Digital infrastructure supports information exchange among public and private users and owners and operators of the roadway system. It consists of:
- Information sensing, communications, processing, and storage used and located within public roads and at associated centers, and
- The business models, agreements, organizational and institutional arrangements and processes that support operation of those systems
- Enables management of the transportation system, including the pursuit of safety, efficiency, mobility, equity and other objectives of system operators and users
The TRB Road Digital Infrastructure Task Group will focus on research needs development and stakeholder engagement related to the future of roadway digital infrastructure by harnessing multiple perspectives across the TRB committee structure. The RDI Task Force will coordinate with TRB, government and industry partners to develop and refresh a RDI strategic research program that includes technical as well as institutional and policy aspects of digital roadway infrastructure. The outcome will be to help facilitate national implementation by adopting a RDI vision and prioritizing research objectives around critical cross-cutting issues and grand challenges that advance that vision.
Accomplishments and Activities:
- 2024:
- Developed mission statement and plan
- Linked disparate research and deployment perspectives into common cause
- A lively dialog “co-learning” environment
- Developing document on RDI deployment plan
- Assisted in planning for ARTS 2024 RDI session
- Planning for an invite-only charette of international experts understand research opportunities to realized roles, goals and solutions to ensure national RDI advancement. Challenges to be addressed
- Data sources, use cases, consumers
- National capabilities
- Use cases and strategies from other sectors to benefit traffic management
- Short- and long-term approaches for financially feasible, sustainable RDI deployment
- 2025:
- Analyze and disseminate research needs based on Charette of key global RDI leaders conducted at TRBAM 2025
- Continue the productive dialog
- Define research needs
- Determine cogent program(s)
- Work in concert with TRB and other organizations deploying RDI to facilitate the research-to-deployment component
Co-Leads: John Corbin, FHWA, Office of Operations (john.corbin@dot.gov); Jim Misener, Qualcomm Technologies, Inc. (jmisener@qti.qualcomm.com)
Volunteers: Khalil Alafeef; Gonzalo Alcaraz; Greg Barlow; Sheryl Bradley; Matthew Burt; Danielle Chou; John Contestabile; Aaron Costin; Adrian Cottam; Sara Davidson; Stephanie Dock; Timothy Drake; James Fishelson; Deepak Gopalakrishna; David Howard; Athena Hutchins; Matt Junak; Virginia Lingham; Jiaqi Ma; Michelle Maggiore; Jagannath Mallela; Jon Obenberger; Anthony Patire; Christopher Poe; Peter Rafferty; Amber Reimnitz; Gunnar Rhone; Valerie Shuman; Patrick Son; Dajiang Suo; David Willauer; Janneke van der Zee