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The data, standards, and technology behind mobility.

ITS
Intelligent transportation systems
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The live data layer

Desk

Interoperability

NTCIP, TMDD, and the work of getting agency systems to exchange data.

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Explainers

  1. Explainer

    What intelligent transportation systems actually are

    Intelligent transportation systems is a broad label that hides a precise idea. Here is what ITS covers, the architecture that holds it together, and why it is really a data-exchange problem.

  2. Explainer

    How buses talk to traffic lights: transit signal priority

    Transit signal priority lets a late bus ask a traffic signal for a few more seconds of green. Here is the request-to-grant message chain, how it differs from emergency preemption, and how NTCIP 1211 lets mixed-vendor buses and controllers interoperate.