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Intelligent

Transportation Systems for

Airports

Intelligent Devices, Inc 4411 Suwanee Dam Rd, Suite 510

Suwanee, Ga 30024 Phone: 770.831.3370

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AIRPORT INTELLIGENT TRANSPORTATION SYSTEMS ( ITS), INCLUDING PARKING GUIDANCE AND INCIDENT MANGEMENT Executive Overview: All major airports have similar needs with regard to traffic management in the airport surroundings, as follows:

• Traffic congestion is always a factor in the airport access roads. In particular, parking problems and traffic incidents are major contributing factors in airport congestion.

• The lack of intelligent parking guidance results in increased re-circulation and delays, while the motorist searches for a parking space.

• Incidents may be triggered by vehicle activity (such as an accident on an access road), maintenance (a road being dug up) or external factors (such as a national or terminal emergency). These incidents require incident management to alert the public, as well as to guide the operators in the activities required to manage the incidents.

All the above needs are met with the appropriate application of Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) technologies. This guide provides the important factors to consider when applying ITS to airport environments. What are the benefits of Intelligent Transportation Systems to Airport stakeholders? Travelers: Better informed about incidents and delays in the airport, reduced time looking for parking, and reduced frustration at delays. Venue Operators: Increase in customer satisfaction, increased ability to detect, verify and manage incidents. Parking Operators: Increased space occupancy, and increased revenue Environmental: Reduced air pollution, reduced congestion, reduced illegal parking. Technologies used in Airport Intelligent Transportation Systems The following technologies are typically used in airport ITS systems. These will be tailored to suit the requirements of the particular airport.

1) Dynamic Message Signs. Electronic signs are used to provide incident information, congestion information, detours, as well as parking guidance information.

2) Parking Guidance: A combination of sensors, signs and electronic indicators are used to guide the motorist from the freeway to the car park, then to the floor, then the aisle and finally to the vacant bay.

3) Cameras: CCTV systems are used to provide security, as well as incident verification.

4) Sensors: Traffic sensors placed on the various roadways provide information about congestion, which is then displayed to the operator.

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5) Central Software System: A computer system provides an interface for operators to:

a. Manage incidents as they occur, including implementing response plans and placing messages on the electronic signs.

b. Manage the parking process, including the parking reservations process.

c. Monitor and manage traffic congestion. d. Data logging for reporting and analysis, for future system

improvement.

Approach to Johannesburg Airport, showing parking availability with NTCIP

conformant signs The Importance of Standards in Intelligent Transportation Systems Implementation Typically, ITS systems will be deployed at an airport in a number of phases over several years. It is very important for success of the overall system that field devices, communication systems and computer software all conform to the same set of Standards. The applicable standards are the open, internationally accepted set of standards called NTCIP (National Transportation Communication for ITS Protocol).

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Provided that devices and systems are properly tested for conformance against the standards, then these systems will enjoy the following advantages:

• Signs and other ITS devices (cameras, sensors) can be purchased “off-the-shelf” via open bid from a number of vendors.

• Standard “off-the-shelf” ITS software can be purchased from a number of vendors and system integrators.

• The adoption of the standards allows a phased approach. The airport may add signs, sensors, cameras and parking guidance over a number of phases, with the assurance that they will all work together.

• This approach reduces deployment time and cost by eliminating (or at least reducing) custom development.

• Airports increasingly will make significant investment in ITS systems. If an open standards approach is adopted then the investment will protected by not being dependent on proprietary interests, as future development and support for the system will not be dependent on one company.

Typical Bay Sensor parking guidance installation, with individual bay indicators

(Spot the single open bay!)

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Case Study 1: Implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems at OR Tambo International Airport, Johannesburg, South Africa OR Tambo International Airport has taken the first steps to implementing an ITS system. Phase 1 of an Intelligent Parking system, with individual bay sensors and indicators, has been successfully implemented. The stakeholder (operators and public) perception and feedback to this deployment has been very positive. As part of this implementation, an integrated software suite has been deployed in the operations room, which includes Intelligent Parking (the parking guidance software), Intelligent Control (sign, camera, traffic sensor and device monitoring and control software) and Intelligent Incident (incident management software). In this first phase, Intelligent Parking has been implemented and set to work. Importantly, the software and systems that have been installed all conform to the open, internationally recognized NTCIP standards, so that the additional ITS deployments can be undertaken on a “plug and play” basis.

Approach to JF Kennedy Airport in New York, showing incident and traffic

information on NTCIP conformant signs Case Study 2: Implementation of Intelligent Transportation Systems at JF Kennedy Airport, New York JF Kennedy Airport is completing the implementation of an ITS system, based on the open, internationally recognized NTCIP standards. A total of 50 electronic signs have been installed, from two different manufacturers under three different procurements, of ten different sizes. The Central Software, from Intelligent Devices, has integrated the control of these different signs without any custom code. This has demonstrated the power of the standards, as the installation of a further 20 signs is progressing, under yet another procurement, with the confidence that these new signs will be integrated without any software change.

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The focus of this ITS system is on incident management, and the prompt supply of information to the public.

Intelligent Control user interface, showing incident and traffic information with

NTCIP conformant signs