Rural Intelligent Transportation Systems

The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), the authorizing legislation for the Nation's surface transportation program, included a provision under Section 5507 for a Rural Interstate Corridor Communications Study. Under this section, "The Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Commerce, State departments of transportation, and other appropriate State, regional, and local officials, shall conduct a study on the feasibility of installing fiber optic cabling and wireless communication infrastructure along multi-state interstate system route corridors for improved communications services to rural communities along such corridors." The Department of Transportation was directed to identify the "impediments" to installing such an infrastructure and "to connecting such infrastructure to the rural communities along such corridors." The Department was also directed to identify the potential benefits of such an infrastructure for economic development, deployment of intelligent transportation systems technologies and applications, homeland security precaution and response, and education and health systems in rural communities.

The preliminary findings were submitted in a Report to Congress and subsequent to this report was a Report to States.

Rural Interstate Corridor Communications Study: Report to Congress (August 2007) (HTML, PDF 12MB) - This report explores the potential for the use of rural Interstate highway corridor rights-of-way for the deployment of fiber optic cabling and/or wireless communication infrastructure, across one or multiple States. The study reveals several insights into the issue of how rural Interstates enable greater penetration of high-speed telecommunications infrastructure in rural America.
Rural Interstate Corridor Communications Study: Report to States (February 2009) (HTML, PDF 3.3MB) - This document is the second of two reports that explore the potential for the use of rural Interstate Highway corridor rights-of-way for the deployment of fiber optic cable and/or wireless communication infrastructure, across multiple States linked by the Interstate Highway system. The Report to States, provides a summary of study resources available to the Corridor States to begin the process for possible deployment of high-speed telecommunications (HST) in the corridors in question.

Resources

ITS Joint Program Office Telecommunications Web Site

Contact Us

Steve Clinger
Stephen.Clinger@dot.gov
(202) 366-2168

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Search Operations: Home Architecture Implementation Standards Implementation Systems Engineering Rural ITS Contact Us	Rural Intelligent Transportation Systems Home The Safe, Accountable, Flexible, Efficient Transportation Equity Act: A Legacy for Users (SAFETEA-LU), the authorizing legislation for the Nation's surface transportation program, included a provision under Section 5507 for a Rural Interstate Corridor Communications Study. Under this section, "The Secretary, in cooperation with the Secretary of Commerce, State departments of transportation, and other appropriate State, regional, and local officials, shall conduct a study on the feasibility of installing fiber optic cabling and wireless communication infrastructure along multi-state interstate system route corridors for improved communications services to rural communities along such corridors." The Department of Transportation was directed to identify the "impediments" to installing such an infrastructure and "to connecting such infrastructure to the rural communities along such corridors." The Department was also directed to identify the potential benefits of such an infrastructure for economic development, deployment of intelligent transportation systems technologies and applications, homeland security precaution and response, and education and health systems in rural communities. The preliminary findings were submitted in a Report to Congress and subsequent to this report was a Report to States. Rural Interstate Corridor Communications Study: Report to Congress (August 2007) (HTML, PDF 12MB) - This report explores the potential for the use of rural Interstate highway corridor rights-of-way for the deployment of fiber optic cabling and/or wireless communication infrastructure, across one or multiple States. The study reveals several insights into the issue of how rural Interstates enable greater penetration of high-speed telecommunications infrastructure in rural America. Rural Interstate Corridor Communications Study: Report to States (February 2009) (HTML, PDF 3.3MB) - This document is the second of two reports that explore the potential for the use of rural Interstate Highway corridor rights-of-way for the deployment of fiber optic cable and/or wireless communication infrastructure, across multiple States linked by the Interstate Highway system. The Report to States, provides a summary of study resources available to the Corridor States to begin the process for possible deployment of high-speed telecommunications (HST) in the corridors in question. Resources ITS Joint Program Office Telecommunications Web Site Contact Us Steve Clinger Stephen.Clinger@dot.gov (202) 366-2168 You will need the Adobe Acrobat Reader to view the PDFs on this page.
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