| Project Title: |
ADVANCE CORRIDOR TRANSPORTATION INFORMATION CENTER |
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| Project Status: | In Progress | |
| Project Type: |
Other |
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| Project Description: | ADVANCE (Advanced Driver and Vehicle Advisory Navigation Concept) was an operational test designed to evaluate the performance of a large-scale in-vehicle navigation and dynamic route guidance system. Vehicles used in this project served as probes, providing real-time traffic information to a Traffic Information Center (TIC). Upon completion of the operational test, the ADVANCE Steering Committee concurred in the further development and modification of the ADVANCE TIC (application phase of ADVANCE) so it can serve as a prototype Corridor Transportation Information Center (C-TIC) for information dissemination efforts for the Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee (GCM) ITS Priority Corridor. Presently, real time information is available for portions of the system in Illinois and Wisconsin. Information on daily lane closures on the entire expressway system is already available at the C-TIC. Real time information on incidents from *999 (a cellular phone based motorist aid system), Illinois State Police-District 15 and Northwest Central Dispatch (a regional seven community 911 computer aided dispatch system) is automatically entered into the C-TIC. A prototype of the Illinois State Toll Highway Authority I-PASS advanced traffic management system has been developed to provide travel time information for I-355 as part of the C-TIC effort and expansion of this system to the entire tollway network is currently underway. In 2001 the C-TIC transitioned to the new Gateway Traveler Information System. The Gateway system consists of a central Gateway Hub and the Illinois, Indiana, and Wisconsin Gateway Hubs to provide multi-modal, real time transportation information to operators and users of the transportation system serving the three-state GCM corridor. | |
| Project Location: | Northeastern Illinois | |
| Project Partner(s): | Indiana DOT, Illinois DOT, Wisconsin DOT, Illinois State Toll Highway Authority (ISTHA) | |
| Project Start Date: | October 1996 | |
| Project End Date: | June 2005 | |
| Estimated Total ITS Funds: | $10,969,957 | |
| Estimated Total Project Cost: | $13,594,614 |
| Project Contacts: | ||
Dean Mentjes |
FHWA Illinois Division, HPP-IL |
(217) 492-4631 |
Ext. |
Dave Zavattero |
Illinois DOT |
(847) 705-4800 |
Ext. |