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ITS-JPO Career Opportunity: Transportation Specialist
The Research and Innovation Technology Administration (RITA) is looking for a highly talented Transportation Specialist with a passion for transportation data and analysis to join the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) as the IntelliDrive Data and Weather Program Manager.
This is an opportunity to work on one of the most exciting multimodal programs at the U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT). Located at the U.S. DOT headquarters in Washington, DC, the ITS-JPO manages, coordinates and supports research programs focused on applying advanced technologies to transform the performance of our Nation's surface transportation system.
The vacancy announcement closes on Tuesday, September 13, 2010.
We are seeking a talented transportation leader who can work with all levels of the ITS-JPO staff, high-ranking officials, and others outside the agency to explore the innovative methods of data collection and use of advanced data applications in the transportation environment. A self-starter with expert knowledge of data capture and proven program management principles is a must. Strong coordination and leadership capabilities are needed to be successful in this important role. A mix of strong creativity combined with institutional and technical knowledge is a must. Ability to identify strategic program needs and develop objectives based on Administration and U.S. DOT policy, Congressional direction, and knowledge gained through the national ITS program planning process is required.
The ITS-JPO IntelliDrive Data and Weather Program Manager will manage multimodal programs such as congestion relief, road weather management, and data capture and data management applications to provide technical leadership for state-of-practice and state-of-the-art data collection methods for continuous improvement of our nation’s surface transportation system.
If you know someone interested in this Washington, DC based position that has the experience and proven results in the above requested areas, please encourage them to apply under the attached vacancy announcement. We are looking for a diverse pool of qualified candidates.
Please keep in mind that the new hiring reforms recently announced by President Obama will shorten the hiring timeline and will eliminate essay-style questions during the initial application submission. Therefore please spread the word about this exciting opportunity and encourage anyone interested to apply quickly.
To review the job qualifications and salary details and to apply, please see the vacancy announcement at USAJobs.
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Posted on 01 Sep 2010
Update on ITS-JPO Strategic Plan - A letter from RITA Administrator Peter Appel
Dear Colleagues,
I am pleased to give you an update to the Intelligent Transportation Systems-Joint Program Office (ITS-JPO) Strategic Research Plan which we released at the Transportation Research Board (TRB) annual meeting in January. As you may recall, the plan is aimed at leveraging the power of wireless communications to transform transportation systems to make them safer, greener and more efficient. Since TRB, several events have taken place to move us closer to this vision.
In April, the ITS-JPO released a white paper outlining how this strategic vision will be achieved. You can read the paper at (http://www.its.dot.gov/press/2010/vii2intellidrive.htm). At the ITS America annual meeting in May, Secretary LaHood affirmed his commitment to IntelliDrive. Five USDOT modal administrators and senior DOT officials also affirmed their commitment to the IntelliDrive research plan and its vision of a nationwide wireless information network connecting all vehicles and infrastructure to dramatically enhance safety, mobility and environmental performance. Each administrator explained how wireless technology is being used today to help make cars, trucks, transit systems and even waterways safer.
As you know, the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) is committed to using Dedicated Short Range Communications (DSRC) over the FCC’s 5.9 GHz band for ITS safety applications. This technology allows for secure and reliable high speed transmissions by using low latency short range communications. We see a whole new world of safety applications that will be developed using IntelliDrive’s open standards for vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) and vehicle-to-infrastructure (V2I) communications. These applications will reduce deadly types of crashes through real-time advisories and warnings. Data collected through IntelliDrive will be used for a myriad of mobility applications that will make travel easier and more efficient while maintaining privacy.
DOT could not be more committed to this vision. The commitment comes from the very top – Secretary LaHood – and crosses all transportation modes. The Department’s ITS Strategic Research Plan is focused on conducting the necessary research with stakeholder input and involvement to lay the technical and institutional foundation for this network and to test and prove its potential benefits. This work includes engaging with partners to determine viable strategies for encouraging and accelerating deployment on both the vehicle and infrastructure sides.
We invite you to join us by following developments on the ITS-JPO website, providing inputs to research products and activities, or joining us at an upcoming public meeting. The next few months are critical as we work with stakeholders to develop the system architecture for application development build-outs. We have three stakeholders meetings scheduled between now and the end of the year in Detroit, San Jose and Washington, DC. I encourage you to check the ITS-JPO website for details.
We are committed to continuing to provide information and engage stakeholders throughout the research process. If you have questions about our program or would like to engage directly with our staff, please contact Mike Pina at mike.pina@dot.gov. Thank you for your interest in DOT’s ITS program.
Peter Appel
Administrator
Research and Innovative Technology Administration
Posted on 18 Aug 2010
ITS Program Advisory Committee Memo to USDOT
The reconstituted ITS Program Advisory Committee had its first meeting on April 7, 2010 at USDOT HQ in Washington. The meeting provided an opportunity for the committee members to meet each other and to give everyone a sense of what the views of various committee members are in the ITS domain. Further the committee had the opportunity to be briefed on the current status of the ITS program at JPO and to be introduced to the new RITA leadership, Administrator Peter Appel and Deputy Administrator Robert Bertini.
The ITS Advisory Committee has published an advisory memo that outlines key points and observations from this meeting. Click here to access the memo.
Posted on 16 Aug 2010
ITS-JPO Announces three FREE IntelliDrive(SM) meetings for Inventors
Inventors who have developed a software component, hardware device or other technology that can be used to help bring about safe, efficient, greener transportation should attend these first-ever IntelliDriveSM inventors meetings where innovators can meet others who might be looking for new technologies.
The meetings will be held at the end of the first day of the ITS-JPO Systems Engineering User Workshops in:
- Detroit (August 25)
- San Jose (September 1)
- Washington, DC (September 29)
The meetings will run from 5:30pm to 8:30pm. Innovators can make a very brief presentation about their work and meet with potential users of their products. Interested innovators who want to attend and/or make a presentation at the meeting should register in advance.
Please send an e-mail with the inventor’s name, company, product and contact information to Delores Colbert at Delores.colbert@DOT.gov in order to obtain a five minute presentation slot. Presentations should be no more than three PowerPoint slides. Please put the words “Inventors Meeting” and which location (Detroit, San Jose or Washington, DC) in the subject line.
The IntelliDrive Inventors meetings are being held in conjunction with the IntelliDrive User Needs Workshops being held in Detroit, San Jose and Washington, DC.
- To learn more about the FREE workshops click here: http://www.its.dot.gov/press/2010/intellidrive_user_workshop.htm
- To learn more about the inventors meetings please e-mail Mike Pina at Mike.pina@dot.gov
- To learn more about ITS-JPO and the IntelliDrive program log on to www.its.dot.gov.
Hotel space is limited. Be sure to reserve your room under the room block "IntelliDrive" in order to receive the government rate.
Detroit
Doubletree Hotel Detroit/Dearborn
5801 Southfield Expressway
Detroit, MI 48228
313-336-3340
http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/DTTDBDT-Doubletree-Hotel-Dearborn-Michigan/index.do
San Jose
Doubletree Hotel San Jose
2050 Gateway Place
San Jose, CA 95110
408-453-4000
http://doubletree1.hilton.com/en_US/dt/hotel/JOSE-DT-Doubletree-Hotel-San-Jose-California/index.do
Washington DC
Hotel TBD
Please contact Brei Whitty at ITS America at bwhitty@itsa.org or 202-721-4236 for any questions related to registration for the user needs workshops or hotel accommodations.
Posted on 10 Aug 2010
Federal Register Notice (Aug. 9, 2010) - Request for Information: IntelliDrive(SM) Performance Measurement and Performance-Based Management Demonstrations
This notice is a Request for Information (RFI) and comments that will be used to help refine the plans for one or more demonstrations focused on the use of IntelliDriveSM data sources for performance measurement and performance-based management.
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) is issuing this RFI in collaboration with and on behalf of other agencies within the DOT, specifically the Federal Transit Administration, the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration, and the Research and Innovative Technology Administration.
Feedback and comments on any aspect of the RFI are welcomed from all interested public, private, and academic entities. While all feedback is welcomed, DOT is particularly interested in feedback on the questions provided in the last section of this RFI.
RFI Guidelines: Responses to this RFI should be submitted by 11:59 p.m. Eastern Time on September 8, 2010. Responses to this RFI should be delivered electronically as an e-mail or as an attachment to an e-mail sent to DMAdemo@dot.gov.
Click here to read the entire RFI Notice: HTML or PDF.
Posted on 09 Aug 2010
Federal Register Notice - ITS Joint Program Office IntelliDrive(SM) Task Force Meeting
Federal Register Notice
August 3, 2010
Volume 75, Number 148
AGENCY: Research & Innovative Technology Administration (RITA), Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS), U.S. Department of Transportation.
ACTION: Notice.
The USDOT Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) Joint Program Office will hold a meeting with the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) IntelliDrive Task Force on August 10 and 11, 2010 during the ITE's Annual meeting at the Vancouver Convention and Exhibit Center, 1055 Canada Place, Vancouver, BC V6C 0C3, Canada.
The purpose of the meeting is to review various aspects of the IntelliDrive research program and to obtain stakeholder input on user needs for the definition of the core IntelliDrive System. The ITE IntelliDrive Task Force represents transportation engineering professionals from the public and private sectors.
The meeting is open to the public at no charge (public attendees do not need to register for the ITE meeting). However please RSVP your intent to attend to Delores Colbert at delores.colbert@dot.gov and include the following in the subject line: ITE IntelliDrive Task Force Meeting.
Following is the meeting preliminary agenda: Day one; ITE IntelliDrive Task Force Committee Business, IntelliDrive mobility program summary, IntelliDrive safety program policy research roadmap, IntelliDrive infrastructure deployment scenarios research, and IntelliDrive systems engineering research project overview. Day two; IntelliDrive systems engineering user needs gathering exercise.
Information about the IntelliDrive research program is available at: http://www.its.dot.gov/index.htm. Additional opportunities to provide input to the IntelliDrive systems engineering research program are available on August 25-26, 2010 in Detroit, MI (9-4:30 local time) and September 1-2, 2010 in San Jose, CA (9-4:30 local time). Information is available at: http://www.its.dot.gov/press/2010/intellidrive_user_workshop.htm. Issued in Washington, DC, on the 28th day of July 2010.
Linda Dodge
Chief of Staff, ITS Joint Program Office.
[FR Doc. 2010-18992 Filed 8-2-10; 8:45 am]
Click here to download the PDF version of the Federal Register Notice.
Posted on 05 Aug 2010
Public Meeting Announcement - U.S. DOT's Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety System (IVBSS) Initiative
October 20, 2010
Eagle Crest Conference Center, Ypsilanti, MI
The U.S. Department of Transportation (U.S. DOT) will host a one-day public meeting on October 20, 2010 to provide a final report on the Integrated Vehicle-Based Safety System (IVBSS) program to members of the vehicle safety research community and other interested parties. The meeting will be held at Eagle Crest Conference Center in Ypsilanti, MI.
This final public meeting of the IVBSS program will provide attendees an opportunity to hear from U.S. DOT and IVBSS team members as they discuss the results of two field operational tests totaling more than 900K miles of data; one run with commercial trucks and the other run with lay drivers and passenger vehicles.
Meeting Details
Registration
As a result of limitations on meeting room size, advance registration for this meeting is required. You may register online by clicking here. The deadline for all online meeting registration is October 15, 2010.
The registration fee is $75 (U.S.) until October 1, and $100 thereafter. Payment is required with registration. Accepted forms of credit card payment include Visa, MasterCard, and American Express. For more information on meeting registration, contact Michelle Dieter at mdieter@umich.edu or 734.764.4158.
Accommodations
Registered meeting attendees are responsible for reserving their own accommodations at the Marriott at the Eagle Crest Resort and Conference Center, located at 1275 S. Huron Street, Ypsilanti, MI 48197. For more information, visit the hotel’s website or call 734.487.2000.
Meals and Incidentals
Breakfast, lunch, and break refreshments will be provided.
Click here to register and for additional details.
Posted on 02 Aug 2010
FedBizOpps Request for Information Notice - Research on Applications for the Environment: Real-Time Information Synthesis (AERIS)
This is a Request for Information (RFI). It is NOT a solicitation for proposals (RFP) or proposal abstracts. The purpose of this request is to obtain information from the public sector, private sector and academic communities, for planning purposes, on:
- Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) applications that can make use of IntelliDrive data and resources to improve environmental performance;
- Capture and management of realtime IntelliDrive data relevant to environmental applications development and performance measurement; and
- Evaluation techniques, performance measurement, and technologies to capture environmentally-relevant data.
Unless information submitted in response to this RFI is marked proprietary, it will be made publicly available on the AERIS (Applications for the Environment: Real-Time Information Synthesis) website (http://www.intellidriveusa.org/research/aeris.php) so that valuable research information is easily accessible and proactively shared among the public and private sectors and academic communities.
The Government will make every effort to protect information that is marked as Proprietary. All information obtained as a result of this RFI, whether proprietary or not may be used by the U.S. Government for program planning on a non-attribution basis.
Responses to this request are not offers and cannot be accepted by the Government to form a binding contract. Additionally, the U.S. Government will not provide reimbursement for any information that may be submitted in response to this RFI. Respondents are solely responsible for all expenses associated with responding to this RFI. Click here for more details.
Click here to download the RFI.
Posted on 21 Jul 2010
Save the Date: USDOT Announces IntelliDrive(SM) Systems Engineering User Needs Workshops
Attend one of two FREE workshops the U.S. Department of Transportation's (USDOT) Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS-JPO), part of the Research and Innovative Technology Administration (RITA) will be hosting on IntelliDriveSM Systems Engineering User Needs to obtain stakeholder input for the definition of the core IntelliDrive System. User needs identified during these workshops will be critical to the development of the new IntelliDrive Concept of Operations (ConOps). The ConOps will describe the vision for how the IntelliDrive system will work, from the perspective of the user.
- August 25-26, 2010 - Detroit, MI, USA (9:00-4:30 local time)
- September 1-2, 2010 - San Jose, CA, USA (9:00-4:30 local time)
Each workshop, which is open to all interested transportation parties, will engage participants to identify their current vision for the IntelliDrive system. These workshops will provide an overview of the IntelliDrive concept definition process and include break out groups to explore specific operational needs in detail as well as concluding sessions that summarizes the findings from the workshops.
The agenda features:
Wednesday
9:00-4:30 local time
Overview of the IntelliDrive concept definition process
Thursday
9:00-4:30 local time
Breakout Sessions to explore specific operation needs in detail & a summary of workshop findings
The sessions and your participation are essential in assisting the ITS-JPO to advance transportation safety. We look forward to seeing you at one of these events! If you cannot attend, please pass this along to an interested colleague.
Please continue to check the IntelliDrive website, http://www.intellidriveusa.org, for further details and workshop updates as they become available.
Registration and Venue:
This workshop is free of charge. Registration and venue information will be posted on the IntelliDrive website in the coming weeks. Additional information will be available at the ITS-JPO website: http://www.its.dot.gov/index.htm.
Click here to download the one-page flyer [PDF 38.5KB]
Posted on 16 Jul 2010
FedBizOpps presolicitation notice for the aftermarket “Here I Am” device procurement and bidder’s conference
The Federal Highway Administration (FHWA) has a requirement for the development and production of aftermarket devices to use in vehicles for generating "Here I Am" messages to other vehicles and other devices. These devices will support vehicle to vehicle (V2V) and vehicle to infrastructure (V2I) safety communications capability. The devices will produce dedicated short range communications at 5.9 GHz.
All interested parties shall submit their offer in accordance with the solicitation, which is anticipated to be released within the next day. The solicitation and all related documents and amendments to the solicitation, if any, will be released and available electronically through the Federal Business Opportunities (FBO) website at https://www.fbo.gov/.
Interested parties can register at the aforementioned site to receive procurement announcements by email. Since the solicitation is only available electronically, it is the responsibility of interested parties to monitor the FBO website for any solicitation amendments. All responsible sources are encouraged to submit an offer. The awards resulting from this solicitation will be made to the offerors whose offers conform to the solicitation and represent the best value to the Government.
The Government anticipates making up to 10 awards as a result of the solicitation. This requirement will be awarded on an unrestricted basis and is a simplified acquisition, pursuant to Federal Acquisition Regulation Part 13. All awards will be under the simplified acquisition threshold.
- Request for Quotations, No. DTFH61-10-Q-00164 (PDF - 211KB)
- Appendix A to DTFH61-10-Q-00164 (PDF - 184KB)
Posted on 16 Jul 2010
