Transportation Seminar Series
Intelligent Transportation Systems: Architecture, Deployment, and Advances
May 7, 2008 (3:00 - 4:00 p.m., IACC 422)
The goal of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) is to improve transportation safety and mobility and enhance the transportation system efficiency through the application of advanced information and communications technology. The ITS Architecture provides a common framework for planning, defining, and integrating transportation systems. The presentation will provide an introduction to ITS and ITS architecture, and will outline North Dakota's ITS architecture experience and current ITS deployments. The presentation will also highlight some national and international exciting cutting edge achievements in the field of ITS, such as Vehicle Infrastructure Integration (VII) along with video demonstrations.
Mohammad Smadi, Upper Great Plains Transportation Institute –
NDSUMohammad Smadi is an Associate Research Fellow with the Advanced Traffic Analysis Center (ATAC), North Dakota State University (NDSU). He is involved in various ITS projects, including North Dakota's Regional ITS Architecture update and maintenance, as well as handling Systems Engineering tasks and participating in the development of project architectures for ITS projects at ATAC. He played a key role in developing North Dakota's statewide ITS architecture, regional architectures in North Dakota's three MPOs, as well as project architecture for a multi-state bridge anti-icing system as part of the Northwest Passage corridor. Mohammad oversees software and web development projects at ATAC, capturing and formulating user requirements and generating designs. He assists local agencies in ITS deployment projects and in performing the required Systems Engineering steps in the deployment process. Mohammad is pursuing a PhD in Software Engineering at NDSU.
