Project Title:   CAPITAL WIRELESS INTEGRATED NETWORK (CapWIN)
     
Project Status:   In Progress
     
Project Type:   Deployment/Integration
     
Project Description:   This project will implement a wireless communications network that serves the core mobile communication functional needs of transportation, law enforcement, fire and EMS in the Washington Metropolitan Region. The network will support multiple in-vehicle platforms. In the second year of the project, transportation and public agency systems and databases will be integrated with a 30-vehicle fleet on the network using multiple mobile data platforms. Vehicles will include State and local police vehicles, service patrols, fire and EMS units.
     
Project Location:   Washington, DC Metropolitan Area
     
Project Partner(s):   FHWA, Maryland State Highway Administration, Virginia DOT, Maryland State Police, Virginia State Police, Washington Metro Police Department
     
Project Start Date:   September 2000
     
Project End Date:   July 2006
     
Estimated Total ITS Funds:   $1,600,000
     
Estimated Total Project Cost:   $3,932,105

Project Contacts:    
     
Breck Jeffers
FHWA Maryland Division, HPT-MD
(410) 962-4342
Ext. 129
Mike Zezeski
Maryland SHA
(410) 787-5605
Jim Robinson
Virginia DOT
(804) 786-6677
Tom Jacobs
University of Maryland
(301) 403-4594



U.S. Department of Transportation, Intelligent Transportation Systems