USDOT ITS4US
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The US Department of Transportation’s ITS4US program aims to “identify ways to provide more efficient, affordable, and accessible transportation options for underserved communities that often face greater challenges in accessing essential services.” The program is led by the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) and supported by the Office of the Secretary (OST), Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), and Federal Transit Administration (FTA). Phase 2 & 3 projects include:
- Health Connector for the Most Vulnerable: An Inclusive Mobility Experience from Beginning to End: using advanced technologies including information and wayfinding services to improve access to healthcare for underserved populations and their caregivers.
- Safe Trips in a Connected Transportation Network: using connected vehicles, transit signal priority, machine learning, and predictive analytics to support safe and complete trips with a focus on accessibility, including a mobile application to help users navigate trips.
- The Transportation Data Equity Initiative: updating and extending data standards for OpenSidewalks, GTFS-Flex, and GTFS-Pathways, developing tools that help agencies, jurisdictions, and other stakeholders collect the data that can be stored with these refined data standards, and using accessible mobility applications to demonstrate different uses of the data.
- Complete Trip Deployment: integrating an accessible trip planning tool with current transit services, indoor/outdoor wayfinding, community-based on-demand shuttle services that include a fleet of fully autonomous shuttles, and intersection pedestrian safety technologies aimed at providing complete trip support to travelers with disabilities.
Webinars, publications, and fact-sheets about the program are available on the ITS4US homepage.