The Partnership - ITS Programs

Faster. Safer. Kinder.

California has long recognized the potential of applying advanced electronic, computer and communications technologies to transportation systems to address the significant mobility, environmental and economic challenges in the state and the rest of the nation. By building intelligence into the transportation management infrastructure, putting it in vehicles and giving it to consumers, these efforts will not only make consumer travel and commercial transportation faster and more efficient but also safer and kinder to the environment.

“Intelligent Transportation” Projects in California and around the nation have already demonstrated a broad range of benefits including:

24%-50% reduction in accidents
40% reduction in incident response times
13%-18% reduction in travel times
13%-16% increase in travel speeds
14%-33% decrease in emissions
12%-23% increase in transit on-time performance
91% savings in annual toll collection costs

There are currently 89 ITS Deployment Initiatives underway in California, and The Partnership, on behalf of SCAG, is actively involved with many of them. These include the:

Riverside Transit ITS Project
Transit Management Infrastructure Project
LA-Ventura ATIS Project
Regional Smart Card Project
Smart Streets/Corridors/ATMS Regional Planning

More information on these projects and the other participants that are involved follows. Information on other California initiatives can be found at the CAATS web site.

What we at The Partnership are most excited about, however, is not a project but a reality – TANN the Travel Advisory News Network. TANN real-time traveler information content is now available for commuters online and on PDAs, wireless phones and auto PCs via the services of TANN’s many prestigious Media Affiliates.

TANN’s 1998 origin as a virtual network and business management company was the result of market endorsement of a new and revolutionary business model – a business model that was developed by The Partnership in association with Caltrans. To find out more about the structure, mission, availability and business opportunities of TANN, visit the Network web site at www.tann.com.

Or, if you would like to get an up-to-the-minute report on traffic conditions in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego and many other cities in California and across the country, go directly to TANN’s traffic site at http://traffic.tann.net.

You may request a free color brochure summarizing the concepts of the TANN business model on the Contact Us page of this site.