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IEEE TO OFFER WORKSHOP ON COMMUNICATIONS STANDARDS FOR TRANSPORTATION INCIDENTS IN JUNE
Workshop
Will Address Lessons Learned in Applying IEEE 1512™ Standard
in Washington, D.C., New York City and the States of Utah and
Washington
Contact:
Ann Lorscheider, IEEE P1512.1™ Working Group Chair
+1 704 342 6814, alorscheider@dot.state.nc.us
or
Karen McCabe, +1 732 562 3824, k.mccabe@ieee.org
For Release:
Immediate
PISCATAWAY,
N.J., USA, 17 March 2004
Now that application of IEEE 1512 ™ traffic incident communication
standards is well underway, the IEEE 1512 Working Group will host
a workshop on 15 and 16 June in Salt Lake City, Utah, on the lessons
learned in their deployment. The workshop will be preceded on
14 June by a one-day working group meeting to continue the development
of these standards, which promote effective communications among
agencies and service providers in traffic incidents.
The workshop
will include reports from those who have begun to put the standard
in place in Washington, D.C., New York City, and the states of
Utah and Washington. It also will include presentations from those
involved in related data dictionaries at the Department of Justice.
To register for the workshop visit:
http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc32/imwg/mtgs/mtgpage.html
The workshop
will give attendees an understanding of what IEEE 1512 standards
contain and how to apply them. Attendees will also provide feedback
on how to make the existing IEEE 1512 standards more viable, and
what is needed in the next standard in the series, IEEE P1512.4(TM),
which will address message sets for in-vehicle needs.
"This
will be the fourth IEEE 1512 workshop," says Ann Lorscheider,
Chair of the IEEE 1512.1 Working Group and Metrolina Regional
Intelligent Transportation Systems Engineer, North Carolina Department
of Transportation. "As with our previous workshops, we want
to help those in the U.S. emergency community understand how to
use these standards so they can respond to traffic emergencies
more effectively."
"Each
deployment is unique, so the workshop will explore the best practices
that have emerged from each one that can be applied elsewhere.
The workshop will also seek to help those who plan to integrate
their incident communications using IEEE 1512 by addressing such
topics as setting user requirements and sharing data among agencies
of all sizes."
The Washington,
D.C., deployment involves multiple data systems, while the one
in New York City integrates incident management systems that exchange
information among communication centers and in-vehicle equipment.
The Utah deployment integrates six computer-aided dispatch systems,
and the one in Washington State integrates incident management
with various traveler information systems.
IEEE 1512
Standards
The IEEE 1512 standards effort began in 1997 to foster efficient
communications in traffic incidents by creating common message
sets so all parties involved interact effectively. These standards
aim to reduce congestion, secondary collisions, and the time it
takes to clear an incident, as well as to improve interagency
coordination and safety for travelers and emergency personnel.
The IEEE 1512 standards family includes:
- The
base standard, IEEE 1512-2000™, "Standard for Common
Incident Management Message Sets for use by Emergency Management
Centers," which addresses message sets for traffic management,
public safety and hazardous materials incident response in general.
- IEEE
1512.1™-2003, which provides traffic management message
sets for transportation and public safety agencies in transportation
incident management.
- IEEE
P1512.2™, which provides message sets for interagency coordination,
dispatching and asset management for transportation and public
safety agencies.
- IEEE
1512.3-2002™, which provides message sets for the management
of hazardous materials in transportation incidents.
The IEEE 1512
family of standards is being developed by the IEEE Incident Management
Working Group (1512) sponsored by the IEEE Vehicular Technology
Committee. The IEEE 1512 program is being done under the auspices
of the US Department of Transportation. For more information about
IEEE Incident Management Working Group (P1512), visit: http://grouper.ieee.org/groups/scc32/imwg/index.html.
About the
IEEE Standards Association
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body, develops consensus standards through an open process that
brings diverse parts of an industry together. It has a portfolio
of more than 870 completed standards and more than 400 in development.
IEEE-SA promotes the engineering process by creating, developing,
integrating, sharing and applying knowledge about electro- and
information technologies and sciences for the benefit of humanity
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http://standards.ieee.org/.
About the
IEEE
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Through its members, the organization is a leading authority on
areas ranging from aerospace, computers and telecommunications
to biomedicine, electric power and consumer electronics. The IEEE
produces nearly 30 percent of the world's literature in the electrical
and electronics engineering, computing and control technology
fields. This nonprofit organization also sponsors or cosponsors
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about the IEEE can be found at http://www.ieee.org/.
IEEE 1512,
1512.1, 1512.2 and 1512.3 are trademarks of the IEEE. All other
names or product names are the trademarks, service marks or registered
trademarks of their respective holders.
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