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DEPARTMENT OF TRANSPORTATION
Federal Highway Administration
[FHWA Docket No. 94-26]

 

Availability of Documentation From the National Intelligent 
Vehicle Highway Systems (IVHS) Architecture Development Program; 
Request for Participation in Public Forums

AGENCY: Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), DOT.

ACTION: Notice; request for comments.

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SUMMARY: The Department of Transportation is making publicly available 
the documentation from the first phase of the National IVHS 
Architecture Development Program. An independent Phase I Summary Report 
will be made publicly available as well. Comments on these materials 
are requested from all who choose to review them. This notice also 
announces a series of regional forums to present these first phase 
results. The comments received through this announcement and at the 
forums will influence upcoming program decisions that shape the 
National IVHS Architecture in the second and final phase of the 
program.

DATES: Comments on the documents made available through this notice 
must be received by November 21, 1994. Late comments will be considered 
to the extent practicable.
    The forums are scheduled as follows:
    1. November 7, 1994, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Seattle, Washington.
    2. November 8, 1994, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., San Francisco, 
California.
    3. November 8, 1994, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Denver, Colorado.
    4. November 10, 1994, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Atlanta, Georgia.
    5. November 10, 1994, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Los Angeles, 
California.
    6. November 15, 1994, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., College Station, 
Texas.
    7. November 15, 1994, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Washington, D.C.
    8. November 17, 1994, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Kansas City, 
Missouri.
    9. November 17, 1994, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., New York, New York.
    10. November 18, 1994, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Chicago, Illinois.
    11. November 18, 1994, 8:00 a.m. to 4:30 p.m., Boston, 
Massachusetts.

ADDRESSES: Submit written requests for the architecture documents and 
the Phase I Summary Report by October 3, 1994, to Mr. George Beronio, 
Federal Highway Administration (HTV-10), 400 Seventh Street, SW., 
Washington, DC 20590. Requests for the architecture documents must be 
accompanied by a check made payable to the FHWA in the amount of 
$225.00 as reimbursement for reproduction and shipping. There is no fee 
for the Phase I Summary Report. Please note that individual documents 
or subsets of this package of documents (other than the Phase I Summary 
Report) are not available through this announcement.
    Submit written, signed comments on the documents and Summary Report 
to the FHWA Docket No. 94-26, Room 4232, HCC-10, Office of Chief 
Counsel, Federal Highway Administration, 400 Seventh Street SW., 
Washington, DC 20590. All comments received will be available for 
examination at the above address from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m., e.t., 
Monday through Friday, except Federal holidays. Those desiring 
notification of receipt of comments must include a self-addressed, 
stamped postcard.

FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mr. George Beronio, Office of Traffic 
Management and Intelligent Vehicle Highway Systems Applications, phone 
(202) 366-6111, fax (202) 366-8712, Federal Highway Administration, 
HTV-10, 400 Seventh Street, SW., Washington, DC 20590. Office hours are 
from 7:45 a.m. to 4:15 p.m., e.t., Monday through Friday, except 
Federal holidays.

SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The goal of the National IVHS Architecture 
Development Program is to document, by the summer of 1996, a nationwide 
framework for implementation of IVHS. The architecture will help 
achieve national compatibility of IVHS technologies and systems while 
allowing for regional flexibility in building actual systems. This 
national architecture will also integrate the broad range of services 
available to users of IVHS to achieve efficiencies in the use of 
communications and infrastructure resources, while maintaining enough 
openness in the system to foster a rich market for products and 
services that allows for innovation, expansion, and modernization over 
time.
    Teams headed by Hughes Aircraft Company, Loral Federal Systems 
Group, Rockwell, and Westinghouse Electric Corporation were selected in 
September 1993 to independently develop four alternative system 
concepts, or ``architectures,'' for a nationwide IVHS. The program is 
proceeding in two phases. Phase I, which will conclude in December 
1994, has involved the definition and preliminary analysis of 
alternative concepts. It is the documentation products of this effort 
that are being made available through this announcement. The most 
promising concepts will be continued into an 18-month Phase II, which 
will focus on detailed analysis of these concepts and resolution of 
differences such that a single consensus architecture is produced and 
documented.
    A complete set of 12 documents from each of the four study teams 
participating in this first phase of the architecture development will 
be made publicly available in mid-October 1994. A Phase I Summary 
Report containing educational background material, overviews of the 
four architectures, and additional detail on the implications of each 
approach will also be made available shortly thereafter.
    The Phase I products available through this announcement are as 
follows: (1) Mission Definition, a discussion of each team's goals and 
philosophy, with a technical discussion of operational constraints each 
team perceives; (2) Vision Statement, a non-technical narrative 
depiction of the teams' conception of their architectures over the next 
20 years in urban, inter-urban, and rural contexts; (3) Logical 
Architecture, a set of diagrams and textual statements describing the 
relationship between each architecture's functions and its information 
needs; (4) Physical Architecture, a further set of diagrams and 
specifications that transpose the logical architecture components onto 
the physical systems that make up IVHS; (5) Traceability Matrix, which 
ensures that all required high-level IVHS services are accounted for at 
the lowest levels of the architecture (both logical and physical); (6) 
Evolutionary Deployment Strategy, a three-tiered set of temporal 
snapshots (at 5, 10, and 20 years) of the architecture, and how the 
teams envision the progression from the present towards their final 
vision at the 20-year mark; (7) Architecture Evaluation Plan, which 
describes the method(s) used by each team in the analysis of its 
architecture; (8) Initial Cost Analysis, an attempt at pricing the 
various ways in which IVHS will be delivered through products and 
services, including a market analysis and suggestion of how ``service 
packages'' could be marketed; (9) Feasibility Study (including risk 
analysis) exploring the various technical and institutional risks to 
which each architecture is subject, and how each team proposes to 
mitigate these risks; (10) Analysis of Data Loading Requirements, 
exploring the wire and wireless communications demands on the 
architecture; (11) Initial Performance and Benefits Summary, a 
discussion of the ways in which each architecture contributes to the 
broader goals of IVHS; and (12) Preliminary Evaluation Results Summary, 
detailing the results of analysis, in particular the simulation 
modeling.
    DOT is interested in the opinions of the public, industry, all 
levels of government, public and private transportation agencies, and 
other stakeholder organizations who review these documents. 
Specifically, DOT is interested in comments regarding the technical 
feasibility, user acceptability, and general viability of the four 
proposed architectures. Those who wish to provide comments only on the 
Phase I Summary Report are encouraged to do so as well.
    The entire set of documents (except the Phase I Summary Report) can 
be obtained for $225.00, to cover the cost of reproduction and 
shipping. Those who wish to view the documents at no cost may do so at 
multiple locations throughout the United States; for dates of 
availability and locations nearest to you, contact the FHWA at the 
address listed above under FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT. The Phase I 
Summary Report will be sent in late October, free of charge, to all who 
respond to this announcement. The Phase I Summary Report will also be 
available to all who attend the public forums.
    A series of 11 public forums will be held during the second and 
third weeks of November 1994 to present the architectural approaches 
developed in the first phase of the architecture program, and to allow 
for stakeholder input based on the information presented. Dates and 
general locations of these forums are listed above under DATES. More 
information on these regional forums, including specific locations, may 
be obtained from the FHWA contact listed above.
    The comments received as a result of this announcement, as well as 
the information obtained during the upcoming series of public forums, 
will be used in the process of selecting which of the four architecture 
concepts will continue into Phase II of the program. This second phase 
will begin in early 1995.

    Authority: 23 U.S.C. 315; 49 CFR 1.48; Pub. L. 102-240, Secs. 
6051-6059, 105 Stat. 1914, 2189-2195.

    Issued on: September 15, 1994.

Rodney E. Slater,
Federal Highway Administrator.
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