Converging Infrastructures

Lewis M. Branscomb is Aetna Professor in Public Policy and Corporate Management, Emeritus, at Harvard University.

Part 1 Overview - policy frameworks for ITS and the NII: assessing Federal roles; common policy concerns; the problems of success - privacy, property and transactions. Part 2 ITS requirements in the context of the NII: ITS information service content; NII support for ITS user services; metropolitan communications requirements; why build a dedicated ITS communications system?. Part 3 Technical issues: intelligent agents; international implications of ITS standards development; compatibility issues for geospatial data - the need for Federal policy. Part 4 Public/private roles and implementation issues: institutional issues in local implementation; state and local barriers to leveraging the NII; valuing rights of way in public/private infrastructure development; approaches to delivering traveller information - two case studies; market deployment of transportation information infrastructure - Siemen's European strategy.