The United States Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Institute of Transportation Engineers (ITE) along with their standards development partners have worked on Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) standards since the inception of the ITS Standards Program over 20 years ago. In recent years traditional ITS technologies have been a key enabler supporting the integration of multimodal and accessible forms of transportation with more established forms of public sector transportation. Multimodal and Accessible Transportation (MAT) use cases and systems tend to incorporate a wide range of transportation options – walking, bicycling, e-scooters, wheelchairs, and other, which tend to utilize the roadways and public ways (i.e., sidewalks) but in a manner that could expose travelers to greater vulnerabilities (hence, referred to as Vulnerable Road Users or VRUs).
A necessary next step for the USDOT and ITE is working with the multimodal community to survey existing standards and how these standards can support ongoing and future ITS implementations. Additionally, ensuring that the security needs of the multimodal transportation system and VRUs are addressed in both standards and ITS deployments is critical to the safety and security of those users. USDOT previously had a MAT Standards project that produced a MAT Standards and VRU Cybersecurity Coordination Plan which this project is expected to build on. This project is to define and implement critical activities to better address ongoing convergence of ITS technologies with multimodal and accessible transportation and the future integration of new innovative forms of MAT.
The objective of this project is to continue the work, started under the MAT Standards project, to address plan for and execute on development of the near-term necessary standards with a focus on ensuring appropriate interoperability to make MAT experience seamless and secure for users. Further, correct interpretation and adoption includes describing a common understanding of the underlying governance processes that may be by Federal, State, regional, or local in nature and are likely multi-disciplinary.
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Task No. |
Standard/Document Name |
Overall Status- Not Started/ Under Development / Published |
Date Completed |
| Task 5 | MAT Technical Brief or Presentation (draft, final) | Not Started | |
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Task 4 |
Memo on Operational Readiness Framework (ORF) Case Studies | Not Started | |
| ORF Stakeholders Outreach Plan | |||
| ORF Best Practices Report | |||
| Update ORF Fact Sheet | |||
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Task 3.3 |
Draft and Final White Paper on Standards requiring SE | ||
| Draft, Walkthrough Workbook and Final ConOps | |||
| Walkthrough Resolution Report | |||
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Task 3.2 |
MAT/VRU Development / System Engineering (SE) Plan for 3 MAT/VRU Standards | Not Started | |
| Concept of Operations (ConOps) with mapping to Reference ITS Architecture (Draft-walkthrough workbook and Final) | |||
| ConOps Walkthrough Resolution Report | |||
| System Requirements (Draft. Walkthrough Workbook, and Final) | |||
| System Requirements walkthrough Resolution Report | |||
| Standards Stakeholder / Technical Engagement Plan | |||
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Task 3.1 |
Completion and update of phase 1 MAT/VRU use case White Papers (Eligibility, PROW, RSD and VRU) | ||
| New MAT/VRU Use Case White Papers | |||
| White Paper on Specification vs Standards | |||
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Task 2.2 |
Industry Consortia Outreach & Coordination Plan | Not Started | |
| MAT Industry Consortia Technical Notes | |||
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Task 2.1 |
MAT/VRU Standards Committee Management | Not Started | |
| MAT/VRU Standards Committee Action Plan (Draft) | Published | 01/03/2024 | |
| MAT/VRU Standards Committee Charter (Draft) | Published | 01/03/2024 | |
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Task 1 |
Project Management Plan (PMP) | Published | 11/9/2023 |
| Published | 11/9/2023 | ||
| Period of Performance (POP) | 10/09/2023-10/08/2025 |