High Plains ITS Coalition to Develop Multi-State Information Network

The High Plains ITS Coalition, an alliance of transportation agencies in Colorado, Kansas, Missouri, Nebraska, Utah, and Wyoming, is developing a system to share travel and other information across a broad area of rural America.

By Terry Preston

http://www.govtech.net/?pg=news/news&id=91854

The system will:

* Allow state agencies access to up-to-date emergency contact information for each of the participating states;

* Allow state agencies to access detailed information in other participating states, such as data from Roadside Weather Information Systems stations or Dynamic Message System messages;

* Allow state agencies to obtain detailed information on road closures and restrictions, including information that would not be accessible to the public;

* Allow state agencies to exchange information and requests, such as a request to display a particular message on a Dynamic Message System;

* Provide Web-based regional highway maps displaying all alerts and hazards for motor carriers and automobile drivers.

$2,100,000 is needed to fully develop the system. $350,000 has been committed as of October 18, 2004.

For more information contact:

Jaimie Huber
Nebraska Department of Roads
1500 Highway 2, P.O. Box 94759
Lincoln, NE
Phone: 402-479-3875
Fax: 402- 479-4325
[email protected]