The Advance Transition to GCM Transportation Information Center

The ADVANCE (Advanced Driver and Vehicle Advisory Navigation Concept) project is an Advanced Traveler Information System (ATIS) demonstration project located in the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois. A central facility, called the Traffic Information Center (TIC), was developed to receive and distribute traffic related information. The project is a joint effort of the Federal Highway Administration (FHWA), the Illinois Department of Transportation (IDOT), the Illinois Universities Transportation Research Consortium (composed of the University of Illinois at Chicago and Northwestern University), Motorola and the American Automobile Association. De Leuw, Cather & Company is responsible for system engineering, system integration, and assisting in project management. The major emphasis of ADVANCE has been the development of the TIC and developing an in vehicle navigation system in which vehicles would also be used as probes. The completion of the in vehicle navigation phase presented an opportunity to take the lessons learned in developing the TIC and apply them to creation of a Corridor Transportation Information Center (C-TIC) for the Gary-Chicago-Milwaukee (GCM) Priority Corridor. This paper documents that effort.