Connected vehicles, automated vehicles, big data—as the nation’s transportation network grows more technical and complex and moves toward integration with smart cities, all elements need to work together in a safe, trusted, interoperable, and efficient manner. The U.S. Department of Transportation (USDOT) and the Intelligent Transportation Systems Joint Program Office (ITS JPO) are working towards ensuring interoperability among vehicles, devices, and infrastructure to support widespread deployment of transportation innovation. The ITS Strategic Plan 2015-2019 identifies Interoperability as one of six key Program Categories that define the research goals for the JPO.
Interoperability is critical for transforming safety in transportation—ensuring that all makes and models of vehicles and devices can interoperate allows for communications about threats and hazards forming in the roadway. This interoperability further creates new and dynamic data that results in optimizing system operations, which can result in greater opportunities for mobility or improved environmental performance. Interoperability also allows for a common experience from coast to coast, meaning that users from New York to California, from Georgia to Oklahoma through to Washington State, or across borders in North America can continue to benefit from these technologies as they travel across the Nation.
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