Strategy 7.1
Statement: Realize Connected Vehicle (CV) Implementation
Description
Realizing Connected Vehicle (CV) implementation builds on the substantial progress made in
recent years around design, testing, and planning for CVs to be deployed throughout the San Diego region and across the Nation. The second, advancing automation, shapes the ITS Program around research, development, and adoption of automation–related technologies as they emerge. The priorities reflect a sense of where the bulk of transportation research and innovation is heading, but are not exclusive of other technologies or research areas.
As our environments become more connected in general, ITS and transportation will play an ever–more important and central role in our cities, towns, suburbs, and rural communities, between regions and across borders. The transportation system as a whole can best serve vital needs when it is using technology to its fullest potential and enabling transportation system managers to effectively "connect the dots" of information from various factors that affect transportation operations (e.g., weather, planned special events, and response to unanticipated emergencies). The priorities, themes, and program categories presented in the national ITS Strategic Plan for ITS provide a structure from which to approach research, development , and adoption of emerging and important technologies.