Architecture Reference for Cooperative and Intelligent Transportation

The Architecture Reference for Cooperative and Intelligent Transportation (ARC-IT) provides a common framework for planning, defining, and integrating intelligent transportation systems. It is a mature product that reflects the contributions of a broad cross-section of the ITS community (transportation practitioners, systems engineers, system developers, technology specialists, consultants, etc.).

ARC-IT is a reference architecture: it provides common basis for planners and engineers with differing concerns to conceive, design and implement systems using a common language as a basis for delivering ITS, but does not mandate any particular implementation. ARC-IT includes artifacts that answer concerns relevant to a large variety of stakeholders, and provides tools intended for transportation planners, regional architects and systems engineers to conceive of and develop regional architectures, and scope and develop projects.

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• Architecture contains links to all of the content inside the architecture, and describes the structure of the architecture. In particular:
  • Service Packages represent slices of the architecture that address a specific service like traffic signal control and provide the most straightforward entry into ARC-IT content.
  • Views and its sub-menus provide view-specific content; if for example you are looking for a particular information flow, or a particular communications profile, browse the relevant physical and communications sections here.
  • Methodology and its sub-menus describe the structure of the architecture: how it is built, how the artifacts within are inter-related.
  • The Security section describes how security is addressed throughout the architecture and provides links to cross-cutting security content.
• Architecture and Standard Use describes how to use ARC-IT, from the perspective of a regional architect, transportation planner or project systems engineer. It also discusses how to relate the ARC-IT communications view to standards that support deployment.
• Architecture Resources provides access to all ARC-IT content in user-downloadable forms. Notably this also includes access to our tools: RAD-IT and SET-IT, that provide you with means to customize the reference architecture according to models' rules, customizing the reference architecture to your regional or project needs. This page includes ASQ-IT to query the architecture databases for answers to common questions.
• Architecture Terminology provides those definitions that permeate these pages.
• Contact the Architecture Team gives you a direct line to the source. We want to hear from you! If you have questions, concerns or find an error (say it isn't so!) we'd like to know about it!