Spotlight on Automated Vehicle Program, the 2022 ITS Project of the Year
Posted by Outreach on Nov. 17, 2022 / ITS Project of the Year, Member News, Annual Meeting / Subscribe 0
In 2022 we had two outstanding nominees for the ITS Midwest Project of the Year. The winner is the Automated Vehicle Roadmap by The Ohio Department of Transportation, Drive Ohio and the Automated Vehicle Pool Fund Study. Congratulations!
Nick Hegemier (DriveOhio) receives on behalf of ODOT, DriveOhio and the Automated Vehicle Pool Fund Study the 2022 ITS Midwest “Project of the Year” award from Tom Szabo (ITS Midwest's Nominations and Awards Committee Chair, right).
“Automated Vehicle Roadmap”
by ODOT, DriveOhio and the Automated Vehicle Pool Fund Study
This winning project included development of an Automated Vehicle Roadmap organizing activities into Seven (7) pillars and Sixteen (16) programs. Milestones were created for each program and then organized into a pathway for programs to build upon each other. This is meant to organize activities to reduce duplicative efforts.
This project was initiated with the development of a State of the Practice. The State of the Practice provides an analysis of the primary AV market sectors: passenger, goods movement and transit, and market sector activity across testing, pilot, and deployment stages. Subsequently, AV PFS members helped develop the Program Plan and Program Roadmap that identify focus areas that can be influenced by IOOs (Program Pillars) and Program goals that address the foremost AV-related challenges and needs for IOOs. The Program Roadmap provides Milestones that indicate progress towards achieving each Program, as well as the interdependencies across Milestones.
The full report can be found at:
Automated Vehicle Pool Fund Study report
Second Finalist Project
“Pay by Plate” by Illinois Tollway
The second finalist project is Pay By Plate service from the Illinois Tollway. The Illinois Tollway’s Pay By Plate service allows customers without I-PASS or E-ZPass to conveniently pay unpaid tolls for travel anywhere on the 294-mile Tollway system in Northern Illinois. Built on the Tollway’s I-PASS back-office system, customers enter their license plate and payment information online and the service will automatically identify unpaid tolls and deduct payment from the customer on a weekly basis and offer the same account functionality and services provided to I-PASS customers.
Customers can set up the service prior to travel or within the Tollway’s 14-day grace period to pay tolls and avoid additional fees and fines. The service also provides a payment solution for drivers temporarily renting or leasing vehicles, as well as for drivers managing multiple vehicles.
Introduced in 2020 as the Tollway transitioned to a cashless system, Pay By Plate use has grown to more than 2.8 million accounts and, in 2021, the more than 20 million Pay By Plate transactions represented about 18% of the 112 million transactions by non-I-PASS customers using the Tollway system. About 88% of the 936 million total transactions in 2021 were from customers paying with I-PASS or E-ZPass.
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