroad.  His book "Perspectives
on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS)" was published in 2005.
Sussman received the Roy W. Crum Distinguished Service Award from TRB,
its highest honor, "for significant contributions to research" in 2001,
and the CUTC Award for Distinguished Contribution to University
Transportation Education and Research from the Council of University
Transportation Centers in 2003. 

Sussman specializes in the study of "Complex, Large-Scale, Integrated,
Open Systems" (CLIOS), working in many applications areas, and has
developed the CLIOS process.   He has worked extensively on Intelligent
Transportation Systems (ITS), helping to build the U.S. national
program.  He was the program chair of the ITS America Annual Meeting in
2000, and has conducted short courses in ITS for practicing
professionals in the 

U. S. and abroad.  In 2002, ITS Massachusetts named its annual "Joseph
M. Sussman Leadership Award" in his honor. 

 

 

Additional Information:
http://www.calit2.net/events/popup.php?id=666

 

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