InLine Part of Winning Team Awarded ITS America Best in Show for Innovation in ITS -
Reconnecting Mississippi's Coastal Communities Through ITS
Every year, ITS America honors the most innovative, effective, and influential achievements in the Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) industry by presenting awards to organizations whose projects have demonstrated specific and measurable outcomes and exemplified innovation. The awards were presented this year during a special ceremony of the ITS America Annual Meeting and Exposition held in conjunction with the 15th World Congress on ITS in New York. The categories included: Best New Innovative Practices Category, Best New Innovative Product or Service Category, and Outstanding State Chapter.
Mississippi DOT - Reconnecting Mississippi's Coastal Communities Through ITS
As Mississippians began clearing the wreckage and rebuilding their communities after Hurricane Katrina, the Mississippi Department of Transportation (DOT) immediately embarked on a plan to rebuild U.S. Highway 90 along the state’s coastline. For Mississippi DOT, the emphasis was not just on replacing what had been, but taking the opportunity to build back better than before. For a constrained corridor that could not be widened, this meant engaging local jurisdictions in a collaborative partnership to build smarter with ITS elements maximizing the corridor’s capacity. The plan would bring state-of-the-art traffic management capabilities along the 43-mile corridor with 54 signalized intersections spanning six cities and two counties. A huge challenge and yet a huge opportunity, Mississippi DOT worked not just to replace what was destroyed, but make use of the latest and most appropriate ITS technologies to meet existing and future transportation needs for U.S. 90 and the region.
MDOT, faced with a seemingly insurmountable challenge between the devastation of the storm and the fact that Highway 90 could not be widened to accommodate the ever growing traffic demands of this corridor, turned to InLine to provide a Design-Build Solution for an Intelligent Transportation System (ITS) that would enable real-time traffic monitoring and incident management as well as a number of other applications including Video Detection Systems (VDS) and Adaptive Signal Control (ASC) along this corridor allowing more vehicles to travel safely down the same road space in an efficient manner. This system also enables these communities to provide telecommunication services to other agencies or connect camera and ITS elements to other highways, interstates, or arterial streets through the regional area.
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